WHY DO WE NEED A TEACHER/COACH?
How do we learn everything? Obviously, in everyday life there
are lots of things we can learn by - books, manuals, instructions,
and sometimes just by common sense. It refers to learning
to work on a computer, cooking food, assembling some simple
gadgets at home, using some machinery, etc. Even exercises
could be learnt by video/book instructions.
Last several decades saw the development of ideas in health
and wellness by using exercise and fitness which are now accepted
as a part of everyday life. Sport education materials are
produced on a high business level. It almost eliminated the
necessity of having a teacher or a coach in our learning of
exercises. Is it indeed so?
Could these wonderful books and videos produced by these
teaches/coaches completely substitute hands-on work? What
value does the teacher bring which is impossible to substitute?
After working in the educational field for more than 40 years
and studying the science of teaching and learning, I can attest
that the question of the necessity of a teacher/coach for
learning something important in your life is not really a
question, but a well-accepted reality.
Indeed, why genius Plato was a student of Socrates, and then
genius Aristotle became a student of Plato? I guess there
was something important that could be taught only by a teacher.
Something imperceptible which comes only from the teacher's
knowledge, something coming from the heart and soul, which
we sometimes couldn't even express in words, something that
gives everything a personal touch.
Certainly, we can progress far with our skill of writing
and will be able to build visual and logical meaning of what
we would like to teach, but something will always be missing
there and require your teacher's presence. This "something"
is a translation of multi-dimensional possibility of movement
into a clear visible, perceptible and performable personal
reality of movement.
The teacher is a translator and guide of your movement, who
knows the road map to your goal, who is with you in "the
car" during your driving, correcting your smallest deviations
from the right direction before you get deep into unknown
field. The teacher is someone who is with you, when you got
into a dark area and lost your understanding of right and
wrong, and who gives you a personal emotional and mental support
through all your hard times.
Your teacher is someone who shares the moment of excitement
when you reach your goal and someone who takes your psycho-emotional
pain when you fail, and help you to get your hope back and
keep moving forward.
The teacher is your friend and healer, your support and knowledge
provider, your inspiration and consolation, your adviser and
corrector to whom you can complain not only about your errors
in movement and pain in your body, but also about why life
is not fair. I do understand that it may take time to find
the teacher who will fit your expectations, but he/she is
out there waiting for you to help you make your dream come
true.
Dr.Romanov
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