[hef19898]

This week-end my father, a pretty good teacher for photography, and I, currently teaching something completely different from time to time, had an discussion on teaching. For me, the main difference between a speach a teaching is flexibility. During a speach, people are listening, but there's hardly any interaction. Teaching is more of a interaction with people. My standpoint is that teaching more or less means having people thinking about something and learn. A speach can, and should, motivate people to think about the message. But they can live pretty well without one. In order to teach well, you have to adopt to your pupils on a almost individual basis. Some have to read something to get it, others have to hear it while again others have to see or do it themselves. I guess thats why big classes tend to be that bad for learning progress.

Commin g back to topic / speaches: you have to differentiate the message from the messenger. There are alot of examples of damn good speekers with bad messages, usually with very bad out-comes.