Eric:

Teaching should be logically consistent with what we do.  I find that many teachers ask their students to do things that they themselves would never want to do or would never have any need to do.  The system drives us to this level of stupidity, I think.  If we are writers, then our teaching about writing should follow from that, and our methods of instruction should be logically consistent with how we write … or how we learn, how we art, how we do whatever it is we do…

Teaching should be about that which is important.  This shouldn’t need to be said, but unfortunately must be said.  We spend far too much time in the classroom “stressing out” both ourselves and our students over things that don’t really matter, so much so that everyone loses sight of the things that do matter.  As a result, students walk away having no real understanding of the larger picture, of the major concerns of each discipline, of the connections and influences among the disciplines, or how these things fit into life and its living.

I’d write something pithy on this, but I can’t think of a better way of putting it.  Just read his whole post.