Training, Learning and the Instructor's Role: Part 1. Learning and the Instructor's Role

Abstract

It would be an interesting question to ask how many of the people reading this article see themselves as machines—on a par with a motor car for example or a transistor radio or a pocket calculator. I feel I am on safe ground if I predict that less than one per cent of you habitually think of yourselves in this way. Possibly I would be equally safe in suggesting that less than one per cent of you see yourselves in these terms even for a few minutes once a year. In fact very few people see themselves as either simple or complex machines. I know this to be true for myself and for most of the people I have ever met. The really fascinating thing is that personally I find it very, very easy to see every other human being as a machine. I am in a position to know that inside me is an “I”—as self. I consider my body to be an extension of that self. The problem is that I cannot see the “self” or the “I” in you. All I can see is the body, the extension of your “self”.

Citation

James, R. (1981), "Training, Learning and the Instructor's Role: Part 1. Learning and the Instructor's Role", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002363