Posted by ? on July 26, 2002 at 12:44:03:
In Reply to: Re: Are you good friends with your teacher? posted by KC Elbows on July 26, 2002 at 11:20:09:
i'm glad that your experience has brought you to a teacher that you can have such a relationship with
i have to ask - almost entirely rhetorically
does this brotherly relationship diminish your ability to learn or your respect for your teacher
i ask because the only experience i have with an ma teacher-student relationship was in an organization that holds the belif that students must see their instructors as being on a 'higher-level' on all aspects of life
this goes hand in hand with their perception of students as being comparable to children beyond the realm of martial arts
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