It's Wiki Time

It's a wiki world. Who could have guessed that I would be helping to design a wikipedia web page today? Two days ago I did not even know what or who a wiki was. I thought it had something to do with Star Wars--go figure, I work with wood. Even so, I learned a handful today.
Has anyone ever asked you to define a word before? Sure. I suppose one has. But after you gave that person your answer, did he or she ask you to analyze it again and expand on your thinking? Then an hour later ask you to give a more integrated definition? Well, it hasn't happened to me before and I am glad it did because it helped to realize that there is much more to a word than a simple bland definition. Today I had the chance to define what a teacher and teaching are. After critiquing my initial general answer, and after a given opportunity to broaden my vision by our instructor, I came to the conclusion than in my field of technology, a teacher is much more than one who spews out information. The best thing that I realized today was that the best teachers put the burden on the students to learn. He also does not attempt to manipulate the student in becoming like himself, but he will teach in a way that allows the student to take what it taught and expand on it. I learned that a good teacher will influence the student to have a genuine disposition to procure learning on his own with a passion for the content. If the teacher does well, the student will not only learn well about the taught material, but also use it as a concrete base to take off and search for larger possibilities and opportunities.
The world of technology is like this in our day and age. If students were taught the same exact things yearly without the opportunity to expand on those ideas, then the technical world would never progress. Things like computers and other modern-day inventions would have never sky-rocketed in their innovations like they have within the last ten to twenty years.