"External tools (computers?) of power have occasional utility in teaching, but they have no substitute for authority, the authority that comes from the teacher's inner life. The clue is in the world itself, which has authority at its core. Authority is granted to people who perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. When teachers depend on coercive powers of law or technique, they have no authority at all." (Palmer, 33)