"Teachers can stop being the servants of a syllabus or curriculum produced somewhere else and take charge of a course or program of studies they have shaped out of their convictions of what is truly important and what they want students to remember and be able to use months and years later. We identify our passions within our subject area to separate what we care deeply about from what we are less excited about. We teach wholeheartedly those things that open up pathways to knowledge and engagement within our discipline for learners wo have not yet come to appreciate them. We take courage from our deep interest in some things to pay less attention to other things, and we exercise a teacher's most solemn responsibility in choosing what to teach and what to ignore or pass over lightly."

- (Fried, p24)