To be a real teacher is to be a Master Learner. In the traditional classroom setting, teachers lecture students for time on end, pushing them for rote memorization, to pass the exams, not to learn for transfer. Don’t we want to help students to become life long learners? Don’t we want to teach them skills that they can use in every area of their life, to help them succeed as individuals, and not just in their educational endeavors? What about those students who do not wish to go to college? Can’t we still help them to learn the skills neccessary for life itself? To help them build their identities? How  can we do this if we do not learn who they are? If we alienate them? We need to constantly be learning along side of our students. We first need to learn who they are, what they like, how they learn. Then, we need to learn with them, learn the skills they have, the skills they need. We need to learn from them. Let them enrich our lives, so that we can in turn enrich theirs. We need to not put up wall so that we can adhere to new methods, new ways to reach our students. We need to constantly be learning about the world around us so that we can give the students the tols to open their eyes up to the world and want to question it, to change it. We need to not think that we know everything. There is ALWAYS something new to learn, always something exciting. We can learn these from our students, we can show them these things.