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Many people have said that "I should have been a teacher."
I've always felt that I'm too impatient to be a really good teacher.
I am too impatient for my "students" to "get it."
I feel frustrated when they don't "get it" as quickly as what I picture in my mind.
Many people have been very lucky that I never entered teaching as a formal profession.
But, all through my life, just about every job I've ever had has included some kind of "teaching"... that's what my life has been about, and all in all. I love to teach people. To help them learn things that can make their life easier. To help them solve problems or to help them learn how to solve problems.
And I've often been accused of trying,
as my middle-school English teacher Robert F. Shields
put it somewhere back in the mid-1950s,
"To share with us the benefits of your infinite wisdom."
So, here's the deal. I'm "upgrading" my website to Rev. 3.0. ... No longer a place for me to get up on my "lessons" and rant about things I observe in the world around me. Starting now, I'm converting the format and style to one of Teaching.
Many of the subjects I discuss will be similar to those some of you have seen on my "lessons" pages,
but the theme will become more of "here's some data, information, knowledge
and maybe even "wisdom" that I've gathered throughout my life."
I hope you find the content to be useful, interesting and even provocative.
If we're both lucky, things I write about may save you some nasty "first-hand learning experiences" in your lives.
As I've said before, and it will be a constant theme here,
"I'm here to Answer Your Questions and to Question Your Answers."
But that doesn't answer the "Why?"
The answer to that comes, in part, from the Jewish concept of "Tikkun Olam."
The idea of "leaving the world a better place than you found it."
So, here's the deal... [from one of my writings on Current.com... ]
If I can get one or two people to question their beliefs and open their minds to explanations alternative to those they've had injected into their minds for ten or twenty or thirty or forty years, and maybe a few come to realize that the logic they've been following for so long isn't infallible, then I'll be very happy.
If nobody believes me and nobody ever changes their mind, it won't bother me at all.
I've worked in industry for some large companies, and probably hundreds of people there, too, didn't listen to my views or "see things my way."
and while I can't prove we would have been more successful by following some of my ideas,
none of them can prove we were better off by not trying them, either.
And, along the way, I've found maybe a few dozen... maybe even a hundred folks... who think that my logic is "spot on" and encourage me to tell even more people my views.
If you're not one of them, so be it. Not my problem.
Feel free to email me with comments, questions, challenges, and $upport. You can PayPal contributions to me.
Thank you, and You're Welcome. Enjoy!