Teaching - Essential Attitudes (Part 3)
Correction - I originally left the i out of Annie
If you have ever been a student of a Teacher who was committed to you and to your own individual personal potential, then you know the difference between a teacher and a Teacher.
Helen Keller always referred to Anne Sullivan as "Teacher." In many ways the story of Annie Sullivan's commitment to Helen Keller's potential is even more amazing than the story of Helen Keller. Annie Sullivan had experienced life as an orphan, the death of her brother in the orphanage, her own loss of sight, not to the degree of total blindness, but to a degree that it was a major liability for Annie.
Annie had Knowledge. Her Knowledge was both experiential and academic. And that Knowledge had transformed the personality of Annie Sullivan. Even when Helen's own family had given up on Helen's potential, even though Helen's parents saw Annie's role as more custodial than rescuing, yet Annie was determined to Live as she believed and to Teach Helen without regard for whether or not Helen liked her or whether Helen's parent liked her. While it is true that Annie's initial relationship of isolating Helen from her family's coddling had a deadline, this deadline was not due to any desire on Annie's part to abandon Helen but rather to the Keller Family's readiness to abandon both Annie and Helen.
A large percentage of people who are employed in a school as teachers are not Teachers in the K.B.L.T sense of the term. A teacher teaches a subject or an assigned book or material. A Teacher teaches a student or students. A Teacher is committed to the individual who he or she is teaching.
The difference between a teacher and a Teacher is the object of commitment. Some teachers are committed to a career. Some teachers are committed to their school. Some teachers are committed to all other teachers.
Some universities focus more on providing a lifestyle and a career to their professorial employees than they do on the success of the individual student.
One of the greatest paradoxes of Unconditional Love is that it has at its root a condition. Love is a verb. It is an act of the will, of the resolve. You can not manifest Love unconditionally to another without yourself being completely committed to this relationship and to empowering the development of the one that you love.
If you are not completely committed, then you will impose a condition upon the other person. By your failure to be completely committed, it is possible for that person to do something which will cause you to decide to abandon the relationship.
Consider with me the Parent-child relationship. A child is not able to receive Unconditional Love from a Parent who is unreliable or untrustworthy or who may one day runaway. Therefore, the Parent must accept the condition of "always being there" for the child.
If you are seeking to possess Cohesive Integrity, you must be ready to accept the Conditions required of a person who Teaches another human being.
The affect of the experience of teaching Helen Keller had a life altering impact upon Annie Sullivan. The act of teaching another person and being totally committed to that other person's development and empowerment creates an experience for the teacher. The experience creates Experiential Knowledge. The Knowledge creates Becoming. The Becoming creates Living and the Living increases your ability to be a Teacher.
This is exactly what happened to Annie Sullivan. Helen was a challenge to everything Annie believed and to her values that is to say Knowledge - but Knowledge (Belief and Values) motivated her resolve to act without regard for the seeming impossibility of the task. Thus Knowledge worked together with deeds and by the Action of Teaching - Annie's Knowledge became Mature and Complete.
If you have ever been a student of a Teacher who was committed to you and to your own individual personal potential, then you know the difference between a teacher and a Teacher.
Helen Keller always referred to Anne Sullivan as "Teacher." In many ways the story of Annie Sullivan's commitment to Helen Keller's potential is even more amazing than the story of Helen Keller. Annie Sullivan had experienced life as an orphan, the death of her brother in the orphanage, her own loss of sight, not to the degree of total blindness, but to a degree that it was a major liability for Annie.
Annie had Knowledge. Her Knowledge was both experiential and academic. And that Knowledge had transformed the personality of Annie Sullivan. Even when Helen's own family had given up on Helen's potential, even though Helen's parents saw Annie's role as more custodial than rescuing, yet Annie was determined to Live as she believed and to Teach Helen without regard for whether or not Helen liked her or whether Helen's parent liked her. While it is true that Annie's initial relationship of isolating Helen from her family's coddling had a deadline, this deadline was not due to any desire on Annie's part to abandon Helen but rather to the Keller Family's readiness to abandon both Annie and Helen.
A large percentage of people who are employed in a school as teachers are not Teachers in the K.B.L.T sense of the term. A teacher teaches a subject or an assigned book or material. A Teacher teaches a student or students. A Teacher is committed to the individual who he or she is teaching.
The difference between a teacher and a Teacher is the object of commitment. Some teachers are committed to a career. Some teachers are committed to their school. Some teachers are committed to all other teachers.
Some universities focus more on providing a lifestyle and a career to their professorial employees than they do on the success of the individual student.
One of the greatest paradoxes of Unconditional Love is that it has at its root a condition. Love is a verb. It is an act of the will, of the resolve. You can not manifest Love unconditionally to another without yourself being completely committed to this relationship and to empowering the development of the one that you love.
If you are not completely committed, then you will impose a condition upon the other person. By your failure to be completely committed, it is possible for that person to do something which will cause you to decide to abandon the relationship.
Consider with me the Parent-child relationship. A child is not able to receive Unconditional Love from a Parent who is unreliable or untrustworthy or who may one day runaway. Therefore, the Parent must accept the condition of "always being there" for the child.
If you are seeking to possess Cohesive Integrity, you must be ready to accept the Conditions required of a person who Teaches another human being.
The affect of the experience of teaching Helen Keller had a life altering impact upon Annie Sullivan. The act of teaching another person and being totally committed to that other person's development and empowerment creates an experience for the teacher. The experience creates Experiential Knowledge. The Knowledge creates Becoming. The Becoming creates Living and the Living increases your ability to be a Teacher.
This is exactly what happened to Annie Sullivan. Helen was a challenge to everything Annie believed and to her values that is to say Knowledge - but Knowledge (Belief and Values) motivated her resolve to act without regard for the seeming impossibility of the task. Thus Knowledge worked together with deeds and by the Action of Teaching - Annie's Knowledge became Mature and Complete.
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