“You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.” ― Edward O. Wilson
We take so many things for granted. Okay I take so many things for granted. I assume because I know how to do something, you know how to do it too. There is a knack for doing laundry. Sure you can through the clothes in the washer then take them out and put them in the dryer and call it done. "Done" may be the term for those clean clothes that were once white and now they’re pink, likewise they once fit and now look to be the size of a two year old. Yes, there is a knack to doing laundry. It is the same with cooking, cleaning, driving, building things, and on and on the list goes. There is even a knack to living. Most of us if we’d admit it learn by doing. Yet many of us would rather do it our self than take the time to teach someone. We believe it to be quicker and take less time. This being said, does it really? I don’t think so anymore. Because if I teach someone then they can teach someone and if this continues I promise we can all get a lot more done. So I have changed my thinking. I have begun to think generationally. If I learn something and teach my children and they teach their children then as a family we can accomplish much more than me taking my knowledge to the grave and my children learning either the hard way or not at all.
Recently I was gardening and thought I should have paid closer attention to my Dad when he taught me how to remove suckers from my tomato plants. My husband said, “I’m not sure your Dad had that down either, maybe he should have paid better attention to your grandfather.” I agreed, but it was too late. Perhaps the reason history repeats itself is we fail to involve others in the process of learning.
2 Timothy 2:2 “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”
We take so many things for granted. Okay I take so many things for granted. I assume because I know how to do something, you know how to do it too. There is a knack for doing laundry. Sure you can through the clothes in the washer then take them out and put them in the dryer and call it done. "Done" may be the term for those clean clothes that were once white and now they’re pink, likewise they once fit and now look to be the size of a two year old. Yes, there is a knack to doing laundry. It is the same with cooking, cleaning, driving, building things, and on and on the list goes. There is even a knack to living. Most of us if we’d admit it learn by doing. Yet many of us would rather do it our self than take the time to teach someone. We believe it to be quicker and take less time. This being said, does it really? I don’t think so anymore. Because if I teach someone then they can teach someone and if this continues I promise we can all get a lot more done. So I have changed my thinking. I have begun to think generationally. If I learn something and teach my children and they teach their children then as a family we can accomplish much more than me taking my knowledge to the grave and my children learning either the hard way or not at all.
Recently I was gardening and thought I should have paid closer attention to my Dad when he taught me how to remove suckers from my tomato plants. My husband said, “I’m not sure your Dad had that down either, maybe he should have paid better attention to your grandfather.” I agreed, but it was too late. Perhaps the reason history repeats itself is we fail to involve others in the process of learning.
2 Timothy 2:2 “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”
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