ABSTRACT
The author's approach to teaching is rooted in the person. This carries certain conditions: to see and treat each student as a person and to be a person first, a teacher second. The author employs the tools of the arts and humanities: seminar discussions, lectures, board work, oral and written examinations, recitals and recitations, commentaries, and close readings. The readings he assigns are almost exclusively comprised of primary-source books, essays, and film, with respect for translations. The author seeks three teaching outcomes in his students and himself: content, skills, and dispositions. He also wonders what a teaching income might amount to that is more than a salary. The author understands the person as a whole being who cannot be reduced to a mere sum of its parts; they are a “who,” never a “what.” This is the truest content of teaching.
