172) Teaching and Learning

 

You heard the old Chinese saying

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach a man how to fish and he eats for a life time.

But....
What if you don't know how to teach him?
What if he is not willing to be taught?

Better way...
You motivate him/her to want to learn.

A teacher teaches. A student learns.

A good teacher makes students want to learn.
An excellent teacher makes students want to continuously learn for life.
A great teacher inspires students that want to be teachers of others.

Being a teacher or a student is a matter of mindset.
When you share out what you know,  you became a teacher.
When you absorb in what you don't know,  you became a student.

In a class of 1 teacher and 40 students.
Common understanding is that there are 40 students learning from 1 teacher. 

Only a good teacher will realize that there is 1 student and 40 teachers.

A great teacher knows that there are 41 students and 41 teachers.

A teacher who keeps learning will keep improving his knowledge and improve his sharing.