If I think back to my primary school education, learning things by rote was a big thing: From multiplication tables to learning poems by heart, memorizing stuff seemed to be the name of the game. In high school it was all about irregular verbs and periodic tables. Sponging it up. Drilling it. And spilling it….
Online Teaching
Knowledge is Not Enough: An Invitation to Reconsider Common Beliefs
The average amount of time people in the West spend on “education” is huge. (Not to mention the sums of money!) Having a degree is not considered something special, anymore. It has become the norm. (And its absence – a new fear) People pursue degrees for mainly one reason: To get a “good” job. The…
Lifestyle
Instruction is a River Into the Mind
In Japanese, the kanji (Chinese character, the hieroglyph-ish stuff) for “instruction” combines two components. The first component is “words”: that which pours out of a mouth. This is the component, or “radical,” on the left. The second component is the radical for “river.” In itself, this kanji, on its own, represents a channel carved into…
