What a teacher is...(Wry ?)
Jul 04, 2003 02:37 AM
by Morten Nymann Olesen
Hi all of you,
My views are only views and that is a fact:
Here is a little something:
What a teacher is
The world is full of teachers, people who collect disciples or
who in various ways instruct others.
Now the wonderful thing about all this is that very few people
ask what the teacher knows about teaching. The act of behaving
like a teacher, or rather like people think a teacher would
behave, establishes them.
If a teacher is not what he appears to be, how is he or she to be
defined?
Try this: an ancient statement which is found in teaching
materials such as Tale of the City of Brass, in the book "Thousand
and One Nights":
I AM
A real teacher was asked how it was that he could teach, and he
answered:
I am what you will be:
What you are, I once was.
Now the readers must by now I think be certain about that I do like Wry very much.
Wry previously stated in an answer to Bill Meredith here at Theos-Talk that:
"Also, everyone, I am the complete emergence of Morton from his cocoon. I am
not sure what kind of moth he going to be, but, quite honestly, this is a
phenomena I have never seen the likes of, and I will need to wait and see
how things unfold before I proceed any further, as I will have to make
compensations for this not necessarily unfavorable, but very bizarre,
development, and factor this into my future activity."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/12383
So I think I am entitle to ask, what does Wry know about teaching ?
Even if I am a Cocoon and a bizarre case !
On M. Sufilight - who I am:
I am not a teacher because I am not presently at a level where I can teach
you all at the distance. But the stories I write - are wellmeant.
Wry was right on saying, that the story about "Two Swords" is about emotions.
Now I degrade myself a little - and let us see what happens...
from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...
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