Hear ye, Hear ye,
I do declare that it is my sole aspiration (during these beginning stages of my social skills development regimen) to be the best student that I can be. The ideal beginner student is one who trusts his teachers, abstaining from any urges to object to the teacher's advisement and instruction. Every new student is a sponge, full of holes and space to absorb information. It would behoove the beginner student to embrace this and to allow those little holes in the sponge that is their mind to be filled with the advice of experts (experts being those with past and ongoing experience in the subject matter who have achieved a moderate to high level of proficiency in it). While this takes trust in the teacher, as there may exist some unavoidable and natural skepticism towards new information that is coming in (often from an expert who is still a stranger/new acquaintance), it is a much higher probability that the expert's instruction and new information will be effective than any instinctual homegrown theory coming from within the novice student himself--much like meeting women is a numbers game, it is to this novice student's own peril if he should play against the odds. I will leave the gambling to those who are "rich" in experience (experts), and who can "afford" to play around and experiment in with new theories.
I will also abstain from attempting to tutor anyone else. I am no keyboard jockey. I will not contribute to the noise level, so as to better receive the signal coming in from benevolent expert sources. I maintain an amount of creativity and flexibility in putting lessons into practice, as I am not a robot (and I think that is the aspect of GC that sets it head and shoulders above the routine-based "methods and tactics", better termed template-based instruction coming from elsewhere on the interwebs.)
I am an expert student with extensive past experience in the natural progression from student to teacher. I received an instensive immersion-based education in an exotic foreign language that is scientifically rated to be in the top tier of difficulty to learn as a native English speaker. During my time as a language sponge, I followed everything that I wrote in the first paragraph. Results? Top of my class, in one of the most successful classes in the school's history. To boot, the school is arguably the number one language school in the entire world. Hooray for me, I'm such a badass, unabashedly proud and arrogant. But I efficiently and, most importantly, humbly worked my ASS off in the beginning stages, so I've paid my dues and earned my chops. Enough chops, in fact, to later become selected to be a teacher at this school myself.
This arrogance and pride will not, however, spill over into my study of this discipline. I don'treally know anything yet, and I will once again humbly defer to and trust the expert advice I am beginning to absorb like a sponge.
Chop chop.
I do declare that it is my sole aspiration (during these beginning stages of my social skills development regimen) to be the best student that I can be. The ideal beginner student is one who trusts his teachers, abstaining from any urges to object to the teacher's advisement and instruction. Every new student is a sponge, full of holes and space to absorb information. It would behoove the beginner student to embrace this and to allow those little holes in the sponge that is their mind to be filled with the advice of experts (experts being those with past and ongoing experience in the subject matter who have achieved a moderate to high level of proficiency in it). While this takes trust in the teacher, as there may exist some unavoidable and natural skepticism towards new information that is coming in (often from an expert who is still a stranger/new acquaintance), it is a much higher probability that the expert's instruction and new information will be effective than any instinctual homegrown theory coming from within the novice student himself--much like meeting women is a numbers game, it is to this novice student's own peril if he should play against the odds. I will leave the gambling to those who are "rich" in experience (experts), and who can "afford" to play around and experiment in with new theories.
I will also abstain from attempting to tutor anyone else. I am no keyboard jockey. I will not contribute to the noise level, so as to better receive the signal coming in from benevolent expert sources. I maintain an amount of creativity and flexibility in putting lessons into practice, as I am not a robot (and I think that is the aspect of GC that sets it head and shoulders above the routine-based "methods and tactics", better termed template-based instruction coming from elsewhere on the interwebs.)
I am an expert student with extensive past experience in the natural progression from student to teacher. I received an instensive immersion-based education in an exotic foreign language that is scientifically rated to be in the top tier of difficulty to learn as a native English speaker. During my time as a language sponge, I followed everything that I wrote in the first paragraph. Results? Top of my class, in one of the most successful classes in the school's history. To boot, the school is arguably the number one language school in the entire world. Hooray for me, I'm such a badass, unabashedly proud and arrogant. But I efficiently and, most importantly, humbly worked my ASS off in the beginning stages, so I've paid my dues and earned my chops. Enough chops, in fact, to later become selected to be a teacher at this school myself.
This arrogance and pride will not, however, spill over into my study of this discipline. I don'treally know anything yet, and I will once again humbly defer to and trust the expert advice I am beginning to absorb like a sponge.
Chop chop.
