Can we teach?

Hi Lore, Being a teacher myself I have realized that there are typically two different sects of students - who can be taught and who cannot be. Wait, let me explain - The first category is those who either want to learn or can be brought about to learn(by convincing or by trying out the ways they can understand) and the second category is those who just will NEVER learn(they learn too but from their own experiences only) But yes, teaching is a process, takes time and needs loads of patience on both parts - the trainer and the student. It cannot be just one moment for sure

Hi Lore. I am intrigued by this quote and curious as to who the author is. I'd like to read it if I can find a copy here...or perhaps online. Am also curious as to the context to which this is quote is written. Like if one is teaching social science subjects, this could apply to a certain degree. If one is teaching exact subjects like math etc. this may not apply. There is also the problem of experience. Teaching what one has experienced may not be understood and grasped by one who has not experienced same. No words could be enough to describe this. So yes, I think this could be true. But I really would love to read the whole book to understand what the author really meant. Thanks for sharing the quote. It's a food for thought.

Hi Lore2009 I think is the ability to describe. I´ve already noticed that. Let me tell you about the Bible... if you got five talents, and you profit and develope them, God gives you 5 more. If you have 10 he gives you 10 more. This is something similar. If you play tennis, and continue playing it, you have the ability to play each time better. If you cook, you have the ability to cook better. If you play an instrument... if you love to teach (and describe) ... and so on... Don´t you think so? Blessings!... Dainy

i think of teaching as a skill. i do not believe that anybody can do that anytime he or she wants to. there are ways to impart information and knowledge to people who do not have them and it is through skillful teaching. without the expertise, it will all come to fail.

What happened is, anything that happened to us, it's consider that life is teaching us something. Knowledge is not given, is something you need to learn by yourself. Good luck and take care ~

we can always try explaining, but it will always take time. Teaching cannot be instant, otherwise the experience is lost. People often say that the difficulty of a conversation goes down to the person with the lowest IQ. We hereby mean that in order for everyone in the conversation to understand we must be able to explain in simplicities what we mean. So if we were to explain a washing machine to a tribal hunter in Papua New Guinea we cannot start by describing it as a big metal box that washes laundry, for one some tribes in Papua dont wear clothes and they may think that its possessed. So you start by explaining to them that in your country it is cold and thats why you wear clothing and when they are dirty it is washed in a large spinning bucket like stirring soup. You over simplify it but they understand it better, even if its not really the truth. Later on if its pertinent you can add to it, by explaining electricity and refer back to the 'spinning bucket' as being powered by electricity. Pretty much like explaining to a child why cars are dangerous, its hard and takes time and effort. Like all forms of communication.

I think that to teach someone any given thing you have to come in from their level. To do that I would start by doing a lesson in some way that would make them think from my angle and go from there. It would take some thought and love for what you are trying to convey. I think it could be done though.

I think that the stronger a passion we have for something and the more intimate a knowledge we have of it, the better we will be at teaching someone about it. For example, say someone is great at doing math. Put most any problem out there and they can solve it. But if they only know how to do it and not why it works, will they be good at teaching it? I think not. Communication skills and lack of stage fright are also major determinants.

To live is to teach. Everyday we live, we teach something to our neighbors, to our children, to our friends. You can teach anything to others as long as they are open to receive any lessons. Some may take shorter time to understand than the others. But the great thing in teaching is when the students accept and follow what the teacher believes. Unfortunately, not all people teach the good things in life.

If find that in many ways either positive and or negative we sort of teach all within our surroundings something. As we interact with people who get to know us for who we are so to an extent some emulate some of the things and ways we do things, so this I find to be something we have taught.

Anyone can be an effective teacher with every deeds he does. If someone turned in so responses from any learning stimulus, then the process of passing the knowledge is achieved. What ever positive results is achieved, then learning is completed. What I am saying is, each one can be a teacher, he can pass on knowledge even if he's a fool himself cause even a fool has something to tell, that can elicit stimulus to thinking faculty. This is the wonder of teaching. A child's first teacher is her mother, even when he's still in her womb, connections and learning process is already occurring between them!

Teaching is a passion and i believe when one does not have it and only teach for money, one could not be a good educator. People who teach from the heart, teach more than what the book says. They can impart their knowledge easily without any difficulty at all. Their main objective is to be able to let their students understand and not only learn from the book.

Teaching is very good thing.What we learn that we can share with everyone.Sharing knowledge will increase our knowledge and will power.So dont hesitate to teach one who didnt know and teach to other what you had know so that other would had benefit from this. What ypu learn it must give some benefit to others otherwise there is no reason in learning.

Yes I believe that. Actually everyday is a learning process for all of us. The mere interaction w/ someone, even if it is just a plain status message or commenting here in mylot. Sharing of knowledge, comment, wisdom is actually a form of teaching. IMO, I am really learning a lot from these discussions and interacting w/ different types of people widens my knowledge just about everything :)