The Empty Cup
By Marsha Keller. Posted on .
“When the student is ready, the teacher comes.”
“What if the teacher comes before the student is ready?” I was asked.
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Doesn’t work. No teacher can teach, no student can learn, if they are unwilling to turn their cup, rightside up.
Wanting to learn, is the genesis to learning . . . anything.
Wanting to learn, is the genesis to learning . . . anything.
“A man convinced against his will, holds the same opinion still.”
Trying to teach an unwilling student, is just like pouring into a cup, that is upside down. You may give out all that precious information and wonderful experience, but it will just run around on the outside.
Then there are those who come with their cup upturned, but completely full of other ‘stuff’. A full cup can receive no more.
Come to a teacher
with an open,
empty cup,
Waiting to be filled,
Waiting to be filled,
and you will be. ~MSK
