ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that what a good teacher, a susung, looks like by studying two pedagogical figures, who lived thousands of years ago in the East; who just was living in the West. The three aspects of Bill Doll's teaching are pedagogy of thoughtfulness, pedagogy of being a learner and pedagogy of caring relationships, however, illustrative and cannot be instructive guidelines for the everyday practices of teachers. What Doll shares with being a teacher in Liji is a teacher's care for his or her students along with understanding the students, sensitivity to what goes on in students' lives, and the ability to make pedagogical decisions and judgments. Pedagogical thoughtfulness means delivering knowledge without forceful imposition, guiding without coercion, and strengthening without disheartening. Of course, there is a risk in this pedagogical thoughtfulness, the risk that a teacher might fail to identify what students need, fail to catch an appropriate moment for intervention, or fail to notice something valuable in students.
