As you know, we have two neighborhood home-school kids who meet with our workshop group twice a week at the care center across the street.
As their tutor, I ask myself: What do these children need to know?
Maybe a better question is: What does THIS child need to know? Because to me every child is different--and every individual needs to know different things.
Lucky--we don't have a classroom here loaded with 35 kids all the same age but all with different needs!
Two kids is almost perfect--one teacher for two children--brother and sister a year or so apart in age!
The old people are also there--but just there. Their day is almost done. They watch the kids with more or less interest--some may try to communicate a little--but mostly they are just there in their wheelchairs.
Maybe THAT is the lesson they are teaching--and it may be a powerful teaching--a lesson stronger than I could ever teach in words or diagrams. They teach by their presence.
Old people darshan, maybe?
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