First letter
Reading the World/reading the word
No topic could be a better subject for this first letter to those who dare teach than the critical significance of teaching and the equally critical significance of learning. There is no teaching without learning, and by that I mean more than that the act of teaching demands the existence of those who teach and those who learn. What I mean is that teaching and learning take place in such a way that those who teach learn, on the one hand, because the recognize previously learned knowledge and, on the other, because by observing how the novice student’s curiosity works
to apprehend what is taught (without which one cannot learn), they help themselves to uncover uncertainties, rights, and wrongs.