Over the holidays I ran across some photos from a presentation I did shortly after I was amputated in 2005.

I went from being a normally active person that ran and cycled to an above knee amputee cancer survivor.

I remember this was an ‘in-between’ time. for me You can’t go back and forward was dark and unknown.

Laying in my hospital bed I really didn’t know what to do and thought ‘Well, this isn’t going to grow back, so I better get used to this and go forward’.

The term Pedagogy and pedagogue come from the Greek paidos ‘boy, child’ plus agogos ‘leader.’ We tend to usually say something is ‘pedagogical’ if it is easy to understand and teach. The underlying assumption is that if it is easy for children it is easy for adults to learn.

But the thing is adults and children don’t learn the same way. There is another similar word ‘Andragogy’ that describes how adults learn.