Esoteric to Exoteric: Teacher and student
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teacher arranges data, facts, information, and knowledge for students
as an aid for them to do the same for themselves and for others, a teacher helps students to use logic, definitions, and analysis.
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good teacher's words are like tiny seeds which may be held in the most work-worn or the tiniest hands, and are pregnant with meaning. A simple
utterance such as "The beginning is half of the whole" may confuse a
man for a moment, but may serve him well at the most difficult
times of his life. A teacher's words may be dangerous, but a good
teacher offers them as tiny easily controlled sparks which in time may come to
make the the smith's fire look small.
To
be a truly good learner or disciple is to be heard by the teacher. The
teacher is a reacher. She wants to extend herself to the learner. A good
teacher wants to be prompt to hear and listen effectively, but first
the disciple must speak. Disciple and master both desire to better retain
and preserve in memory that which is heard. All interpret.
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good student dismisses nothing which is taught until it's rudiments are
entirely mastered. It may seem like trying to swallow the configuration
whole at first, but try it you may like it. Consider making a framework
of the whole yours, than as life goes on you may have a useful place to
attach, some say hang, new information and understandings among, or even
connected to, information and understandings of a similar nature.
Thank you for reading.
rcs