Edudialogue

Some weeks ago I was giving a course about effective educative language. At one point, one person attending asked me: “Are you sure that we should encourage children to make choices? Aren’t they too young to hold the weight of a choice?”. From that exact moment, that question started running into my head. The answer came to me a few days later, while I was sitting on the sofa, reading some esoteric ideas about the difference between essence and personality. In ancient esoteric teachings, they distinguish between essence, the group of features belonging to us from our birth, and personality, or rather the group of features that we’ve acquired from the outside that doesn’t always overlap the ones from our essence. They say that essence and personality might be very different, up to the point that people have multiple characters inside them. These characters might be so different that they fight among them and this appears as an inner conflict. However, these philosophies say that

Teachers struggle to gain students' attention, but actually there are some easy tricks to get it back. It all starts with establishing a relationship of mutual respect.   Mutual respect  Every teacher has an own theory about how to gain students' respect but unfortunately they don't always work. This is happens when teachers' concept of respect diverges from students' concept of respect. Luckily, previous researches investigated who students consider a "good teacher" to respect. Good teachers are those who focus more on students' understanding rather than on contents' transmission. They deeply believe in the capabilities of students and adapts the teaching style on them: give explanations in an understandable manner; enhance the clarity of explanations using media/examples; are willing to repeat the explanations and to answer students’ questions; etc. In so doing, teachers are showing respect for students. To get the respect back from students, t