Tag: beginning again

"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few." ~ Shunryu Suzuki.

There is a concept I learned while my kids were in Montessori education called scaffolding—a technique that is reflected in the goals of learn it, do it and then teach it. In this way, the student comes back to the same material in a natural spiral, each time the student is able to add to their understanding and expertise as they come to achieve some level of mastery when they become proficient enough to teach what they know. Our emotional, and for that matter relational development, shares that same circular spiraling motion; which explains the very common phenomenon of feeling like we are always somehow arriving back where we started.