Some reflections...
One of the things I love most about moving through this period of my life is about my capacity to educate.
It is not that I necessarily wish to over-identify with the role of "teacher" or even of "educator", though they may be expediently and contextually pleasurable identities to loosely hold; rather, I am interested in how I am called into being a conduit between various schools of knowledge.
There is the Subject (which will be taught), the Teacher (who teaches the subject), and the Student (who is taught).
The Teacher teaches the Subject to the Student.
This, of course, is a conventional approach to education, and one which works perfectly well as a framework under many circumstances.
What I am interested in, in that process of transmission, where the Teacher is taught as much on the Subject as the Student is, through the process of Teaching.
It may be a cliche, but the best way to learn really is to teach!
Students ask provocative questions, questions that the Teacher cannot always answer... In that sense, the role of the Teacher is not necessarily the person who IS the repository of knowledge, but rather, is the conduit between a privileged access to knowledge and the Students who await, search for, or who are indeed, active co-participants in this transmission.
A learning community then.
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