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Nouman Ali Khan

The Person Who Changed My Teaching Style Forever Q&A

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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She walks in. First day, steps on the chair and steps on the desk, stands up on the desk,

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opens up a kid's book and says, once upon a time, there was a lion. But I'm listening to this like,

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whoa, that's amazing. That is one of the most profound lessons in education I ever learned in my life.

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So, Stan, you had a lot of impact on a lot of people. Even me, you've had

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much of a lot of impact on so many people. I just want to know who had an impact on you and

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doesn't know it. It might not even know it. Okay, so a lot of people have had impact on me,

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but a person who has had impact on me, profound impact and has no idea, would probably be an older,

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female professor at a Delphi University back in 2000. And I'm going to say three,

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2004. Long story short, I got a job as a chaplain at a Delphi University in Long Island.

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So, part of the perks of the job was I could audit any course I wanted in the university.

1:34.8

I could sit in the class like I'll fly in the wall. So, of all the courses I could choose,

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I chose kindergarten education. So, these are certified teachers that are getting further

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education to become better kindergarten teachers. Okay, so they're all professional teachers

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and the person teaching them, of course, as a PhD in early education, and she's going to teach them

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teaching techniques to kindergartners. And I'm sitting in this class in the back like I'm just

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observing. I took this class like dedicated. I really immersed myself in it. And I didn't even know

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I only took it because it fit my schedule, right? But I didn't know the impact it was going to have on me.

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First day of the class, these are all, remind you, professional teachers that have masters degrees

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and they're working in schools. So, they're all adults, they're no college kids, they're all adults.

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She walks in, she's older, she must have been 65, 70 maybe. She walks in. First day,

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