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Blogger's Note: I come from a 'long' line of teachers--me, myself and I.
Kinch taught for a bit here and there, then found another calling. I have been fortunate [indeed blessed] to have known some Master Teachers [some of whom have found their way onto the pages of this Blog]: Isabella Fisher, Robert Edgar, Luis MacIver, Patrick Paton to name just a few.
And then there's the Master of all Master teachers--one Patrick Grugan, aka 'the Grug' aka 'Magnificent' aka 'Teacher Man' [see previous Blog posts]. He taught me more about teaching than people who have, for whatever reason or another, been assigned to 'mentor' me [I loathe that expression]in the arts of its whatness.
Teaching, or what a Temple University professor once described as 'assisting in the art of discovery', defies easy codification. And formulaic recipes [despite the many treatises on the subject].
Akin to the art of the controlled accident [a term borrowed from Sumi-e painting] it invites a relationship between teacher and learner, knower and known, in mystical and often alchemical ways.
All of this is by way of introducing a new 'column' on the Blog...Mr. Slinger's BlogBook of Days....Scots writer Robert Chambers 'Book of Days' [updated], with a side of Mr, Singer's whimsy.
In our first blog --consider this a kind of Prologue--you will meet the illustrious Mr. Slinger, surely worthy of joining the pantheon of Master Teachers mentioned above...
[to be continued...]
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