RE: Celebrating Teachers' Day!

DAB — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:24:46 GMT

The teachers who I best responded to were the ones who could make the subject interesting enough that I got excited about learning more about it.

Sadly, most of the teachers I had, including through college and post graduate level, were just book repeaters. They could have been easily replaced with a monotone computer.

The few very good ones demonstrated and understanding of the material and simplified it so that I immediately understood how well THEY knew the material so that I could ask them knowledgeable question beyond what the book said.

Those teachers I remember and I always tried to duplicate their capability when I was faced with explaining things to others.

My motto became, "If you can not explain a subject so that your mother could understand it, then you did not know it well enough to teach others!" Note, my mother was just a high school graduate with a slight business and home economics background. So if your mother has higher education, then substitute to a seventh grader in place of mother. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-58b7e9a2-cf1a-4abb-a0a8-9fd28db5ff1e/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]

DAB