JANE TOMPKINS GOALS VRS WILFREDO GOALS

Jane Tompkins discovered that her goal as a teacher had been to put on “performance,” thus distancing herself from students and subject (pp.28-29).  Do you identify with her self-criticism? If so, do you share Tompkins’s diagnosis of fear as the driving force behind this distancing? In what ways other than “performance” do teachers set themselves apart?


With the passing of the years things have changed a lot and today the difficulties had before are very different today, perhaps student needs are the same but their contexts are not therefore the objectives have to be different. I was taught in the old school and now I teach in the new school and things are different. My goals are to change the selfless life that students live a life of purpose, teach them that a life without purpose is pointless and the only thing that is in a person who does not has purposes is badness.