Lessons
What does it really mean to teach?
Marking World Teachers’ Day, this episode of A Voice Like This looks beyond lessons, books and classrooms to explore where understanding really comes from.
In “On Teaching”, Kahlil Gibran suggests that a teacher cannot simply give us wisdom. At best, they can lead us to the threshold of our own understanding.
William Wordsworth takes us somewhere rather different. In “The Tables Turned”, he closes the books altogether and invites us outside, where Nature becomes the teacher and learning begins simply by watching, listening and experiencing.
Two very different teachers, perhaps offering much the same lesson.
Poems featured:
On Teaching – Kahlil Gibran
The Tables Turned – William Wordsworth
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