Teaching: 101 Poem by Atef Ayadi

Teaching is easy,
like acting 101
if you ever noticed that?

you do not need a P.H.D
A special certificate
to concentrate or identify your own possible DHA sysmtoms and eliminate them.

students have to trust you.
if not, take your box anything you brought with you and leave.
trust is self trust
is how you walk
talk
slowly
and how you eat
slowly
-and sometimes what you eat has to do with your own inner
deeper core trust.-

students are and must be
your audience:
they have taste
intentions,
hobbies,
lobbies,
and biased phobia.

sometimes,
you take them like a bench of lams.
-it is not about 'I have to be tough or they will eat me from the beginning! ', the last resort or exit,
i have an image to preserve.

not at all!

you must be mythical,

like a judge,
a cap,
Tarzan,
Alexandre the great (even though he was gay, but he lead an entire army to
be lost around the block,)

they must believe in you.
i mean you must believe in yourself and know exactly what you are talking about and accept that you are not a complete universe-otherwise it will be
an e-harmony romantic lecture-

get that?

now, go to your students
and work like a team,
a family,
a country
a planet, or
one whole
solid universe.