Ben's+Philosphy

media type="custom" key="20520994"

John Butler's song "Ocean" is arguably one of my top 10 favorite songs ever written. The song has no words, just merely him, playing a 12 string guitar for roughly 8-14 minutes. What I love best about this song is A.) it is simply beautiful, B.) It always has a phenomenal climax and C.) it is never played the same twice. He is continually tweaking and working on the sound/melody of the song. If you listen to a bunch of his live versions of the song, you'll realize that they are never played identically. Obviously there is the overall structure of the song, but in general, they are always different. Therefore, why am I stating all of this? This song touches upon a teaching philosophy of mine. As a teacher, we may never actually change the student directly, or deter their amount of intelligence, though, what we can do is help them along, in the greater scheme, so then by the end, they may have something substantial. Furthermore, as a teacher, I hope to continually encourage students to not be satisfied with what they already have, or what they have already learned. It is important to seek more and more knowledge, and change your opinions with that knowledge, in hopes to have something great, much like John Butler's "Ocean". media type="youtube" key="LsnFvEQYJPU" width="425" height="350"