My reasons for teaching the last fourteen years were learning, children, and the wonder of the gestalt phenomenon. I always learned from the children how to best design my instruction for them. Children are gifts to us, adults, and the future of our nation. It is important that they learn how to be productive in our society. Finally, gestalt is the state of knowing or understanding something new as the learner puts the individual pieces of one concept together for the first time. The bigges.