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For those who are sometimes curious about my style of teaching, I want to share this with you.
I'm a huge proponent of hard pedagogy. I wasn't given this as a child, but I needed it. 10 years of Tae Kwon Do training helped provide me with the tough love I was never given by an absent father (though when he did come back in my life at age 12, he did somewhat give it to me, so it's not a total sob story). If you want to see a video of how I like it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzIQG-0aGc
But I have an even better example and that is the movie Whiplash. It's about a hardass Jazz instructor who berates and pushes his students. He's FAR worse than I would personally go, but it depends on the context. In the movie, he pushes the main character to be great, but eventually he breaks and tells the instructor to fuck himself. He ends up also getting the instructor fired.
Here's one scene that demonstrates why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAsABdkWSc
They meet up some time after the main character quits and the teacher is fired. The teacher invites the protagonist to play for him at a performance. The teacher, knowing the protagonist got him fired, sets him up to fail and gives him the wrong music for the performance. The protagonist walks out, embarassed at his play, knowing that the important and influential people watching him will know he's shit, even if he got played by the instructor.
However, in the final scene, he walks back and...well, watch. See how anger and tough love can push you to greatness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZY-Ytrw2co
And to see the thinking behind why the instructor did what he did, before the final scene just linked, see this scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vTI5g198E
In the end, the instructor pushes the protagonist to greatness, even if the protagonist didn't quite understand his methodology.
What you take from this post is up to you, but I wanted to share this for any who either don't like my style or who want to know more about the way I teach. I'm not always mean or hard, but when I think I need to be, I am. I'm learning as much as you are, so I will say that I'm happy to be on this journey with the rest of you.
With love,
Hector
I'm a huge proponent of hard pedagogy. I wasn't given this as a child, but I needed it. 10 years of Tae Kwon Do training helped provide me with the tough love I was never given by an absent father (though when he did come back in my life at age 12, he did somewhat give it to me, so it's not a total sob story). If you want to see a video of how I like it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzIQG-0aGc
But I have an even better example and that is the movie Whiplash. It's about a hardass Jazz instructor who berates and pushes his students. He's FAR worse than I would personally go, but it depends on the context. In the movie, he pushes the main character to be great, but eventually he breaks and tells the instructor to fuck himself. He ends up also getting the instructor fired.
Here's one scene that demonstrates why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAsABdkWSc
They meet up some time after the main character quits and the teacher is fired. The teacher invites the protagonist to play for him at a performance. The teacher, knowing the protagonist got him fired, sets him up to fail and gives him the wrong music for the performance. The protagonist walks out, embarassed at his play, knowing that the important and influential people watching him will know he's shit, even if he got played by the instructor.
However, in the final scene, he walks back and...well, watch. See how anger and tough love can push you to greatness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZY-Ytrw2co
And to see the thinking behind why the instructor did what he did, before the final scene just linked, see this scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vTI5g198E
In the end, the instructor pushes the protagonist to greatness, even if the protagonist didn't quite understand his methodology.
What you take from this post is up to you, but I wanted to share this for any who either don't like my style or who want to know more about the way I teach. I'm not always mean or hard, but when I think I need to be, I am. I'm learning as much as you are, so I will say that I'm happy to be on this journey with the rest of you.
With love,
Hector
