What is your response to the idea of teachers as facilitators of instruction, a ‘guide on the side’ instead of the historically accepted concept of the teacher as ‘sage on the stage’. Explain

Consider the following quote prior to posting a response to the assigned topic.

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students.  What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”

Paulo Friere, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change.

What is your response to the idea of teachers as facilitators of instruction, a ‘guide on the side’ instead of the historically accepted concept of the teacher as ‘sage on the stage’.

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