10 Rules for teaching

• Be kind: all else is details.
• Remember that you are not your learners…
• …that most people would rather fail than change…
• …and that ninety percent of magic consists of knowing one extra thing.
• Never teach alone.
• Never hesitate to sacrifice truth for clarity.
• Make every mistake a lesson.
• Remember that no lesson survives first contact with learners…
• …that every lesson is too short from the teacher’s point of view and too long from the learner’s…
• …and that nobody will be more excited about the lesson than you are…

Greg Wilson