Joy in Teaching

Abstract

ABSTRACT Lecturing is like showing a town you know already like the back of your hand to a friendly visitor. And seeing through the eyes of the visitor, the miracle happens that the guide/lecturer also sees the landscape that he has known for so long, as “new”. The familiar, that had lost its splendour under the mist of being known‐already, is once again new and amazing. This is the joy in teaching. The teacher has the privilege that all through his career he may see with the eyes of those who do not yet know and do not yet see. A condition for this is that the teacher himself should once have seen things as amazing, and that now functioning in front of the class, indeed he is able to see with the eyes of his learners. He must have the ability to be together with his learners, together in this particular moment, here and now. Together with them he must be able to experience and radiate the value of that moment. For the learners this means that the contents of education is offered them not merely as object...