This thread still has a long ways to go before its possibilities are exhausted. And it is a happier, more constructive thread than some of the closed BS threads hanging out on the front page, so why not refresh this thread and bump a closed thread off the front page at the same time.

All my life I have been fascinated, sometimes painfully so, with the side of learning and practicing which cannot be measured, quantified, standardized. One reason I avoided becoming an educator was because I really wanted to leave the standards and the norms to others. When I go to somebody else to learn something, I have expectations of that person having standards; but it dawned on me that I did not really want to trade places and be in the position of the educator. So I have never been a teacher. But learning is a subject I return to, no matter how often I get scared away from it somehow.

My childhood and youth were marked by a really pathetic dependency on somebody older and wiser to look up to and get approval from. With retrospect and having finally disengaged from my family of origin, it is easy to see why I looked for a surrogate parent outside the house.

Today my learning experiences are not with a teacher any more. Role models, maybe, but not going to a teacher. I guess I've said enough now.