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Teaching Precepts
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Docendo Discimus...We learn by teaching. When by yourself, you are the instructor.
* You don't know what you don't know.
* Much of what you think you know is incorrect.
* Together, we must find out why you don't know what you don't know.
* It is practice of the right kind that makes perfect.
* You will never do well if you stop doing better.
* Students never fail, only teachers do.
* A student's performance is not so much a reflection on the student, as it is on the instructor's ability to teach.
* Learning is not a straight line up...let the teacher set the standards of performance.
* Much of learning to fly is to unlearn preconceptions and habits.
* Unlearning is a very necessary and difficult part of learning to fly.
* The way you are first taught and learn a procedure is the way you will react in an emergency. It's important to learn right the first time.
* You learn according to what you bring into the situation.
* Being prepared for a flight saves you money by saving time.
* Given the choice, make the safe decision.
* If you must make a mistake, make it a new one.
* One problem is a problem, two problems are a hazard; three problems create accidents.
* It's great to be good; even better to be lucky.
* Trusting to luck alone is not conducive to an extended flying career.
* We progress through repeated success; we learn through our mistakes.
* An instructors knowledge is proportional to the mistakes he's made.
* Good habits deteriorate over time and bad habits take root.
* Accidents happen when you run out of experience.
* Self instruction is the garden that raises bad habits.
* Our failures teach us. If you want to increase your chances of success, double your efforts.
* ... almost always. Nothing is always.
* Luck will do for skill, but not consistently.
* One should never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity in a teacher. It challenges the teacher, too, when occurring in a student.
* The nice thing about a mistake is the pleasure it gives others.
* If you fly long enough the 'answer' is going to be "Carburetor Heat".
* Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
* You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
* Flying, like life, is full of precluded possibilities. Can't do...won't do... shouldn't do...
* What you know is not as important as what you do with it. |
Gene Whitt
gwhitt@ix.netcom.com
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