In that context, it definitely makes more sense. I agree that if you are a music teacher you might know how to teach singing, but not necessarily have a good voice yourself - there is a certain amount of something above knowledge that has to go into play there.
I think in a way still it's more of an asset to be able to not only do, but also teach what you do. It demonstrates a higher level of understanding for what you're doing, which I guess is my point. The phrase "those who can't do... teach!" always seems to imply to me that you can teach it but not do it which is usually not the case. Not do it well, I'll give you - but you can't teach singing if you can't identify key. You can't teach someone how to change their brakes if you can't yourself do it to explain it, etc. It's just sort of a weird phrase to me I guess.
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:16 pm (UTC)I think in a way still it's more of an asset to be able to not only do, but also teach what you do. It demonstrates a higher level of understanding for what you're doing, which I guess is my point. The phrase "those who can't do... teach!" always seems to imply to me that you can teach it but not do it which is usually not the case. Not do it well, I'll give you - but you can't teach singing if you can't identify key. You can't teach someone how to change their brakes if you can't yourself do it to explain it, etc. It's just sort of a weird phrase to me I guess.