Mike Gallego, Sensei

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Mike Gallego, Sensei

Mike Gallego Sensei: True Friendship - How can we find true friendship in this often phony, temporary world? Friendship involves recognition or familiarity with another's personality. Friends often share likes and dislikes, interests, pursuits, and passion. How can we recognize potential friendship? Signs include a mutual desire for companionship and perhaps a common bond of some kind. Beyond that, genuine friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern, a desire to see one another grow and develop, and a hope for each other to succeed in all aspects of life. True friendship involves action: doing something for someone else while expecting nothing in return; sharing thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or negative criticism.
True friendship involves relationship. Those mutual attributes we mentioned above become the foundation in which recognition transpires into relationship. Many people say, "Oh, he's a good friend of mine," yet they never take time to spend time with that "good friend." Friendship takes time: time to get to know each other, time to build shared memories, time to invest in each other's growth. Trust is essential to true friendship. We all need someone with whom we can share our lives, thoughts, feelings, and frustrations. We need to be able to share our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will end up on the Internet the next day! Failing to be trustworthy with those intimate secrets can destroy a friendship in a hurry. Faithfulness and loyalty are key to true friendship. Without them, we often feel betrayed, left out, and lonely. In true friendship, there is no backbiting, no negative thoughts, no turning away. True friendship requires certain accountability factors. Real friends encourage one another and forgive one another where there has been an offense. Genuine friendship supports during times of struggle. Friends are dependable. In true friendship, unconditional love develops. We love our friends no matter what and we always want the best for our friends. Mike Gallego is a true tested friend for many years.

Mike Gallego, Sensei is the Head of Sekai Seito Goju Ryu Karatedo Kyokai and a highly educated gentleman of quality, educator and writer.

The characteristics of a great teacher are easily recognizable and it is imperative that this nation does all that it can to ensure that every child is taught by a great teacher. Mike Gallego, Sensei is not just great teachers, he is an exceptionally great teachers.
An exceptionally great teacher knows and loves his subject matter. He is not only able to teach it well, he is able to excite students about what they are learning. He demonstrates to them how the subject he teaches is relevant to their lives and to the communities in which they live. Despite his love of his subject, he recognizes that a comprehensive education means helping students master the subject mater. He respects those other disciplines and encourages his students to immerse themselves in the subjects they love. The exceptionally great teacher is not threatened by the notion that a student may be taking his class only because it is required, he is confident enough to know that he can engage that student for the time he or she is in class and bring to life the lessons he teaches. Although this exceptionally great teacher may be a Karate Sensei, he knows the importance of the arts, civic learning, world languages and all of the subjects that make up a good education.