How Tolerance Can Be Embraced

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Helen Keller

In broadest definition, a teacher could be an ant.  It can teach us how it travels, where it travels, and what it seeks.  This is true of animals and human beings.  Each movement made can be showing one other a way to do something.  (Children are especially good at imitating our lesser behaviors.)

It is interesting when we specialize in a trade or position, we often take our specialty for granted.  Then we are surprised when someone asks us how we manage what we do.  It is important to see ourselves as an individual honing in on given gifts meant to be brought into the world.  It does not matter to what length we teach or share.  To give brief exposure to what we think or do can propel a different individual into their own unique field.

In this process of handing down particular knowledge, we in turn become aware of what the other person is capable of doing.  They may not be able to work our trade, but they have their own thoughts which can in return inspire us.  It is through this learning process we can learn respect for others.  We are not all the same (Thank Goodness!) and our culture can aspire to tolerance of diversity.