Most of my mind agrees that the teacher and the student should be the same person. This concept was also noted by Dr. Keshav of India as “A Good Teacher shall also be a perpetual Student…“.
I really enjoy teaching however, it has come to compete with my academic goals. Upon the end of this semester, I will withdraw from teaching and tutoring activities in order to allot proper focus to my studies. I’ve finally arrived at the awareness that I will be able to better provide instruction after I have finished my formal student activities. Finished is italicized as I don’t expect that I can ever truly be done and formal is specified to isolate the necessary delimiter to the span required to properly attain a doctorate degree.
Some may say that I wear too many hats. For once I agree with those people.
I will also need to rearrange my work responsibilities to allow me to operate fully within the span of no more than 40 working hours throughout the year as I will need to utilize the summers for augmented studying.
I am writing this as I am sitting in a class that is considered introductory for my choice major. However, the information that is being covered is just beyond my immediate grasp as I haven’t spent enough time preparing with the material. As I glance upon my classmates and see a common disconnect between them and their understanding of why the information is needed I feel ashamed that I understand why it is needed and still haven’t owned the material. This will need to be remedied.
“The best way is for you to do the examples by hand. I have just given you the fundamental concepts.” Dr. Yanggon Kim 201109262051
Back to class.
