Quality

[rinue]

Ciro and I were talking about our respective relationships with Ed and Val, and it occurred to me that the quality that makes a best friend is that they assume you know what you're talking about and work forward from there instead of questioning your data.

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[movingfinger]

You know, this is also an important quality in certain kinds of teaching. I just looked over at a project and thought, Yes, the teacher I had for that was like that. Took as a given that what the student wanted to do was a good and reasonable thing and offered assistance and training to help carry it out.