It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me. My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always open to correction. The group who think they know about teaching try to find out more about it in order to tell the teachers about teaching - and that is total reversal.
Teachers are the ones who do it and, therefore, are the ones who know about it.
It's worth getting teachers to build on what they know, to build on what questions they have, because that's what matters - what teachers know and what questions they have. And so anybody who wants to be a helpful researcher should value what the teachers know and help them develop that. Changingness, a reliance on process rather than upon static knowledge, is the only thing that makes any sense as a goal for education in the modern world. Tell him I'll drop by to see him anytime.