Guru's Handbook

Do you know how to set your conclusions aside?
Can you teach this?
When trying to understand something new, a conclusion in hand can limit what you see to only what supports your conclusion. We often are blind to what is in front of us, to occurrences that do not fit into our world conception. [...]

Sometimes you teach without title
This is still teaching
Labels are useful so that we may point at a thing and say to someone else, “that there, that is what I mean.” Teaching is a process. When we label a process we must necessarily simplify the thing as we attempt to freeze it into a moment, [...]

What conclusions did you draw today about the deeper issues you intend to teach? About how things really are? Did you look at something in the world and say, “aha, so that’s how it is”?
And today, when you teach, what will your students learn from you in the reflection of your new certainties?
The [...]

I was a young teacher, not paying attention, and I went too far, even over my student’s objections, and I sprained his ankle. He limped home. Every teacher makes mistakes. For me, that day, mine was to damage my student.
For a caring and devoted teacher this moment can be agonizing. As a [...]