Education and the Inward Teacher
The teaching-learning process is a peculiarly human activity; we are not the only creatures to teach their young, but we humans depend almost entirely on learning from others how to make our way in the world. Very little comes to us solely through instinct, and even where we have innate capacities, such as the capacity for speech or learning to walk, we must be taught how to use them. Erik Erikson calls us the teaching species, rather than the learning one, but it is impossible to be one without being the other. Teaching and learning make up a single intricate process of interchange in relationship, interplay between people and with content � the transmission of information, skills, processes, but also of values, of what Erikson calls a world image and style of fellowship. We teach because we need to be needed, he says, and because things are kept alive by being taught, logic by being practiced, ideas by being professed.
Because we must learn virtually everything we know, the image of the teacher is a powerful one. We reserve the word for people whose actions have the greatest meaning for us: religious leaders, philosophers, scientists, writers, artists, great political leaders, social activists and liberators � when we want to speak of the depth of their impact on us, we stress their roles as conduits of knowledge and wisdom, as teachers. If the truth makes us free, our liberators are teachers.
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Because we must learn virtually everything we know, the image of the teacher is a powerful one. We reserve the word for people whose actions have the greatest meaning for us: religious leaders, philosophers, scientists, writers, artists, great political leaders, social activists and liberators � when we want to speak of the depth of their impact on us, we stress their roles as conduits of knowledge and wisdom, as teachers. If the truth makes us free, our liberators are teachers.
Education and the Inward Teacher
The teaching-learning process is a peculiarly human activity; we are not the only creatures to teach their young, but we humans depend almost entirely on learning from others how to make our way in the world. Very little comes to us solely through instinct, and even where we have innate capacities, such as the capacity for speech or learning to walk, we must be taught how to use them. Erik Erikson calls us the teaching species, rather than the learning one, but it is impossible to be one without being the other. Teaching and learning make up a single intricate process of interchange in relationship, interplay between people and with content � the transmission of information, skills, processes, but also of values, of what Erikson calls a world image and style of fellowship. We teach because we need to be needed, he says, and because things are kept alive by being taught, logic by being practiced, ideas by being professed.
Because we must learn virtually everything we know, the image of the teacher is a powerful one. We reserve the word for people whose actions have the greatest meaning for us: religious leaders, philosophers, scientists, writers, artists, great political leaders, social activists and liberators � when we want to speak of the depth of their impact on us, we stress their roles as conduits of knowledge and wisdom, as teachers. If the truth makes us free, our liberators are teachers.
Because we must learn virtually everything we know, the image of the teacher is a powerful one. We reserve the word for people whose actions have the greatest meaning for us: religious leaders, philosophers, scientists, writers, artists, great political leaders, social activists and liberators � when we want to speak of the depth of their impact on us, we stress their roles as conduits of knowledge and wisdom, as teachers. If the truth makes us free, our liberators are teachers.
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| BN ID: | 2940149207077 |
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| Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
| Publication date: | 05/13/2014 |
| Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #278 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 30 |
| File size: | 145 KB |
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