I no longer remember precisely what it was that got me thinking about it, but:
It's really important that we create an environment where it is safe to not know something.
Not in a neglectful kind of way, where we're complacently not trying, but in a the sort of way where it's ok not to know yet, and it's so ok to ask questions, to try out incomplete ideas, to say the sentence half in your native language, half in the one you're studying, to take a stab at it, and try -even knowing that your effort is going to be half-baked and incomplete.
Because there is so much learning in the trying.
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I like this. It's important to always have someone you can safely ask when you have a question. Some people ridicule and belittle when they're asked questions, sometime not even waiting for a question. Some people don't; they're the safe ones. They're the ones you can learn from.
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