[Here] lies the core of what I have learned in the late years of my teaching career. It is that teachers must find ways of getting students to produce (in words, pictures, sounds, diagrams, objects, or landscapes) what students and teachers honestly admire. I believe I am not deluding myself about what happens in Third Way classes. No student does well all the time; but every student who carries out the program--respected and supported as an individual possessing the unique and complex experience that is every human being's lot on earth--moves other persons in delight or terror or sympathy at times. He [or she] is capable of seeing the world, human and natural, in a way valuable to others. And capable of learning from others even more sharply.

    by Ken Macrorie     in 1970