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Teaching a loved one to sail
wrote in message oups.com... OK, I admit I am unable to teach someone. Sometimes you explain it several times and they dont get it. What do you do? Years ago, I taught College Physics and my students seemed to think I was good but that is all abstractions. Teaching a skill is different. I have never been able to teach my wife to steer a canoe either. I cannot explain how to do it, I just do it. Its like explaining how to ride a bike. Some people really want personal instruction and others just want to be pointed in the right direction and let them go. My son is like my wife, he craves instruction to the nth degree and he makes me crazy. My 10 yr old daughter just wants some general directions and she'll figure out the rest. Of course, my little daughter drives my wife crazy. Tacking in the channel was like that. How do I tell her "Steer up when you feel power coming on from the wind and then down a little when it goes away". "When you tack, you gotta feel when the wind begins to catch the jib to help push the bow around in a tight tacking situation" There is a lotta "feel" that goes into this that I cannot explain. A proper education instills self learning. You can teach others, but you certainly can't think for them. It is up to them to chose to learn, to do that they must chose to think. If they can't think they can only be trained like animals. |
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