Teachers vs. Learners

This week I relearned what it is to be a teacher and good learner. And they key to being an effective teacher is to be a lifelong learner. Students who earn a PhD do so by much study. The PhD degree translates into a love for knowledge. In order to a good teacher you need to ever be a good learner and vice versa. As we teach we learn new ways in which we can deliver information and problem solving techniques. If a teacher never learns these new ways he isn't a teacher. For to be a teacher implies that one is learning from what comes from your mouth. To learn we must be able to teach what is given to us. Otherwise it is simply stored away perhaps for a moment in life but over time things left unshared go unremembered. In order to be a learner, it implies knowing a matter well enough to teach it to another. Additionally this act serves as a technique for planting ideas more firmly in your brain's memory. Teachers-Learners, Learners-Teachers: Nothing without the other.