Daily writing prompt
What makes a teacher great?
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
— Plutarch
Looking back to what my math teacher did, she would come to class, give the new material, and then give us the hardest task from the book for this new material. We had to learn how to solve problems rather than what was in the last lesson.
I’ve not been able to reproduce anything like that with my kids. I tried teaching my first kid multiplication (or something similarly complicated) and he ran away by crawling when he was 2 and forgot how to walk.
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I tried to teach one of my kids the concept of a light switch turning the light on and off before they could walk. They cried.
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Lol, I showed how to change a led transformator to my 5-yo today. He expressed basic interest and asked me to buy him a lightning machine for his birthday.
I explained about electricity, where to touch, where not to. Ended up with a lightning request.
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Smart boy. I want a lightning machine too!
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looks like we’ll repeat the process tomorrow, the transformer stopped working.
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