Completing the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi/) and the Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory (http://www.labr.net/paei/paei.html) provided me with food for reflection about my values related to teaching and the realities of the context in which I support students. My health care students must learn skills. These skills must have a base of knowledge that can guide application and problem solving in new situations. But knowledge and skill alone can only deliver task completion, not compassionate care giving. That requires personal development and growth. So in my work with students the focus is sometimes transmission of information, other times it is apprenticeship to mastery, and other times it is nurturing and developing attitudes and awareness. This reflects the progressive, behaviorist and humanistic philosophies of adult education. One ‘truth’ I know is that it all weaves together, and each student will make the connections differently. Another truth I have come to see is that both health care and education are relational practices. Another way to say that is that who I am with my students is more important that what I know- they will not receive the content I want to give them without a context of trust.