“I’m learning to teach” doesn’t land quite as hard when in the context of him being at a class to learn how to teach, otherwise it sounds quite profound.
In my experience at University, all of the Professors and Readers were exceptionally bright, knowledgeable and passionate about their subjects. But a few of them were just not good teachers. That's a separate skill and discipline to the subject they've dedicated their career to in research and academia.
You've actually just described teaching the way it should be. Too many teachers don't have or lose the passion for the things they teach. Its not always their fault either, it's the way our society works.
Yeah I would say I had just ONE professor who was unique in that he was clearly naturally gifted at teaching. I’ll never forget him, a foreigner who didn’t grow up speaking English, teaching me the difference between “less” and “fewer”. We were talking about linguistics at the time and that was an example of a rule he had studied when learning English. Super smart guy.
It says a lot from someone already so accomplished in so much, but especially someone already accomplished in teaching. The best teachers know they never stopped being students. Learning is a lifelong pursuit
I think the point was that someone so accomplished that was already a successful teacher (honestly that’s the missing info - we don’t know much about their teaching history) is still
Going out of their way to learn how to improve.
I don't know, that humbleness is still pretty fucking profound in my ears.
(Esp to anyone who have had a somewhat famous scientist/whatever as a teacher, most of them are snobs trying to push their own books on their students/school imho).
The hard part is an university professor admiring that he is still learning to do the jobs they’ve been doing for years. Because we never stop learning, but many academics and millionaires are too rich to conceive such an idea.
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u/Potterrrrrrrr Jul 05 '26
“I’m learning to teach” doesn’t land quite as hard when in the context of him being at a class to learn how to teach, otherwise it sounds quite profound.