A teacher has great power to demonstrate good endings, to give the student a way to transition from one path to another, one level to another, one teacher to another – or to no teacher.
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The currency of trust is best served when we do more and promise less. April first is a good day to consider the limitations of seriousness. Teachers, myself included, often take our work seriously in many ways, perhaps one or two ways more than we must. It is hard to stay serious without also falling into rigid thinking about the subject, the students, and oneself, and a [...] Teaching is a conversation. It occurs at many levels, and about many topics. What happens when the student’s part of this conversation turns to adoration and worship of the teacher? That is, what happens to the teacher? To teach a student deeply we must study them as well. We develop in our minds composite pictures of who they are, what they can do, what they want, how they excel, what they are afraid of, where they stumble, and so on. The moment you realize When it comes to deep work, our students are mirrors. In them we see our past stumbles, the traps we avoided, the ones we triggered. The harder work is to also see our current challenges. |
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