The final chapter described a connected teacher and education.  The institutional way of teaching is to assume the teacher deposits knowledge into the learners bank.  This form of teaching is called banking and gives the learner a sense of learned helplessness because once the deposits stop the learning is over.  People often grow a lot less when school is over for them and really learning should be embraced and happening all your life.  The opposite of the banking form of teaching is the connected or midwife teacher.  These teachers are very transparent with the process of thinking and finding answers.  A lot of times banker teachers only present the polished version of what they have found and will not disclose the rocky road they took to get there.  If students see how to travel these rocky roads to knowledge land they can travel it more and more for themselves.  This is what midwife teaching stresses. Lets learn how to teach our selves!  Instead of  focusing on the product we focus on the process.  Truth is not a tool for knowledge, the road to truth is a tool for further knowledge.  These midwife teachers want to draw knowledge out of students rather than give it to them.  they value every one's opinion and truth and create a culture of respect so that students learn from each other's differences.  Mistakes are not to scar the learner but provide parameters for where knowledge lives.  So mistakes must be embraced.  A midwife's class room might be arranged in a circle and have a lot of dialogue.  Dialogue can even get challenging between speakers because it helps you grow.  Since women are trying to find their voice and vocalize it, the classroom that encourages dialogue will develop women through education rather than keep them silent.  Even the knowers who remain silent will be more encouraged to speak up in this environment and eventually turn them into knowers who speak!  I liked this book!  I think I will need to think a little more about myself with this but believe that I would set up a class that would embrace the journey of learning rather than the product to empower the work and effort it takes to be knowers.