Monthly Archives: November 2018
“There once was a Zen monk being pursued by a ferocious tiger. He raced to the edge of the cliff, looked back and saw the tiger about to spring. He saw a rope hanging over the edge of the cliff. He grabbed it and began to shimmy down out of the clutches of the tiger. Whew! He checked below and saw a quarry of huge, jagged rocks. He looked above and the tiger was poised atop with bared claws. Just then,
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I have been a professional educator my entire life, both on the elementary level and on the university level. Working with any age of student requires patience and creativity in order to get across the necessary content. There are many pieces of information that educators need to share with their students, but it is the incidental learning that is probably the most profound. It is the method of learning, the experience with other learners, the feeling of being valued as a person that stays with the learner.
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