Comments on: If The Student Isn’t Ready, The Teacher Can Go Home http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/ Goal Setting and Productivity for People Who Like Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Brad Isaac http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2834 Brad Isaac Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:26:54 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2834 <i>Ick! Sorry my posts are so long and terribly formatted. Are we able to add in html tags when posting comments to pretty things up a bit?</i> How's it looking now? Ick! Sorry my posts are so long and terribly formatted. Are we able to add in html tags when posting comments to pretty things up a bit?

How’s it looking now?

]]> By: Brad Isaac http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2798 Brad Isaac Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:07:48 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2798 Annie, I am looking for a fix for the formatting issue in comments B. What do they call the definition of insanity? Doing the same things over and over hoping for.... Annie, I am looking for a fix for the formatting issue in comments

B. What do they call the definition of insanity? Doing the same things over and over hoping for….

]]> By: B. Riley http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 B. Riley Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:01:17 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2796 Dr. Phil has his quirks, but I do love that particular line from him. It really drives the point home. It's just sad when people KNOW that it's not working well for them, and continue on anyway. Unfortunately, at some point, I often feel compelled to give up and just not offer anymore. Just listen. It's not great, but it is easier on me mentally. Dr. Phil has his quirks, but I do love that particular line from him. It really drives the point home.

It’s just sad when people KNOW that it’s not working well for them, and continue on anyway. Unfortunately, at some point, I often feel compelled to give up and just not offer anymore. Just listen. It’s not great, but it is easier on me mentally.

]]> By: Annie http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2792 Annie Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:45:38 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2792 Ick! Sorry my posts are so long and terribly formatted. Are we able to add in html tags when posting comments to pretty things up a bit? Ick! Sorry my posts are so long and terribly formatted. Are we able to add in html tags when posting comments to pretty things up a bit?

]]> By: Annie http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2791 Annie Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:43:50 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2791 how is it someone can read a book one day and it mean one thing and read the same book again in 5 years and it mean something more. I think you answered your question in your post... "I now have the experience to apply the knowledge." You don't have the knowledge & experiences at 20 that you would have at 30. How then can one relate to a situation/lesson without experience? I think the best example I can give would be in looking at artwork. To a layman looking at an abstract painting for the first time they may see only splotches of paint. A person who has studied art or at the very least read books on abstract art may see the emotion in those splotches. We can't predict what life will throw at us (Can't force a lifetime of knowledge into a little pill for us to take in all at once). We can only be open to what it might teach us as each day comes. Really, what else is there to do? how is it someone can read a book one day and it mean one thing and read the same book again in 5 years and it mean something more.

I think you answered your question in your post…
“I now have the experience to apply the knowledge.”

You don’t have the knowledge & experiences at 20 that you would have at 30. How then can one relate to a situation/lesson without experience? I think the best example I can give would be in looking at artwork. To a layman looking at an abstract painting for the first time they may see only splotches of paint. A person who has studied art or at the very least read books on abstract art may see the emotion in those splotches.

We can’t predict what life will throw at us (Can’t force a lifetime of knowledge into a little pill for us to take in all at once). We can only be open to what it might teach us as each day comes. Really, what else is there to do?

]]> By: Brad Isaac http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2708 Brad Isaac Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:15:28 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2708 Andrew, that is a good question! Thanks for posting. Andrew, that is a good question! Thanks for posting.

]]> By: Andrew Seltz http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2707 Andrew Seltz Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:07:59 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2707 Brad, When you mentioned people that keep making the same mistake over and over, it reminded me of one of my wife's favorite questions. My wife is a fan of Dr. Phil, and whenever people try to explain their bad behavior or some clearly illogical decision, he always asks, "So, how's that working out for you?" It's a good question who's answer often helps prepare the student (it usually works when used on me!) Brad,

When you mentioned people that keep making the same mistake over and over, it reminded me of one of my wife’s favorite questions.

My wife is a fan of Dr. Phil, and whenever people try to explain their bad behavior or some clearly illogical decision, he always asks, “So, how’s that working out for you?”

It’s a good question who’s answer often helps prepare the student (it usually works when used on me!)

]]> By: Brad Isaac http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2554 Brad Isaac Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:56:42 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2554 Annie, it was supposed to say In spite of, I made the correction (one of those late night post errors) Remaining open to change is necessary in order for the lesson to sink in. But what I am getting at is how is it someone can read a book one day and it mean one thing and read the same book again in 5 years and it mean something more. Annie, it was supposed to say In spite of, I made the correction (one of those late night post errors)
Remaining open to change is necessary in order for the lesson to sink in. But what I am getting at is how is it someone can read a book one day and it mean one thing and read the same book again in 5 years and it mean something more.

]]> By: Annie http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Annie Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:06:19 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/12/if-the-student-isnt-ready-the-teacher-can-go-home/#comment-2538 "He was a ... to spite his best .......close to him were ignored." Sorry, but did you mean despite (in spite of) or were his efforts being spited? moving right along... "Change your approach - what you are doing doesn't work!" Keyword there being change.... change is uncomfortable, it requires WORK. Do we really need teachers? I think that most times we know what the lessons are. Sometimes it's a matter of simply doing what you know you should even though you'd rather not put in the effort. I guess to make yourself ready the best thing you could do is be open to change. “He was a … to spite his best …….close to him were ignored.”

Sorry, but did you mean despite (in spite of) or were his efforts being spited?

moving right along…

“Change your approach – what you are doing doesn’t work!”

Keyword there being change…. change is uncomfortable, it requires WORK. Do we really need teachers? I think that most times we know what the lessons are. Sometimes it’s a matter of simply doing what you know you should even though you’d rather not put in the effort.

I guess to make yourself ready the best thing you could do is be open to change.

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