Comments on: Your Greatest Teachers Might be Dead

By: eao uk

eao uk — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:07:22 +0000

An educator, hailed as a great teacher, who many would not have heard of, had universally popular teaching skills and personal educational leadership qualities that would be not onyl inspirational but also of practical use to many aspiring to be great teachers, e.g., in appropriate parent teacher & teacher student relationships and socially -in his case these enabled such education reforms that left his mark on an an educational history. He is the Cypriot writer-poet-thinker and school teacher, the late, Orhan Seyfi Ari -a verse (translated) from one of his poems reads “Never a thinker/teacher expires… Who in others thinking inspires” -and indeed he is remembered and mentioned fondly; some of his those qualities are on: http://www.geocities.com/teachertoteachers

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By: nandini r yogeesh

nandini r yogeesh — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:46:48 +0000

lovely ways for teachers to get inspi red

By: David

David — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:51:52 +0000

Alan Watts is defiantly one of my favorite teachers. He actually died in 1973. Its amazing how easy he makes eastern philosophy to digest. Bruce Lee credited him as a big influence, since he used to always catch his radio show in the late 60s. I think that one his best attributes was that he never claimed that he was speaking the real “truth.” He just spoke what he thought and if you liked it, good, if not, good. He was very playful when he spoke.

By: Jonathan Mead

Jonathan Mead — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:12:57 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys. If you want to check out Alan Watts, I highly recommend looking into his audio tapes. Audio Renaissance has many of his lectures recording in MP3 format. A couple of these are available on the iTunes store as well.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:12:01 +0000

I wasn’t familiar with Alan Watts until I read this article. Thanks for the book recommendations Michael – I’ll check them out.

By: Daniel Richard | WE

Daniel Richard | WE — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:50:58 +0000

You are right on there too! No point having a student who’s ears are not opened to listening.

By: Dante Explorer

Dante Explorer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:46:11 +0000

Great truths and great teachers transcend time. Aristotle, Aquinas, Dante, and Augustine all have something to offer us today.

By: Eugene (Editor, Varsity Blah)

Eugene (Editor, Varsity Blah) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:55:44 +0000

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

By: Andre Kibbe

Andre Kibbe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:41:50 +0000

I went through a phase of being obsessed by Goethe. Dead mentors are even better when they come from an era removed from the noise of an information-intensive present. But remember: everyone, past or present, can be a mentor in something. You don’t even have to like or respect a person on the whole if your focus is on the skill or depth of knowledge he or she has in one area.