Metaphor as a Teacher

Dr Edwin asked us to come up with a metaphor that represents ourselves as teacher. Each of us comes up with metaphor that relates ourselves as a source of knowledge. He gave us a good example of metaphor from one of his mainstream students. The metaphor is teacher as a can opener. The reasons she or he choose this metaphor because teacher is someone who enable students in receive knowledge. It is a very good metaphor and it shows teacher is enabler for students in receiving knowledge. I told Dr. Edwin about my metaphor which teacher is a philosopher. The reasons why I choose this metaphor is because philosopher is not just a provider of knowledge, but they are more to allow people or students develop their thinking skill. For example, Socrates developed the Socrates’ Method in developing their thinking skills, questioning opinion and facts and become a critical thinker. After thinking about it, I do not think philosopher is a good metaphor. Dr. Edwin asked us to post something about our metaphor in the forum or blog. I need to come up with something beside teacher as a provider of knowledge.