The Miracle WorkerBlase Masserant

Teaching the student to learn

“Blindness”•Extrinsic motivation

•Led by the teacher

“Watershe

d moment”Learns to see

“Vision”•Intrinsic motivation

•Led by the student

“I simply go on and keep doing what I've done and have faith that inside she's... that inside is waiting, like water underground.”

Blindness Led by the teacher Extrinsic motivation Driven by necessity Rousseau’s concept

of natural education

Watershed moment Socrates’ idea of the soul Plato’s allegory of the cave

“Helen, the chick has to come out of its shell sometime. You come out too.”

Vision Led by the student Intrinsic motivation Driven by desire Plato & Locke’s

ideas of making learning a form of play

Anne Sullivan “The Miracle Worker”

Patient and determined Has student’s interest at

heart Personal one-on-one

relationship Can empathize with student Tailors education to the

student Shapes the educational

environment Utilizes student’s natural

needs as a tool Unleashes student’s desire

to learn