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Old 11-30-2011, 05:44 AM   #2
Tim Ruijs
 
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Re: The Founder's Teaching Ability

Whether or not somebody is a good teacher depends on your take on what exactly constitutes a good teacher. What works for you may not work for someone else, but that does not make the teacher any better or worse. One might argue that a teacher that is able to 'reach' many students on different levels (visual, feel, explanation) is better than one that cannot, but that is only western logic....

The more I read about this subject I start to wonder if Ueshiba did not on purpose 'neglect' to explain things. Perhaps he really felt that he cannot explain the unexplainable, if you know what I mean.

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* If you make a bad decision, you die.
* If you don't decide anything, you die.
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