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?

I don’t feel identified with herself criticism because I don’t think that I am different from my students probably I am older than them and I know more but my ambition is to help them as much as possible also, I want to improve my knowledge in order to get a better education in my student and try to give them a meaningful learning. Try to develop their cognitive ideas, affective area, and their manner. For that reason I don’t share her diagnosis because I think that when you feel that you are bigger than other persons is when you lose your humanity.

All the teachers have different ways to set themselves apart. Some of these ways are good but others are really bad. For example some of them act like military and they only share information with their students.

Others never establish a good rapport with their students and they never take care of their students, because they never take in to account their students’ needs.