Sublime

Professor R. M. Rabinowski Department of Psychology Fortuna College, Fortuna, California Dear Professor Rabinowski, Your book changed my life. He tells a full-fledged conversion narrative: wayward boy saved by a chance encounter with brilliance. He describes how The Ape Inside Us awakened something in him, although the awakening has come, perhaps,

be a good pupil and always question the teacher. After all, the teachers are also students at the end of the day.

I believe that it is the teacher’s responsibility to provide a reason to learn. A meaningful, entertaining, engaging, thrilling, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants reason to keep their eyes and ears and minds open.

To the end of his life, he encouraged students to think laterally, broaden their experience, and forge their own path in search of match quality. “I try to teach people, ‘Don’t end up a clone of your thesis adviser,’” he told me. “Take your skills to a place that’s not doing the same sort of thing. Take your skills and apply them to a new problem,

But at the event I attended, he got so lost in the razzle-dazzle that he overlooked the most essential requirement of teaching: to deliver Learning Outcomes.

Coming up with a creative metaphor is one of the best ways to learn a new concept or share an important idea. That’s

Chagdud Tulku observes that it would be hard to find a completely faultless teacher, and even if we did, we probably wouldn’t realize it. Nevertheless, “we can rely on a lama who, through meditation practice, has removed some of the mind’s obscurations, attained some degree of realization, and developed great compassion. Teachers with a good heart