Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students. -Matthew Cheney
Respect students as human beings. -Matthew Cheney
Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher. -Matthew Cheney
We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit . -Matthew Cheney