the caution of teachers

When we are grown, the way we learn is strange. You see, we are not taught in all our years of mandatory education, anything about what it means to seek to learn. We grow up and leave our schools without any idea of what it looks like to seek a teacher so that we may continue to learn.

If we are lucky, we find someone who can teach us how to seek teachers.

If we are not lucky, we go through a trial and error period in which we think we have found someone good to teach us only to discover that they are not teaching us the right thing.

I will share with you what I was taught about finding teachers - that a teacher is known by two things, the quality of the company they keep and the strength of their awareness of the limitations of their knowledge.