LIFE LESSONS
Today, I Stopped Being a Teacher and Remain Merely a Guide
Thoughts on allowing myself to become a sponge, like my children.
“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.” — Latin Proverb
When our children come into this world, we see their whole lives stretched out before them, and with that, a lifetime of possibility.
But not necessarily their possibility. Our possibility to do good things for another human being. To do the best possible things for that human being.
A possibility to impact a life in the most positive way possible by teaching them everything we know.
But now, as I work with my son to prepare him for a test that will determine where he spends his adolescence, and reflecting on the same time period with my older children, I see where the real lessons come in — and they aren’t necessarily the ones he is learning.
They’re the ones I am learning.
My dad, in his earlier years of being a grandfather, taught me a very important lesson about who learns from who, and what really counts as knowledge.
He used to rant about how kids don’t learn “proper things” in school these days, and that they don’t know anything useful.
