Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
Interpretation
Coaching focuses on facilitating personal growth and self-discovery rather than directly imparting knowledge.
This quote emphasizes the essence of coaching as a process that empowers individuals to unlock their inherent abilities and optimize their performance. It suggests that effective coaching is about guiding learners to find their solutions and insights, fostering an environment of discovery rather than merely delivering information.
In practice
In a speech about personal development at a conference.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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