polilogues

Douwe Nutterts 0202

Question: Did teaching help you to go beyond book knowledge?

Nutterts: I think so. And also, I haven’t always been a teacher, but I also have been a student. I think, maybe my first love is being a student. That’s more true! Anyways, like being a student in many ways. And I think being a teacher is also being a student. Because, once you have to teach it, you have to practice it yourself also. So it’s a practicing but from a different place. And I think when you are a teacher you have to more look at it in depth. It forces you to look at things in a different way. So definately. And I don’t see myself because I’m a teacher that I know (everything). I think that always the slow students become the teachers, because they have to practice a lot before they finally get it. I mean, some people practice on their own, some people practice with others, and they start teaching and that forces them to really look at things, and to ask themselves: " What is this about?" And I don’t know, really, but in a joking sense that is part of it. And it is definately something about integration. And it is somehow always been my destiny or whatever, or my longing, to teach also. It is something I like to do.

I want to do something with that. I want to share it with, people teach it. And maybe in the beginning of being a teacher I had a lot of ego investment in there. But I think through time I’m having less and less ego investment in there, but really enjoying it sharing it with people. I think there is fulfillment in doing this.