The real student is the teacher. Because teaching is, in essence, also studying; but studying in a depth that can only be achieved through teaching. Or rather: it is teaching itself that demands it, since it brings up a multitude of problems that lead to further research, unimaginable to the average student. So the teacher, if he is not a bad teacher, the more he teaches, the deeper he gets into the subject, the more he learns about its details, the more he crystallizes the theory in his mind and the more able he becomes to teach, because he discovers what the student needs to learn.
The Countless Facilities That Are Available Today…
There is a certain irony in the fact that the countless facilities that are available today for learning every language imaginable are not enough to understand them in depth, since, after a certain level, to understand them is to understand their difficulties. In other words: the countless and valuable incentives for learning hardly allow the student to go beyond the surface of the language studied; if he wants to do so, he has to abandon them and face the difficult, using the most archaic processes, although they are proven to be essential. There is no way out: there comes a time when it is necessary to put aside the jokes and sink into the difficult originals.
Learning a Language Is a Matter of Hours of Study
Learning a language is a matter of hours of study. The primary function of the method therefore comes down to keeping the student stimulated, so that he can study more and therefore learn faster. Secondly, it is up to the method to guide learning according to the student’s objectives, i.e. among the four fundamental skills in the study of a language (oral and written comprehension; oral and written expression), it is up to the method to focus more on the one or ones that are most desired. In all cases, progress won’t be very far without a solid foundation in all four. In all cases, progress is directly proportional to dedication. The rest is useless talk.
The Problem With Utilitarian Man
The problem with utilitarian man is that he believes that everything is necessarily for sale, just waiting to be negotiated. That is why he ends up, sooner or later, breaking his face when he comes up against his will against a nature that does not share his convictions. So he lashes out, wages war and sometimes insults what he does not understand; in all cases, however, whether he thinks he is triumphant or not, he is forced to swallow his own smallness.