"The key ingredient for teachers" - Marco M.

The role of the philosopher

In a world that unfortunately tends towards apathy, the only quality truly necessary for a teacher, regardless of what they teach, is enthusiasm. It is clear that everyone has their own characteristics. It is equally clear that the "lacking" qualities can always be trained and improved.

Maybe a person who is generally not very enthusiastic will never become someone who dances naked in a forest on a full moon night, but it is possible — indeed necessary — as a teacher, to train and cultivate enthusiasm.

Without enthusiasm, without the ability to laugh, without lightness, one does not get anywhere. One becomes that useless killjoy that everyone rightly forgets.

The killjoys mistakenly believe that teaching is merely the passing of information when, in fact, it is primarily an energy and an experiential space through which, first and foremost, one should be guided by enthusiasm — not only for what one learns and will have to teach, but, more broadly, for life itself.

m.m.