[ConservativeDude]

"Teaching is easy; learning and discipline are hard as Hell."



Damn, that is well put!


(Could I add one little addendum...not related to this thread, but just flushing out the statement generally. how about this: good teaching is also a way of learning since you are synthesizing, repackaging and passing on what you have learned...sort of a finishing touch. once you know it, and then you teach (or written about it) it, then you have mastered it).

[HungarianGypsy]

(Could I add one little addendum...not related to this thread, but just flushing out the statement generally. how about this: good teaching is also a way of learning since you are synthesizing, repackaging and passing on what you have learned...sort of a finishing touch. once you know it, and then you teach (or written about it) it, then you have mastered it).
So true! There are many times I will be taching my children and say, "I didn't think of looking at it that way before." or "I didn't know that."
My favorite was the time my son started talking about water bears and stingless bees. Both times my husband would say they didn't exist and my son would either read from a book or look them up and prove it. Now when my son asks if something exists my husband says, "I'm not saying anything. Last two times you proved me wrong."

[Old Professer]

That's very true, for it is in the teaching that you must be first certain of your material and in the writing you are reinforcing that which you have first recorded in your mind.