Thread:Demetrick7/@comment-6059462-20130122155914/@comment-6059462-20130125191410

Hmm so you are saying to be a mentor, you must have practice and experience over knowledge ?

So how does for example a History teacher teach History, even if he was born much later than the subject he was teaching? How can a Biology teacher teach Biology, if for example she has never bisected a human ? How can a Physics teacher teach you about Radioactivity, if she has never seen an atom's nucleus splitting ?

What I'm trying to say is that, yes, it's very good to have practice and experience, but when teaching it is also great to have a vast amount of knowledge. In practical teaching like these, you would need to have a great amount of knowledge to teach a student, probably more than the practice itself. But alas, that is my opinion :)

Although we cannot forget that an expert in a subject would be both heavily experienced first hand and highly knowledgeable in his subject. But no one is an expert here now is he ? ;)