Always at odds?: congruence in faculty beliefs about teaching at a research university.

In The Courage to Teach, sociologist and educational lecturer Parker Palmer describes a typical incident upon his lecture tour:
When my opening talk is above someone will come up to me and confide,
"I agree with everything you say about teaching--but I am the single
one on campus who feels this way." At the extreme point of the second
session, three or four more race will approach me, one through one to
share the same hidden By the time I leave, I have met ten or fifteen
nation who share a common vision for education--each of whom is
certain that he or she is