[TPIN] "teaching"...or lack thereof

[Scott, Donald M.]

A couple of observations that I have not seen contributed to this discussion:

Teaching and "being a teacher" are different things;  or. to say it another way, there are bad "teachers". good teachers and REALLY GREAT teachers.  There's more to teaching than just standing in front of a captive audience of students and distributing pearls of wisdom,  just as there's more to good trumpet playing than just sitting in the chair and covering the notes.

Also, in my view, there's a large difference between "teaching" and learning.  A teacher cannot put knowledge or skills into someone else's head -- students must learn, individually.  I think of "teaching" as a matter of coaching and motivating the student to develop his/her own skills and knowledge base, and to go about it in the right way.

Don Scott




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