Michael Nesmith and Aristotle are.Click here if you doubt it.
I am not, and don't claim to be a genius.
I know I am not because Colleen...
who ironically thinks I am..
proved to me I am not.
Which proves SHE is.
Here's that story:
"Wow, you are obviously a genius and a great teacher...
....the material was way above my head!”
I am sure she meant it as a compliment!
But no one is a genius or great teacher who leaves the supposed learnees learning nothing…except the lie that the teacher is a great teacher because the content was over the students’ heads!
That encounter, several years ago, came after my teaching an advanced course for Christian leaders. Since then, I have wrestled and worked with my approach to teaching; seeking to creatively and consistently make difficult material accessible.
I am not sure I want to…or need to…hear either clause of that sentence again.
I have been honored, though, to hear from my FPU students remarks like:
“Thank you for explaining and presenting that so well; it was engaging and made me feel like I could learn anything!”
Now, that is a compliment. THEY feel like the genius!
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Since I am not…
Having said all that, it was prelude to my posting the "Real Preachers of Genius" video below, which I didn't fully get at first...because I don't watch TV much (too busy reading books like the one at right), and so never got the original ads that these is spoofing.
Genius.
joke, I think, would be a better word to define you.
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ReplyDeletePronunciation: \ˈjōk\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yācati he asks
Date: 1670
1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : kidding (can't take a joke) c : practical joke d : laughingstock
2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter (consider his skiing a joke — Harold Callender) —often used in negative constructions (it is no joke to be lost in the desert)
I would put Dave's writings in the first, illuminating category and possibly your comment in the second, as in can't take a joke...
Nice booooook. http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/bookshelf
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