In our lives we have teachers
Who invite you in
To the house of their wisdom,
There you can learn what they know.
But in this world,
There are other teachers,
Teachers who are so wise
Who do not invite you into their house,
But they lead to the place
That is the threshold,
The threshold of your mind.
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Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Some teachers show us how but the best teachers show us the way.
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A fine write Gold. I heard a teaching method, in 3 stages
* I (the teacher) do; you (the pupil) watch.
* You do; I watch
* You do! (without me watching)
"That's the way to do it!"
Thanks ANDY ~ BACH a perfect start to FRIDAY ~ no work tomorrow and the end of Term is in sight ~ AMEN !
Average TEACHERS tell us to open our BOOKS ~ Great TEACHERS tell us to open our MIND ~ Thanks for caring & sharing. Please check MADE IN MICHIGAN ~ Yours B & A !
Thanks Brian, can I assume that you are off to New Zealand soon as I think you may know somebody out there?
YES INDEED ANDY ~ DAVID ~ Ruth's Fiance and I are due to fly to Auckland on Saturday 18th August ~ it can't come too soon ! My DAD (bless his heart) has upgraded me to Business Class for a non~stop flight ! Phone & Skype is great to communicate ~ now through Technology Darkly but then FACE to FACE ! I'll have to get a few henna Maori Tattoos to please ANGELA she is becoming more Maori each day. Being apart is a big sacrifice for each of us and we have had to put our Wedding on hold until 2020 ~ but we both felt it was too good an opportunity for Angela & Ruth to miss ~ A once in a lifetime opportunity ~ Yours BRIAN
Yes indeed their are..we, As poets are some of those teachers
Thank you for that Jason, we can learn from many sources including poets.
Great write Andy
Thank you Michael, much appreciated.
We are all teachers and students too. I'm sure you'll agree we never stop learning. The teaching done at school is the easy stuff, regimented into a curriculum. The teaching done away from school is the important stuff in living.
Its a hit and miss game how we learn and what lessons we actually do learn in that way. But it never stops and daily we are given the opportunity to re-learn and change some aspect of our outlook upon this existence.
Very true da, even at my age I am still learning new things every day. Some of those new things come as a surprise as we think we should have known about them, in my case it happens especially in music, I have been listening to all types of music for over sixty years and believe I know a great deal about it but I have come up with the knowledge the the more I get to know about music the more ignorant I realise that I am.
there you go!
outstanding!
Thank you onepauly, most kind.
Wow this was an incredibly thought provoking piece, a teacher in occupation does not always translate to the true meaning; not in the way you've represented it here, brilliant write Gold!
Thank you poetboy, you are most kind.
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