When teaching becomes walking
Weโve spent decades living under the idea that someone else knows better โ that authority lives โout there,โ in titles, credentials, or followers. That era shaped us to look for pre-existing knowledge, for answers, not to listen for them. Iโm really glad to sayโฆ the age of experts is ending. That model is collapsing. The new way isnโt about teaching from above. Itโs about walking beside. Weโre shifting from โDo what I say, Iโm the expertโ to โI can guide you, so you become an expert, too.โ Real leadership doesnโt demand obedience. It awakens self-trust. It doesnโt create followers. It creates more leaders. The best teachers say: ยซย Iโll walk with youโฆ close enough that you donโt get lost,but far enough that you find your own footing. I wonโt protect you from your own experience or from yourself,because what youโll learn from standing upwill anchor deeper than anything I could say. As a teacher, my role isnโt to make you follow me. Itโs to help you trust yourself so completelythat one day, you wonโt need me at all.ย ยป The best teachers make themselves unnecessary. Because the real work now isnโt to teach others what to think,but to help them remember that they already know. The era of authority is closing.The era of empowerment has begun. Do you see that too? And if soโฆ How does that shift show up in your world?