We are all children at heart, and the mind the teacher.
Two bananas grow in a rose bush and one of them is naked.
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The truth is a beautiful flower that smells bad and harbors deadly ticksâŚ
Edit: pick me pick me!
Two penguins were in the kitchen doing dishes. The first penguin turned to the second and said, âWhat is truth?â The second slipped on a soap bubble and broke his leg.
Never mind the teacher with the heart of a child in his hand.
If the will of the wheel is to turn, then the coconut laden European swallow will cry, âNever more!â
What a sad state of affairs it would be if the mind able to teach. Can you even imagine the chaos? Perhaps it is a good thing that we can completely ignore our minds.
Indeed, and the idea we all have the mind of a teacher is demonstrably false as well. Iâve even met people who chose teaching as a profession who had no aptitude whatsoever for it. Good teachers are a rare commodity, even in the teaching profession. Iâd imagine most people outside of the profession have little clue what it takes.
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The teachers also keeps learning from his students,if a teachers treats students as shit and fill them with all crap he ever had learnt then I wonât recommend that teacher to anybody.
Yeah a good teacher is infact a rare teacher and the world needs really good teachers who know psycology of student and never stop learning.
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My daughter had a teacher for first grade who was outstanding. It was a class of 25 six to seven year olds. When these kids were graduating from high school, they had a reunion party with this much beloved teacher. All but one attended (because he was half way around the world at the time). I think thatâs a fine testament to her impact on their lives.
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Iâm going to throw a cog in the machinery? Good teachers do not teach at all. Good students learn.
While doing âTeacher Trainings,â in a past life in the USA, this was one of the premises of my presentation. I would get a volunteer from the audience to come up to the stage. I would play the role of the student and I would have the âprofessional teacherâ who was attending the seminar, teach me to pick up a chalkboard eraser, book, or some object. Just to make the exercise as easy as it could be, all they had to do was teach me to pick it up. Then I would spend the next 3 to 5 minutes ignoring them. Picking my teeth, primping, dusting off my clothes, turning around and talking to the imaginary person behind me, or tap my fingers on the desk and sing to myself.
I would always ask them, âAre you a bad teacher?â I would ask the audience, âIs he, she, a bad teacher?â Then I would ask if anyone else wanted to try? I never got a second volunteer.
My assertion was, âThere is no such thing as a teacher. It only exists as a job title.â From the Tao Tae Ching there is a proverb, âWhen the student is ready, the teacher appears.â
It is lucky for us that the human child is a knowledge seeking machine. (In most cases.) And that makes us feel like teachers. But what of the students that do not fit the mold? What is the difference?
The difference is in the concept of âTeacher.â Teacher is not a thing. It is a relationship you have with the world around you. Anything and anyone can be your teacher. It can be your teacher because you are seeking something, and you are willing to learn. You are curious and so you engage with the subject or person in a âTeaching/Learningâ relationship.
Teaching is a relationship and a good teacher knows how to reach his or her students, connect with them, and facilitate the relationship through the dissemination of information. If you think about the best teachers you ever had, they were probably individuals who were enthusiastic and amazed about the subjects they taught. They wanted to share with you the secrets they had learned and the amazing things in their field of study. They were energized by their jobs. They didnât just show up to work and regurgitate information from a textbook. They had a passion for what they were doing and that passion, energy, curiosity, and willingness to share were contagious.
Teachers do not fill the heads of children with crap. Teachers need to know nothing about the psychology of students. (I said this for a very specific reason. As soon as you begin playing psychological games with a student, you are likely to be found out and that will destroy your relationship. Donât play psychologist. That is manipulation. Instead, there is a way to let all you have learned naturally flow through your personality. The psychology becomes a part of who you are, and it shows up without effort of manipulation. A student who feels manipulated will resist.) Teachers need a passion for the subjects they teach and for the jobs they do. They need to love what they are doing. If they do not love what they are doing, they are doing it the wrong way. The greatest thing you can learn from a teacher is how to lean. How to be curious. How to ask questions. I probably donât remember even a quarter of the stuff I learned in school. I still remember lessons I learned from my favorite teachers. I remember their encouragement and our interactions. Itâs not about the information. It is all about the relationship.
Finally, some people have the ability to learn, regardless of how bad the teacher is. I have had the pleasure of learning from a few of these dipshits in my life. I have two teacher horror stories from my university years. But the post is long enough.
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Lets replace some cogs in our machinary.
Really,Really!
They can choose to fill the minds of students with crap or in other words they can subconciously say things about nazism,pornography,religion fundamentalism.
And saying it doesnât exist is a joke.
They can can can.
We need good teachers.
Its a job.
Have you had some lectures in your life 2-3 hour ling and ended up learning nothing because thr teacher was busy explaining his life to students rather than topic.
We need a teacher who knows teaching aptitude(including psycology of students).
