{"id":24598,"date":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-on-being-an-instructor-in-the-role-of-the\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","slug":"notes-on-being-an-instructor-in-the-role-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-on-being-an-instructor-in-the-role-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Notes on Being an Instructor<\/p>\n<p>In the role of the instructor, due to your own conceit there<br \/>\nis much damage that you can do to a student. At the same<br \/>\ntime, due to your own sense of charity, there are many<br \/>\npossibilities that you can open for the student. In the<br \/>\nformer case, it is possible to do well by a student to show<br \/>\nthem how to prepare for the future in an explicitly<br \/>\nformulated manner. However, in all cases you must<br \/>\nconsider the short-term future versus the long-term<br \/>\nfuture. Students need to make their own mistakes on their<br \/>\nown terms. Any hints you can give them quickly expire as<br \/>\nthey have left you. Independence cannot be taught.<br \/>\nCharity is an important quality for an instructor. You<br \/>\ncontinue to give all that you can in terms of your at-thatmoment<br \/>\ninsight, your future ideas, and opportunities that<br \/>\nmight be available to you that you share with your<br \/>\nstudents. The new instructor quickly realizes the difficulty<br \/>\nto this approach. That is a difficulty wrought of human<br \/>\nego. For instance, you might suggest to a stuck student a<br \/>\nparticular direction. He\/she will grudgingly adopt the<br \/>\napproach, and then sometimes succeed. Most likely, in a<br \/>\nrush of passionate creation he\/she has forgotten that it<br \/>\nwas you (the originator) that suggested the idea. Your ego<br \/>\nis hurt; their ego is nurtured. And it can become even<br \/>\nworse when the student later tries to impress you or claim<br \/>\ncreative equality to you by sometimes literally rubbing it<br \/>\ninto your face. My advice is to move on.<br \/>\nPeople who have ideas, continually have new ideas. You<br \/>\nare better off letting go of your ideas as it means that you<br \/>\nno longer have to do them anymore. You are living life in<br \/>\nthe most efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John Maeda, 2003<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maedastudio.com\/index.php\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maedastudio.com\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.maedastudio.com\/index.php<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dhiyamuhammad.tumblr.com\/\">dhiyamuhammad<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes on Being an Instructor In the role of the instructor, due to your own conceit there is much damage that you can do to a student. At the same time, due to your own sense of charity, there are many possibilities that you can open for the student. In the former case, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6oK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}