A good lesson to learn. Teaching someone is a skill in itself, but teaching someone how to learn and discover on their own is teaching at another level. While it looks easy, it is much harder. But the payoff lasts a lifetime for the student.
In our country, at least, we are constantly reminded that there is "a syllabus" and "text books" and "examinations" -- and teachers, pressured partly by parents, tend to teach to the exam. This degenerates to teaching kids how to regurgitate content as "correct answers" to questions, many of which are already known! Problem solving is not really a premium activity. However, I am fortunate to know several teachers who do exactly what I did -- learning how to learn. Thanks, Robert for your input.
Sir, I still call you Sir because I consider you one of the three best teachers I've been privileged to have had. I don't know if it's appropriate to say this here, but the other two are Ms Peterson, and Mr Gass. Thank you for opening my mind to knowledge as opposed to filling it with a lot useless facts and dates that I never never had any use for later in life.
A good lesson to learn. Teaching someone is a skill in itself, but teaching someone how to learn and discover on their own is teaching at another level. While it looks easy, it is much harder. But the payoff lasts a lifetime for the student.
In our country, at least, we are constantly reminded that there is "a syllabus" and "text books" and "examinations" -- and teachers, pressured partly by parents, tend to teach to the exam. This degenerates to teaching kids how to regurgitate content as "correct answers" to questions, many of which are already known! Problem solving is not really a premium activity. However, I am fortunate to know several teachers who do exactly what I did -- learning how to learn. Thanks, Robert for your input.
Sir, I still call you Sir because I consider you one of the three best teachers I've been privileged to have had. I don't know if it's appropriate to say this here, but the other two are Ms Peterson, and Mr Gass. Thank you for opening my mind to knowledge as opposed to filling it with a lot useless facts and dates that I never never had any use for later in life.
Thanks for that ego boost! You should share some of your writing here too. Would love to make this interactive