Zen…

Teachers are better than doctors do you agree or disagree ?

Some people will say, teachers have more experience, they give lessons based on personal knowledge and training they’ve gotten over the years.

Others will say, doctors act according to the training they’ve gotten and practiced or explored over time.

Without life long experiences we may not be able to practice efficiently or become effective in our own game.

Some people tend to learn easily or faster just by doing things.

It’s like reading a manual on how to ride a bicycle and actually riding the bicycle.

The writer of the manual may serve as the teacher here, the student is probably the one who reads the manual and decides to act on it.

We don’t know how good at riding a bicycle the writer of the manual really is, he should also know how to ride and do it even better than the reader. Yeah?

Now who’s the more effective person? A person who teaches from knowledge of experiences or the one who learns from several people’s experiences or from his master and practices the knowledge to be able to solve the problems around him.

In the game of chess, there are few basic rules;

White moves first

Develop all your pieces

Never move a piece twice

Both players should be able to get their kings to safety by the first 10 moves if not 7 castling

It’s not advisable to move your queen first or early especially when you’re still developing your pieces

Think about your opponent beyond your own goals and purposes

Control your center.

Some people know these rules, not exactly because they’ve been playing the game.

They probably just have the theoretical knowledge of it while some others actually play the game.

They know the rules ; they learnt from their masters, they’ve played by the rules severally, they’ve learnt from their own personal experiences.

Who is a more effective or successful person?

A person who knows the rules or facts and teaches from a space of an acquired knowledge?

Or the one who learnt by practicing.

A teacher who knows from experiences through time and teaches to enrich others? Or a student who learnt from his teacher and puts the knowledge into practice in enriching himself by solving problems around him?

We truly live by serving others. To serve is to enrich others and thereby making the next generation an even better space than the space we’re already in.

The essence of evolving is to become a student and a teacher at different stages of life.

Learning to become enriched, enriching our circle and hopefully the process will be repeated in due time.