"Follow the learner and the learning will follow." People that work with me know I often over-do it with slogan-like language.  But usually whats going on with that is that I see a particular recurring pattern of flawed decision-making going on around me (usually in myself as well) and the slogan emerges  as a way to avoid my having to listen to myself argue its underlying logic in conversation after conversation. "Follow the learner and the learning will follow." The strongest counter argument to this one that I can think of is one of my favorite quotes from Emerson (but a quote which I think describes me when I am at my worst as a teacher):  “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”  But Emerson’s thinking, here, is profoundly flawed to the point of being insidious.  It is seductive as an idea only because of it’s resemblance to an American football analogy that is profoundly CORRECT:  “Throw the ball not to where the runner IS, but to where the runner WILL BE.” Follow the learner.  Read the runner’s trajectory, encourage the runner along that trajectory, and make sure that the ball is there for the runner to catch. And alway err on the side of making the runner stumble forward to catch the ball, not backwards. "Make the runner stumble forward."