(June 11, 2021 at 5:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I believed my teachers at school had my best interests at heart.
Boru
I might limit that to which ones?
If humans always rejected the facts teachers tried to pass down to students, humans would never advance.
I have had, just like bad bosses, I have also had good bosses. Teachers are no different. I wouldn't lump everyone of them up and demonize them as if they are all against you.
My late mother had a lousy teaching manor for the likes of me, her son. She could never understand why I didn't pick things up as quickly as she did. But, looking back at it now, I also understand her intent. She wanted me to be prepared for life. It wasn't that the data that she was trying to teach me was wrong, but nobody ever taught her that kids are individuals and learn in different ways.
My late mother and my late adoptive father had a very authoritarian "sink or swim" approach to learning. It wasn't that they had their facts wrong, in that society back then didn't have the same psychological understanding that kids learn in different ways, and what may work for one kid, isn't going to work for another.
I have had great teachers, and great bosses, and bad teachers and bad bosses. To me, most of both amount to too much of society thinking there is a script to passing down knowledge.
