We are to teach the children how to teach themselves. How to mine for the gems, within. The teacher should not be attached to the outcome of the lesson. Did the child learn the quotation by the time they return to class the next week? What does it matter to the teacher? It should only matter in the context of teaching the child how to memorize and what the child gets out of the accomplishment. The teacher shouldn't judge themselves on the child's abilities or accomplishments, neither postive or negative because both of these are purely subjective.
If the child easily memorizes the quote but is terrorizing the kids when out playing what difference did the memorization do? If the child is terrorizing the other kids outdoors, shouldn't the teacher know the homelife BEFORE deciding on appropriate response? Yes, stop the negative behavior and protect the rest of the children but before the blaming and naming game begins find out what the child is reacting to. Is it a selfish nature? Use the selfishness to show a postive side of selfishness, like working with the rest of the kids to get something done because it means a treat for everyone, and therefore the child, when the task is accomplished. Don't deny that negative appearing traits exist, train child to use what is perceived as negative to a have postive outcome.
Detachment from the outcome, that is the teacher of a Baha'i children's class teacher. The good and the bad. Pride in the child's accomplishment for the sake of the child, not because the teacher was the one to guide the way. The Baha'i children's teacher can expect to be with the same group of children for a few years because it is neighborhood classes, around the kitchen table, so the teacher should be fairly familiar of the child's homelife as well as culture, etc ...
O My Lord! O my Lord!
I am a child of tender years. Nourish me from the breast of Thy mercy, train me in the bosom of Thy love, educate me in the school of Thy guidance and develop me under the shadow of Thy bounty. Deliver me from darkness, make me a brilliant light; free me from unhappiness, make me a flower of the rose garden; suffer me to become a servant of Thy threshold and confer upon me the disposition and nature of the righteous; make me a cause of bounty to the human world, and crown my head with the diadem of eternal life.
Verily, Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty, the Seer, the Hearer.
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá
(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 36)
4 comments:
CB, nice to see you back.
The research on my articles for NCO is exhaustive. I am putting in so many hours of unpaid labor trying to see the end of this trail and the point of it all. Millions upon millions of dollars following the demise of the salmon and "they" are employing more and more to government agencies to oversee more agencies which costs millions of dollars more.
Simple solution, the industry can fail now or later. I say close all fishing for ten years.
Write on, you are good.
With your permission I would like to excerpt from this post on my blog Baha'i Views and link.
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