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I’m noticing a worrying trend emerging from the net. It comes in the form of offering expert advice, but when you study the mechanisms behind it, the teacher is not really teaching students. Instead students are used as distribution channels per head, and the return to the teacher is increased for every head.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not really against the profit-thru-distribution model itself. What erks me however is the promise that these teachers make to these untrained students who are yearning to really learn. Here are key questions:

• Compare what you will find out after going through the course versus what you were promised initially. What did you really learn? Really.
• What meaning is there in using the euphamistic labelling of “coaching”? It is a cherished tradition for the teacher to have had the experience, skills, track record or having been trained in a proper institution to then have the necessary means to teach. Without having much, and attempting to claim to be able to teach, what meaning is there? Is there any?

The internet’s structure and the form that is Web3.0 allows for a rich and diverse pot of growth. Unfortunately, what comes with it is also a whole dish of pseudo schemes. Again, I’m not targeting the scheme itself, but rather the methods of execution. Under the guise of teaching students, when you jolly well know the bigger picture, I urge you to put aside the claims of “teaching them knowledge” and all, and sincerely ask you…

What is your motive for action.

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