• Key Silent Way ideas: what am I doing the Ss can do for myself, and awareness is educable.
• In evaluating something, whether positive or negative, consider “where’s the evidence.”
• Donald Freeman was Bev’s biggest influence.
• Mike wrote a book on the experiential learning cycle

Bev described the concentric circles of language education, a la Silent Way. It is the learners’ job to learn the language. It is the teacher’s job not to teach the language but to teach the students how to learn the language. And it is the teacher trainer’s job not to teach how to teach language, but how to learn to teach the language. I think I’m getting that close to right. [I made this pretty little chart, all by myself, just as I got Milt’s email saying he would probably be too busy to see me before I go to Mexico. It is a chart made teary-eyed and broken-hearted. Feck.