Heed Your Conscience - Thanking the Teachers 1 - Mrs Eggleston

In this first 'thanking the teachers/thoughts on the guru' episode, I give thanks to my third year junior school class teacher, Mrs Eggleston. During my schooling I was fortunate to have some wonderful teachers. I also encountered and survived others whom I would describe with different types of adjective. But I had enough great ones to help me learn at least to some degree how to learn. Mrs Eggleston impressed into my awareness some of what I consider the most important teachings of my whole school career, including: - Don't do something just because someone tells you to. - Someone telling you to do something is not necessarily a good reason for you to do it. - Just because other people are doing something doesn't mean you should. - You should know WHY you are doing what you are doing. Who is it serving? Is it serving you? Is it the right thing to do? Is it what your conscience is directing? - Ignorance is not stupidity. Just because you don't know doesn't mean you are stupid. It means you don't know. When you are honest about not knowing you give yourself the chance to learn. - When you don't know, acknowledge it, ask and see if you can find out!