Peace Train, take this country. Come take me home again.

[judecorp]

I am not an angry girl
but it seems like I've got everyone fooled.
Every time I say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear.

I was driving up to northeast c-bus to my vet to pick up Crunchy Brown Stuff^TM for the beasties. On the drive, I got to thinking about how smug (odd, my fingers immediately typed 'smurf'), yes, how smug it seems to truly try to be a good person. To me, a good person not only is good, but also attempts to encourage, to draw out, the goodness in others. Some people choose to "teach by example." I've never been terribly good at that, specifically because I don't think it's enough. Could you imagine learning fractions by watching someone do math problems on the chalkboard?

Education of any kind is a bit of a power struggle - it's an unbalanced dynamic. There's someone with the information, and someone without. Right away, that could set the learner up to be defensive, especially if s/he didn't ask for a lesson. What can I do differently to alleviate some of the imbalance? Perhaps I can draw some knowledge from the other first, before I attempt to do my own teaching.

Oh, who am I kidding? I'm a loudmouth, and I suppose that's just going to be the way it is. :)