A P. S. on Teaching

Thank you all for commenting on my "Teaching" post. I felt guilty because the post does make it sound as though professional teachers are the only teachers and wanted to add this as a sort of postscript to my last post. I did not mean to diminish the importance of the people who teach in any aspect of our lives.

We all have "personal teachers" such as mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, doctors, lawyers, dentists, caregivers of all kinds, and spiritual leaders/teachers - pastor's/priests/clergy who have been huge participants in our lives. There are a wide range of teachers/mentors out there in the world. Most good businesses have mentors who work with new employees to help them adjust & learn. New teachers have mentors to help them along in adjusting to their profession. Teaching is not just left to us professional teacher-types. We are all teachers. We all teach some good & some not so good things. The good things we usually try to teach, but inadvertently we teach the wrong thing from time to time. Here's to the good things we manage to teach.