Lets ask you question.
If the backbencher would just start cracking better jokes in class what would you do?
How do you make sure the student feel u know more than them?
Are u able to solve homework yourself that you giv as assignment?
Can you crack jokes to make things interesting?
What if the student is not ready,the teacher disappears?
He should be able to make the lecture interesting,why should he?
If he gets paid!
He knows the best of humor to make class fun,because he is a teacher(ideally).
Who said teacher needs to play psycological games with students,you missed the point.
A good teacher should know when his students are not focused and the proper dialogue.
Psycology isnât mind reading like a thought reading fiction,its just a simple observation of tje student e.g some people can play better with kids while some people are alien to child language(talking abt 8-9 year old)
That is called self learning and the capacity to learn itself.
I was telling that a teacher can be way better and imaginative than books cause he is more of a book himself.
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Why would I want to be a pedant? I donât need to know more than the students. Why wouldnât I listen to the students and find out what they know, how they know it where the information came from, was it reliable?
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The answers are in the teacherâs manual. This is no great task. Do you imagine yourself superior or special because you can solve a problem? Wow! Someone does not know how to connect with his or her students. (You need to read againâŚ;. I asserted, 'The best teachers were passionate about their subjects." Do you think a passionate person would not know the answers to homework problems. Your questions are inane.
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If the back bencher began cracking jokes, what would I do? Laugh probably! If it was a good joke. If it wasnât, I would probably give him a thumbs down. His jokes do not change the requirements of the course, the homework, or the projects. Frankly, I have found that asking the jokesters if they need help to be very effective. I also find approaching them before class or after class and asking them if they are okay, to be useful. Are you joking because you need my help. Are you not understanding? I offer assistance. I donât really have problems with Jokesters, I like them. My issues were always with the passive-aggressive little shits. With them, I just learned to make very clear instructions and get a very clear understanding of what was expected. Then they didnât come back at me with their passive-aggressive BS. Different teachers, different teaching styles, different problems. Do you love what you do? If not, you are in the wrong profession.
Yes. Why is that not obvious? Humans are learning machines. The student will learn what he or she learns. He or she may learn that you are a complete ass and he or she does not want to learn anything from you.
Do your understand your questions are inane?
Iâm getting that English is not your first language, or you are very young and immature. Yes, he or she can show up like a robot. (That is not a teacher. I made a distinction between the âJob Titleâ and a âTeaching Relationship.â Are you not understanding my post?
You did when you asserted "teachers need to know psychology of students.â
Now you assertâŚ
Seriously? How fucking hard is that? Any moron can tell when someone is not listening to them. I gave a perfect example during the stage presentation above.
I have no idea what you think you read but your responses have nothing at all to do with anything I posted. Itâs like you really do not have a grasp of the English Language. Perhaps it you took a moment to paraphrase what I have said in 3 or 4 sentences we could clear this up. From your comments, you are do far off the mark as to just sound silly.
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I do not care about my language.
It doesnât change the fact that teacher shouldnât learn psycology.
Are u saying No.
You provide No arguments why teacher shouldnât learn psycology of students.
Why do you get to call it paranormal, and how are you defining the word that would separate it from a brain state? There is no reason to assume anything called a âghostâ is real. We have no evidence for such things. It seems to me that everyone hears a voice now and again. So what?
I imagine your longing is illusory. I do not mean it is not real. Instead, what you long for is not real. My suggestion to you is that you clearly and accurately take account of this thing you long for. Write it out clearly and as accurately as you can. My best guess is that you will fine it to be an unreal desire.
Yes, I did provide an argument and you missed it completely. Pretending to be a psychiatrist, psychologist or even a counselor and attempting to implement some technique or theory is manipulation. If the child feels manipulated, he/she will resist. Instead, be authentic. Be yourself. Be interested in your subject and interested in sharing the amazing things you are interested in. No one said teacherâs shouldnât. The comment was that they did not have to. Itâs not necessary.
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Why not? Just keep adding orthogonal directions to get as many as you want.
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I think you already provided answer to that some weeks ago.
Why did you replied again,I m confused.
Also I still believe a teacher is a psychologist first.
Thatâs is a little disagreement here.
Thanks for your attention.
Not to worry⌠It popped up on my list. I donât remember this stuff. I do this instead of watching TV. I live and work in Korea. This is my entertainment. Itâs 4:40 AM and I am up plinking away.
Itâs easy to draw cube on paper that to explain it to a person who has no touch receptors and blind.
A 5th dimensional object is way beyond human comprehension.
If you want my reason why I believe in this ,listen to Leonard susskind QM lecture 1.
He says that our human mind is trapped in 3D perception Nd and the dimensions we draw on paper can never be sensed cause we are trapped in Newtonian perspective of things.
Itâs not supernatural,itâs just we are more Newtonian/grounded.