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**Jambjanatan** · 12-24-2010, 10:39 PM

It takes a bit of courage,

I have been a teacher for almost 20 years giving from high school to university. Now I work with Adults with the non-formal education approach and I have ever stimulated the kind of student that gets "out of the box"; also I am really enthusiastic when one or two of them show that quality. The students which I have most enjoyed are the ones of the Preparatory level (the three years before reaching the University). They are in the period where they think they know everything and like to argue and ague and argue with the teacher.

I use the Socrates's "Mayeutica" now known as Critical Reflexion or Reflective Meditation or Transformational Learning. It has proved to be really encouraging so to start reasoning about things and to be insightfull for those students that like to argue about anything and try to be out of the box. It is a wonderfull experience to be out of the box with the few of them. The "aha!" moment through that is really wonderful. They discover that a teacher is someone that helps to bring out something that is known in some way and not an authority or a kind of person to be worshiped. So they found in a teacher just a teacher that soon will be outdated and neither an authority nor a guru that looks and acts as if he knows everything.

But the main part of them prefer the teacher to give the knowledge digested by him and not the effort and challenge that means to get knowledge out to light.

Have you ever noticed how similar the words "conform" and "comfort" are?

To bring out knowledge is similar as to be in labor. It is hard and painfull but at the end is a joyfull experience. Most of them do not like to go through that, and its OK, no big deal.

12-24-2010, 10:39 PM	#7
Jambjanatan Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 376 Senior Member	It takes a bit of courage, I have been a teacher for almost 20 years giving from high school to university. Now I work with Adults with the non-formal education approach and I have ever stimulated the kind of student that gets "out of the box"; also I am really enthusiastic when one or two of them show that quality. The students which I have most enjoyed are the ones of the Preparatory level (the three years before reaching the University). They are in the period where they think they know everything and like to argue and ague and argue with the teacher. I use the Socrates's "Mayeutica" now known as Critical Reflexion or Reflective Meditation or Transformational Learning. It has proved to be really encouraging so to start reasoning about things and to be insightfull for those students that like to argue about anything and try to be out of the box. It is a wonderfull experience to be out of the box with the few of them. The "aha!" moment through that is really wonderful. They discover that a teacher is someone that helps to bring out something that is known in some way and not an authority or a kind of person to be worshiped. So they found in a teacher just a teacher that soon will be outdated and neither an authority nor a guru that looks and acts as if he knows everything. But the main part of them prefer the teacher to give the knowledge digested by him and not the effort and challenge that means to get knowledge out to light. Have you ever noticed how similar the words "conform" and "comfort" are? To bring out knowledge is similar as to be in labor. It is hard and painfull but at the end is a joyfull experience. Most of them do not like to go through that, and its OK, no big deal.
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