When I was a second year Philosophy student, the head of the department asked me to present a lecture to his first years. The theme of my lecture was to be an introduction to the philosophy of Rene Descartes, that French mathematician who changed the face of Philosophy with his method of radical doubt, his mind-bending thought experiments, and of course, the starting point for his philosophy that kept many undergraduates awake at night – the cogito ergo sum. Now, I was not a teacher. I had never been trained to teach. I was just a student, and a second year, at that. And although I had been employed as a philosophy tutor that year, I’d never had any training on how to be one of those either. It was, as they say, “fly by the seat of your pants” time. 89 A Journey of Innovation
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