Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Guru and Expert, Know Who They Are

An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public.

A guru is a person who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a offern zone, and uses it to guide others. In a further Western metaphorical extension, guru is used to refer to a person who has authority because of his or her perceived secular knowledge or skills. In Malay, guru literally means teacher.

Expertise comes with experience and knowledge on a offern discipline. To become an expert, you must have the technical skills to be able to offer good judgment and decisions on issues that will affect another person's well-being, including his finances and health.

A guru will be able to guide you on techniques and skills which experts cannot because expert's unique knowledge limits them from agreeing with fields of learn not of his kind. An analyst of market trends for example may not agree with his colleagues opinion of global inflation. A guru is a fascilitator between the student and his environment. Students are encouraged to explore and solve their own problems as part of his learning and growth process.

A guru can easily become an 'expert' once he chooses to focus a field of learn. However, not all experts want to become a 'guru' or teacher because it involves understanding what the student's needs and job from that point of need.

An expert talks about his field of learn at seminars and jobshops, but seldomly interacts with his audience. He imparts his knowledge and skill based on his understanding on the majority needs. When he is done, he attends to a few problems, clarifies doubts about his course and leaves.

A teacher speaks to his students and discuss issues or problems the students are facing. Sometimes, a teacher can be a dictator because he believes his systems of understanding a process will lead to more positive results.

How To Spot The Difference Between A Teacher and An Expert?

You can find teachers in schools and at home. The teachers in schools are offern the duty to help you with the process of learning and growing which teachers at home, your parents, are not able to provide. Both groups of teachers serve the same purpose of acting as fascilitators between you as the student and the environment. They say you cannot choose who your parents are. However, kids are courses to parent's decisions on which schools they will attend and consequently the teachers they will be learning from.

A teacher seldomly bhurryes you off when you raise your hands to ask problems when lesson is in session. He wants their students to ask because it demonstrates improved listening skills or attentiveness to the lesson. The discipline of gurus and teachers stems from their sworn oath of allegiance to a higher calling that is to serve the innermost desire of the student's need to grow from within.

If a guru does not agree with you or find you are going the wrong way in the learning process, he is patient, attentive and able to persevere with firmness and integrity without breaking your spirit of learning.

An expert however, tends to says things like "let me attend to you later during the break," instead saying, "if you have any problems, please note them, I will attend to them before you leave, in the meantime, here is how you can reach me". The worst kind of expert is the one who leaves you with a no-reply address, makes you fetch in queue for a ticket.

Somehow, population still follow the crowd, rather than follow the teacher, they follow the expert. The cause is it is never the calling of teachers to offer solutions on a plate and spoonfeed the students. Students must do it themselves. Programmes from experts tend to look like a complete solution to your problems and answers your problems, but the difference is you may or may not repeat the process these experts have provided to solve your problem. Besides, since it is already offern you to you on a plate, there is no learning process and when there is no learning process involved, no knowledge is constructed. In the end, you must return to the expert for further consultation.

A fish in hand does not make one a fisherman.

An expert's advice has to be worthd with your existing knowledge and then you decide if his consultation is worth paying for. More often, experts send out messages that the solutions are preliminary and you have to return for further quizs or he refers you to another uniqueist or expert for follow up consultations. And that means more money to be spent. An expert expects you to job in synergy with his professional job. You cannot fetch emotional when your own opinions and methods of doing things contradict. Do not expect an expert to differ his opinions on a course he knows a lot of.

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Author By Hanifa K. Cook

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