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Education occurs when students
set out to educate themselves and follow through. This happens when
great teaching is present-- either in mentors or classics, or both. The
roles of students and teachers are clearly identified in the quotation
above.
Students educate themselves through the following process:
1. Observe others and identify a desired trait or skill to be acquired.
2. Walk and smile: try and have mini-successes.
3. Totter and look alarmed: run into difficulties and get worried.
4. Fall and cry: fail and feel bad.
5. Start over again.
As students go through this process over and over--trying, succeeding and failing, trying again-- they become educated.
All effective learning in any subject follows this format. The student
must be the primary educator because the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn.
Teachers teach, and when they
do it well, students educate. This is at the center of all learning and
is the key to success in any and every educational endeavor.
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