When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear.”
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Throughout our lives, people come and go. Each one has something to teach us if we are open to learning. I believe that is such an important quality that I know that I have, and I am so grateful for it. Those who cannot learn are those who think that have all the answers, and that they are always right.
I loved being in school and always sat in the front so that I wouldn’t miss anything. It started when I was 5. I was put in the back row until the teacher told my mother that I could not see the blackboard. I’ll never forget the day I got my first pair of glasses. The optometrist pointed to a building and asked me if I could see anything on the roof. He knew of course that I couldn’t. Then he placed the glasses on my nose and asked again…I was so shocked to see things that I didn’t know were there. One of the happiest days of my life. Of course that didn’t last long because a few years later, after being made fun of for wearing glasses, all I saw in the mirror was a female Groucho Marx without the mustache…big nose and glasses. But that’s not important for this part of my story.
Back to teachers…let me jump ahead to today. I’ll jump back and forth as memory serves.