Fundamentally, I see my role as an educator as to find creative ways to nurture the development and resilience of the human brain. Yes, I teach subjects, and there's content knowledge that I impart to my students. But at its root, pedagogy is about the process of teaching and learning, and not about filling an empty vessel.
If you are born a wildebeest, once you are dropped to the grassy savannah from your mother's womb, you need to figure out very quickly how to run. Your survival depends on it. If you hatch from your egg a turtle, treacherously high up the beach above the tide line, you need to get from your nest to the water before a looming seagull snatches you up from the sand.
