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Metaphor of Inhaling and Exhaling To Explore Interpersonal Communication

Biological breathing as a form of paradox includes inhaling and exhaling. From my point of view, interpersonal communication among people, especially among teachers and their students, is a specific mode of 'sociological breathing', metaphorically speaking. In the classroom the teacher and students should communicate by a system of 'inhaling' and 'exhaling'. If the teacher allows himself to speak for most of the time during the teaching without mutual and deep communication with his students he cannot create a favorable atmosphere in teaching. “Learning does not happen when students are unable to ...