Teachers are human. This is why people will always have trouble learning from them. Don’t get me wrong, teachers do everything humanly possible to insert things into our brains. Teachers work tirelessly to create thinkers out of all of their students. Unfortunately people do not learn well from other people. This fact can frustrate many teachers, causing them to think apathetically about most students. This apathy causes them to put less effort into their lessons. They move on from lesson to lesson, not particularly interested in whether or not the students are grasping everything that they are teaching.
This is the reason that golf is such a great teacher. Golf hits you with the same lessons, over and over, until you have fully grasped the concept. When a person tries to play the game without learning the lessons, they keep getting hit by the same problems. For instance, a man who has a problem with humility will have a big problem when he plays golf. From the first hole on, he will be humbled by the difficulty of the game. After just a few rounds of golf, a prideful person will either become humble, or quit the game. It is this repetitive teaching style that makes golf such a great teacher.
Children benefit the most from this type of teaching. When a teacher moves on from a valuable lesson, it can mess up a child’s entire education. Golf can provide a place for children to learn these valuable lessons from a teacher who does not stop until the lesson has been learned.
There is more to come! Not quite finished.
ReplyDeleteThe paper isn't lacking facts but if i had to choose something I would want to see more evidence or facts about why people who have trouble with humility and being humble have problems playing golf. Why doesn't golf have a character that stands out like Manny Rameriz does in baseball or Terrell Owens does in football?
ReplyDeleteThe tone and approach is definately of a person who is experienced in the game of golf. It seems that he's seen people struggle and people succeed in the game and he knows how to get an edge from the teachings of golf.
The stance was clear. He wanted the reader to know that unlike a human teacher, golf can teach the student until the lesson is stuck in their brain. The student has to be willing to learn and can't have a cocky attitude towards learning. They have to be patient and humble.
He didn't take direct quotes it was more of his opinion. He still got his point across though.
Started out great...looking forward to the rest...development of lessons and teaching and this will be great...also examples of learning lessons from repetative behavior...didn't see any examples of sources
ReplyDeleteWhen I play gold, I have a terrible slice, so I correct it by aiming too far right of the green. I think this is what you're getting at. I obviously have a problem with my swing, and rather than trying to correct it, I comensate elsewhere so I don't really learn the lesson. I think you're onto a great op-ed here, but expound more on the actual lessons one can learn from golf other than some Scottish guy a long time ago had a crazy idea to hit a ball 18 times into a little hole hundreds of yards away!
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