The Skillful Teacher

Acknowledgments
My greatest acknowledgment must go to those various college teach-
ers who have come up to me at conferences and workshops to tell me
how useful they found the first edition of this book. Their encour-
agement provided the motivation for me to write this second edition.
Mary Hess of Luther Seminary in St. Paul was generous enough to
read and critique the first draft of the manuscript. For two years Mary
was a member of a faculty reflection group at Luther Seminary for
which I was an external consultant, and I am honored that she would
devote her precious time to helping me make this a more honest
book. I know that thanks to editors often appear ritualistic, but I hope
that my gratitude for David Brightman’s supportive yet critical per-
spective is read as genuine. As always, David was full of useful ideas
and provocative questions that helped me reshape the second edition
of this book. Molly and Colin Brookfield, along with Kim Miller, were
always generous and understanding in allowing their father and hus-
band the time and space needed to rewrite the whole manuscript from
scratch; even when the writing had to fit round the recording of our
family band’s (The 99ers) first two albums—“On Southport Pier”
(2004) and “Bob’s Your Uncle” (2005).
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