Deb

>>I can teach like they can sing. So why am I saying teaching doesn't exist?
>>Beginners need to stand up to sing. Beginning teachers need to know that
>teaching isn't a thing you do to someone else. Rather, learning is something
>that you MIGHT, if you're lucky, get to assist with.
>
Well said, Sandra! This really expresses it. Now I see your purpose, if
you are talking about a way to help new unschoolers.

Debbie

>In beginning stages, like student teachers and beginning homeschooling
>parents and assistant karate teachers (which my son is) and games teachers
>(Marty and Holly have both "taught a game" in the past couple of days, or
>rather recited rules in the presence of other people) need to look for and
>see learning as a separate process from their own song and dance. In advanced
>stages there is teaching, but it is compassionately and competently
>>>facilitating another's learning.

>>If a teacher lectures in the forest and nobody hears it...
>If a teacher lectures in a classroom and nobody's actually listening...
>If a teacher presents a lesson and everyone there already knows the
>material...
>
>There is no teaching happening.
>
>Sandra
>