It is Hari Guru in Malaysia right now.
I’ve really been rethinking my take on education and teaching. The more I think, the less I believe in the idea of teaching someone. But that’s a thought for another post on another day.
For now, let us reflect on a quote by John Dewey from his ‘My Pedagogic Creed’ : “Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
I take the other though similar tack – that it isn’t just teachers who teach.
my best/favourite teachers were the ones who…guided me towards the information rather than fed it to me. (they were also the most frustrating
Cafeteria Catholic. Look it up. The way I’ve encountered it, it’s usually self-applied.