Authorized or unauthorized teachers/behöriga eller obehöriga lärare…

Authorized or unauthorized teachers…

A debate has raged in the teachers papers about this topic for a while.

I thought on this on my walk. That I think one needs a base of knowledge to build upon. It’s easier to build on a more proper ground.

But education can certainly also kill creativity...

And using one single method (or maybe even only two) doesn’t function in different contexts and circumstances: depending on if the school lies in the town/city or on the countryside, the size of the city, the culture in the area the school lies in, maybe in which country, what sort of people that is living in the nearby area; if it is working-class people, middle class or upper class or even a mix of these…

Maybe all this is very obvious, a matter of course!?

We spoke about this during a tutor’s education I joined at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 2002/2003.

During this education we also spoke fairly a lot about empathy and different ways to interpret the phenomen empathy… These discussions became a bit technical and intellectual in my mind and feeling though… And with all my reading of Alice Miller they became even more...

This blog-post was inspired by a sender in to one of our teachers' papers, Lärarnas tidning (here stands many interesting things I saw now).

A sender in in the last paper where a teacher wrote that she had worked as teacher when she had quitted the gymnasium (high-school) and taken her gymnaisum exam she then thought it went fairly well and that she was fairly clever until she had gone a teachers' education at college. Then she realized how bad she actually had been as un-educated. In her own opinion... Indoctrinated by the education? :)

She thought all unauthorized teachers would realize this if they educated themselves and meant it is incredibly important to be educated.

But I guess this dicussion is quite complex... Who is the best sort of teacher...