Good Teachers come from Great Students
Years ago when I finally began to really accept and commit myself to what I felt was one of my greatest passions,… that of being a speaker or teacher, I realized that to be a just a good teacher would require that I become a great student. Then if I would seek to truly become a great teacher it would require so much more. Since the day I truly committed myself to be “forever the student”… the world has opened up to me, or should I say, “my eyes have opened up to see things the world was willing to teach me in the most amazing manner.” I have come to know for myself, that the old saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” ….is more than a bit of wisdom. It is a fact, perhaps even a divine truth…and it is a promise.
Here are a couple fun quotes about learning and teaching. Enjoy…Kirk
Who is too old to learn is too old to teach - Proverb.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
A Recommended Read!! == Man’s Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl, a psychologists by training and then was imprisoned in the Jewish death camps where he was in a position to witness behaviors of people in the most extreme circumstances. In this wonderful book he recounts numerous stories from the camps of how hope for the future kept him and his comrades alive. Frankl describes how the prisoners were able to create dreams and plans for the future in order to stay sane and keep their will to live in an environment where it was very easy to give up. What I got out of his recounting of the horrors of the death camps was that even though the Nazi’s took away almost all of the basic human necessities we are used to in life, and brutalized their prisoners, they weren’t able to control the minds of those imprisoned.
Scoopers In the News!!
Just a note to say thank you for the quick delivery. I got the book just in time for our meeting. I read the book to a group of 6-7 year old boys. They absolutely loved the story. It is the first time I’ve seen them sitting still in a circle so quietly…even the parents loved it! They all want to get the book and read it to their staff. It was a hit!
Once again, thanks so very much for sharing your story with us.
A TX scooper… Stephen Stoddard told me he was going to use The Dog Poop book to introduce lean manufacturing and 6 Sigma concepts to his supervisory staff. I asked him how it went…here is his reply.
“It went well. Your message parallels the Lean manufacturing theory of eliminating waste (poop). I related the dog and his owner to the waste that we don’t know where it came from or why it is there but that person/process or our customer has moved on, but we keep the waste. I related the kids arriving to play with showing up to work. Some of the waste is obvious almost glaring to some employees. For what ever reason, time, effort, management difficulties we let the waste remain. I really like the illustration of avoiding the pile. I associate the second coach/group and ref to supervisors and upper management. When an employee brings an issue or a solution to their manager or supervisors attention but they lack the initiative to investigate or even follow up. As in your book they may go out of their way to avoid the waste. They may implement policies to protect us from the waste or change processes to work around the waste. I had my group relate to the Father. Listen to the pointers and realize that they can empower their employees (pointers) to remove the waste or resolve the issue. Remove the waste and move on. As the employees see their supervisors example they will in turn take the initiative. It will help the cream rise to the top.
~I will be using a refined version as a presentation to our employees at the department level. Thanks for the great tool.” ~Stephen Stoddard, Lean Six Sigma Project Manager
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