With No Student There Is No Teacher

Esoteric to Exoteric: Teacher and student

 

            A 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.

              A 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.

            A 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.

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