A long-term patient of mine once accused me of being a ‘human doing’ instead of a ‘human being’.
I must have written about this 5 years ago but it came back to me again last Thursday.
We ran the first of our new face-to-face ‘standard operating procedure’ courses for The Campbell Academy and it was more of a success than I could have ever imagined.
I have no choice but to believe that we will crave face-to-face contact in education and the online interaction will have it’s place but it will never substitute face-to-face teaching in education events.
Last Thursday was a clear demonstration of this.
As is always the case in our courses we’re able to speak openly and honesty about stuff that’s going on and although it might be a self-selecting group who are happy to attend; everyone was desperate to be back and by the time it got to lunch time on the implant surgery day the whole place was buzzing.
People were laughing, joking, interacting and just delighted to be able to communicate with people outside of the small circle that they’ve been involved with for months.
Too much of my life is spent doing and not enough lifting my head up and seeing the clouds and just talking to people who are friends but the education part of the work was always supposed to be like that and it’s back.
We must not delude ourselves into thinking that there is depth in online education. There is not.
It fills a certain gap but as long as we’re human beings the face-to-face element in education will still be critical and essential.
Blog Post Number - 2472
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