Teaching philosophy (1)

Riffing off my mentor, KT, I come up with a new first paragraph for my would-be teaching philosophy:

Teaching and being taught are reciprocal, as are writing and reading. In the language and literature classroom, where the complementary arts of reading and writing are the main content, students have a unique opportunity to give voice their own questions and values, to seek interpretive meaning and to provide organized composition to their thoughts -- in short, they learn to think like literature teachers. We teachers, on the other hand, learn to live with the incompleteness of our readings, and learn to let our students speak for themselves -- in other words, we remain, essentially, students.

That was tortured, but still, I think it hits the same note as KT's first paragraph. Will touch up in the morning.