It would be a hell of a task. Even demystified teacher relationships are fraught with abuse; a teacher with any sort of transmittable/trainable gnosis makes it that much worse.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @Dandy_Roddick
Excerpt from an email I wrote recently in response to an inquiry (in green)pic.twitter.com/nU8EK58Lm8
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Also, from https://vividness.live/2015/10/16/better-buddhisms-a-developmental-approach/ …pic.twitter.com/FC3YaTRFD3
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These are fundamentally pedagogical questions rather than Buddhist. To approach it from questions that look at effective teaching & transmission of skills /knowledge from the wider world is the way to go. Apprenticeships governed by clear rules & agreements can be v.powerful
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This reminds me of Ken McLeod's 3 functions of a teacher: 1) to teach technique 2) to call people on their stuff &/or 3) to be an embodied demonstration of the teaching. The 3rd function, in particular, varies greatly depending on the learning modality.
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The second is tricky without clear agreements, if we're solely referring to adults, but perfectly doable. But teachers need help with this and in Buddhist group seem to rarely get it.
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The scarcity of teacher training, and more broadly the lack of institutional support for teachers, is a central part of the problem
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And in turn this is largely due to lack of money, due to the dysfunctional but near-universal delusion that Buddhist teaching can and should somehow be provided for free.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Sciamanoinglese and
Which in turn is due partly to the attitude that “teachers are no better than anyone else so why should I give them money”
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Which in turn results in under-trained, burned-out teachers who are poor examples and reinforce the sense that they have nothing to offer worth paying for…
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And around we go.
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