Find the Human

A Pedagogy for Teachers of Life

By Thomas DeVere Wolsey

Thomas & Susan from Holsted. Photo by A. Svensson

A teacher I spoke with yesterday told me that his approach to pedagogy is “Find the Human,[1]” and it is the title of this article because it neatly captures what I learned. As children and young adults find themselves lost in the bureaucracy of school, punished until they believe they are not worth another human’s attention, this…