Essays

Topic:  What makes a good teacher?

What makes a good teacher? Style? Presentation? Knowlege of subject?
All of the above? And more? And Les?

In Science of Mind teachings the lines between good and bad are somewhat blurry.

The so-called "good teacher" cannot teach someone who is unwilling or not ready to learn.
There is only one thing. The teacher and the student are not separate entities. They are each part of a greater learning unit.

We are all teachers. We are all students. As teachers we shout out what we have learned from our experiences in the ways we walk, talk, dress etc. We shout out "this is me, this is who and what I have learned I am". And we beg others to learn from us, "be like me and validate my existance". As students we absorb all the info available in a world of information overload and filter that data through our current state of awarenes and acceptance. Ideas that don't fit in with our current beiefs of the way of things are are rejected, if they even get percieved at all.

A student who is open and willing to hear and embody an idea will let that idea re-create him and take him to the next level. A teacher who is sharing his knowlege will see new meanings in his pronunnciations and evolve intellectually. Together they compliment each other and help each other progress. The simplest off hand remark can unintentionally and without your knowlege change another person at depth.

What is a good teacher? A good teacher is someone who is teaching something you are open to learning. Their style, irrelevant.  Their presentation, irrelevant. Their knowlege of subject, irrelevant. It's all within you. Are you open to new ideas, new ways of thinking, new ways of being. Or are you so busy shouting out who you are and who you want everyone else to be that you just can't hear. You are always attracting teachers. The good one is the one you listen to.