Came across on Facebook..Nice meme on teaching.
Came across on Facebook..Nice meme on teaching.
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There is no REAL secrets in Wing Chun, but because the forms are conceptual you have to know how to decipher the information..That's the secret..
They say the best teachers are those whose students say, " I got here myself".
I think it means that the best teachers are those that teach by the student "learning for themselves".
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
I would just change "where" to "how".
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
"Wing Chun is a bell that appears when rung.
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There is no REAL secrets in Wing Chun, but because the forms are conceptual you have to know how to decipher the information..That's the secret..
Maybe I'm not an ideal teacher, but I try to throw out lots of ideas. Like a number of possible directions you can take a concept, without saying they are the only ones and suggesting there are probably more. Or pointing out possible connections they might not otherwise notice. Often students come up with things I hadn't considered. Fine, I'm a student forever myself. This seems to be much more common in Jiu Jitsu, but then again I do much more of that these days so maybe that's the only context I'm operating in.
I had a guy come in once while I was teaching a class at Rick Spain's. He saw a flyer on a notice board someone had put up about an ecological or conservation group and a rally they were advertising. He suggested, "maybe you guys should help out these people."
Lot of issues there, notwithstanding my own reluctance to fight the police who are just doing a job and have the power to arrest me if I get violent, but I just told him "No, mate. We don't tell people what to think, we want them to make up their own minds."
"Once you reject experience, and begin looking for the mysterious, then you are caught!" - Krishnamurti
"We are all one" - Genki Sudo
"We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion" - Tool, Parabol/Parabola
"Bro, you f***ed up a long time ago" - Kurt Osiander
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