ABSTRACT
We can ask this question again, and again, and again and AGAIN. Have our own experiences of being ‘taught’ conditioned us to ‘teach’ in turn? It is quite amazing how often formal teaching is not needed for learning. There is so much people can think of and analyse for themselves without having to be lectured to or taught. With a little encouragement, they can reflect, recollect, note, diagram, make lists, categorize, see connections – in short, do their own analysis and generate their own insights. Often they do not know they can. They believe they cannot. When teachers and trainers also believe they cannot, a sad syndrome of lack of confidence, lack of encouragement and lack of occasion sustains a myth of incapacity. Top-down ‘I know, they are ignorant’ mindsets and behaviours in teachers, trainers and facilitators are self-validating.
