Agreed. I was just thinking, just because someone weighs 350 pounds,
doesn't mean they know anything about good food, does it?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Ruel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Mike Yale" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Mobiliy Instructors
> Mike, I agree with you that any person with the right qualifications
should
> be able to teach, and sight shouldn't be one of those qualifications.
> However, blindness won't automatically give one the qualifications to
teach
> either, otherwise the driving lessons my father gave me, complete with his
> bad habits, would have to stand as lessons from a Driving Instructor. As
> much as I love the man, his having sight and a Drivers License didn't
> automatically make him an instructor, and by the same token the fact that
I
> am blind doesn't make be an instructor either.
>
> Thx, Albert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Yale" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Mobiliy Instructors
>
>
> Hi Lynn, I noticed this email and just thought I would mention that I have
> known a couple of totally blind white cane users, very excellent cane
users,
> who quite successfully taught other blind folks to use a white cane. This
> occurred some years ago in the San Francisco Bay area, where I lived. On
> one occasion myself, I worked several days with a blind person who didn't
> want to wait for a spot to open up at the local orientation centre, and I
> believe my teaching was adequate, if not good.
>
> Prejudices against certain employment opportunities still exist, and are
> hard to kill.
>
> I was told that a blind person couldn't negotiate switchbacks trails in
the
> Alps with a dog guide, but I did it on my own. I was told that blind
> teachers couldn't possibly maintain discipline in a regular sighted class
> room, and yet blind teachers have done so and do so today.
>
> The quality of the instruction and of the teacher is what should count,
not
> an impairment or other factor which may not be relevant but only
> traditional.
>
> Not sure if that is useful, but one man's opinion,
>
> Mike Yale
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynn Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:55 PM
> Subject: Mobiliy Instructors
>
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