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what a student needs most from a teacher
Posted: May 6th, 2005, 8:23 am
by Whitebird Sings
somewhere i read
that what a student
needs most
from a teacher
is to be convinced
of the power hidden
in the student's being
and that they can
reach it
seems right
Posted: May 6th, 2005, 9:25 am
by panta rhei
somehow i know
that this is true
!
Posted: June 7th, 2005, 11:20 am
by e_dog
what a student needs most
from a teacher
is to get the false impression
that they can do anything
if they set their mind at work
Posted: June 7th, 2005, 12:26 pm
by Zlatko Waterman
What a student can best make use of from a teacher is a genuine apprenticeship.
This is why the wealthy, who have the greatest number of choices in educational modality ( as in everything else) choose to learn from personal tutors. The "home schooling" movement among the unwealthy is another version of the private tutorial . . .
Unfortunately, in public ( and many private) educational institutions, many rules, protocols and measurements stand between the student and the teacher in this regard. The formation of a genuine, disciplined apprenticeship becomes nearly impossible under these conditions.
The best writing about education, and the best "systems"
( fortunately, they aren't systems) advocated in them I have seen are Newman's "The Idea of a University" and "My Music, My Life" by Ravi Shankar:
Shankar:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~achatt1/Bio/ravisankar.html
Newman:
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/
( the best chapter in Newman's book is "Knowledge Its Own End")
Zlatko