I wanted to share this with you – the education of our children is not the work of a moment, nor is it to be undertaken by amateurs – read on!
Continuing in the series for those considering their educational options, I invite you to join me in exploring the question: Is education a job for amateurs?
In the Christchurch Methodist Mission’s guidelines for social workers in interviewing clients, which I had the opportunity to see a number of years ago, I noted a remarkable item which went something like this: “The client is regarded as being expert in self and own life experience.” This sounds remarkably like stating the obvious, until you start to think about it. How many people do you know, for instance, who treat you as a complete non-expert on your own life and insist on telling you what kind of person you really are, what really happened to you, and how you really felt about it? For some of us, the figure would probably be equivalent to about half the people we know!
So let me begin…
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