salience
February 6, 2005
Scream soapbox, but I feel teaching isn't something that can be taught. Throughout my life I've been surrounded by teachers, people who instruct in many different environments, whether through positions of leadership or career tracks that just happened to lead to a different destination than the one intended. Education itself isn't something that ever ends. Formally maybe, but really, it is an indefinite product of living. Each day is an opportunity to gain expertise, looked at in the right light.
Inherent in quality people is the need to express and help. Be an individual in your contributions. Find what you're good at and share. List what you know nothing about and research.
Teachers everywhere are usually commendable citizens. Often times though, I feel it's an education path, when chosen too early, for those who are too scared to pursue their dreams. We will all teach at some point, in some capacity. There is no greater feeling in the world than genuinely affecting another individual by what you have to bring to show and tell. It recalls that old cliche of the daughter who educates herself on education because it's what her mother did by accident and experience. Two people who are in similar roles in society, yet who cannot have the same impact on those they come into contact with.
I will always be wary of those who paint themselves into the teacher corner. It's a cute answer for an after school special, but it begs the question, yeah and what else??
I think back on all of the teaching I've had the opportunity to do. No matter what the capacity or material, it's become a given. It's not something I do, a job per se. It's more a part of who I am.
Sonic Wave has become one of the most energizing and fulfilling experiences I've ever had in Boston. Even if the rehearsals are in East Bridgewater. The kids, the other staff, the haphazard show and rough instruments, it's all so enriching. No one on staff does anything musical as a career. It is all volunteer, and it makes it that much more rewarding. We are all of us the same. The time and travel commitment each week, it's a lot to pencil in, but it makes the coming week just a holding period until the next rehearsal. There's improvement and dedication. Musicality and friendship.
It's everything Santa Claus can never bring you, but year after year, you still hope he just might find a way. It's a sometimes innate universal that a student lecture just can't contain, you know??
Inherent in quality people is the need to express and help. Be an individual in your contributions. Find what you're good at and share. List what you know nothing about and research.
Teachers everywhere are usually commendable citizens. Often times though, I feel it's an education path, when chosen too early, for those who are too scared to pursue their dreams. We will all teach at some point, in some capacity. There is no greater feeling in the world than genuinely affecting another individual by what you have to bring to show and tell. It recalls that old cliche of the daughter who educates herself on education because it's what her mother did by accident and experience. Two people who are in similar roles in society, yet who cannot have the same impact on those they come into contact with.
I will always be wary of those who paint themselves into the teacher corner. It's a cute answer for an after school special, but it begs the question, yeah and what else??
I think back on all of the teaching I've had the opportunity to do. No matter what the capacity or material, it's become a given. It's not something I do, a job per se. It's more a part of who I am.
Sonic Wave has become one of the most energizing and fulfilling experiences I've ever had in Boston. Even if the rehearsals are in East Bridgewater. The kids, the other staff, the haphazard show and rough instruments, it's all so enriching. No one on staff does anything musical as a career. It is all volunteer, and it makes it that much more rewarding. We are all of us the same. The time and travel commitment each week, it's a lot to pencil in, but it makes the coming week just a holding period until the next rehearsal. There's improvement and dedication. Musicality and friendship.
It's everything Santa Claus can never bring you, but year after year, you still hope he just might find a way. It's a sometimes innate universal that a student lecture just can't contain, you know??
lasaliente, 01:19
