JassWolf -> RE: *screams bloody friggin murder. (5/1/2006 2:53:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: zebra Well, perhaps you could think of it this way. If you consider yourself a teacher and you've spent your time pouring your knowledge into someone, perhaps it isn't completely horrible that she'll spread that knowledge beyond you? That's kind of the point of learning -- and of teaching. As a teacher who -- not only in D/s but in the sort of classroom where people get grades, degrees, futures, etc. -- taught for many years with a passion, commitment to the group and to the individuals, and to the subject matter, I think it's good to acknowledge that there are many who enroll (not the same as "students," you know) who will nod sagely and work eagerly ... but never learn a thing -- at the end of the course, as at the start, all that concerns them is "the grade." When you see them the next semester, they will no longer be able to recognize you, let alone be willing to greet you with the eager, hopeful smile they used while you had their name in your gradebook. And yes, I see that part of my life as an analogy for my mentoring role as dom. The salvation that makes it possible to continue is: with practice I think it became much harder to fool me into thinking someone in my classes who was a pretender was an honest-to-god student. In D/s, prolly because of the passion required, I find it much harder ... but hope I can learn here too to see, or maybe to just "feel," the difference. JW
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