“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.” PeopleKnowsHomePainKnow HowTeacherDoctorsAbuseForgottenLawyerVulnerabilityNurseBetray Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.” TeacherHeardTeachingTaughtColdForgottenTheeDullMarble Author:William Shakespeare
“In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.” KnowsKindOrderGivenForgetTakenTeacherInformationStudentsPicksTestsForgottenExpectedWitnessDataPerceiveSensationsHypothesis Author:Peter Medawar