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Lightning a fire

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誰終將聲震人間，必長久深自緘默；誰終將點燃閃電，必長久如雲漂泊。

— 尼采

Teaching is not filling a vase, but lighting a fire.

— Michel de Montaigne

Teaching is not filling a vase, but lightning a fire.

— Me@2005

教師任務　點石成金

— Me@2007.08.21

燭燃閃電　點石成金

— Me@2010.11.28

2011.09.30 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

缺乏寫作靈感

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這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 6 日的對話。

對話比演講或者寫作容易得多，因為對話時，你只需要考慮第一句說什麼，然後根據對方的反應，就自動知道第二句應該說什麼。除了第一句之外，你幾乎毋須作任何的盤算。

只要把自己和別人的對話錄音，然後把那些錄音改編成文章。就可以完全避免了「缺乏寫作靈感」的問題。

— Me@2011.09.27

… if you can’t get started, tell someone what you plan to write about, then write down what you said …

— Writing, Briefly

— Paul Graham

2011.09.27 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Disappointed

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My high school teachers in mathematics were excellent. We studied rather advanced topics in mathematics. I had no difficulty with them.

However, I was rather disappointed that my physics teacher was not good enough. The fundamental intuition in physics was not established during my high school year. I regretted it up to now.

— Shing-Tung Yau

2011.09.19 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

好為人師 2

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（安：有人說過，不要好為人師。但是，我發覺我偏偏好為人師。我應怎樣改掉這壞習慣呢？）

「好為人師」未必是壞習慣。那要視乎你教人的目的，主要是為了教導別人，還是為了表現自己。

如果別人主動提問，你的意圖又是令聽者得益的話，「好為人師」就是好事。

如果你未經別人的同意，又或者你的意圖是為炫耀學識的話，「好為人師」就是壞事。

— Me@2010.11.26

— Me@2011.07.25

2011.07.25 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

好為人師

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（安：有人說過，不要好為人師。但是，我發覺我偏偏好為人師。我應怎樣改掉這壞習慣呢？）

比喻說，你拿了一個獎，才會想炫耀。當你拿了很多獎後，自然不再想炫耀：

第一，沒有必要：你拿了很多獎的話，即是你實力非凡。你不會再心虛時，就再沒有炫耀的動機。

第二，炫耀全部獎牌的話，工程浩大。

第三，炫耀部分獎牌的話，又要考慮拿哪一些，不拿哪一些出去，庸人自擾。

隨著你的知識逐漸增長，思考日漸成熟，你就自然不會再「好為人師」。

— Me@2010.07.19

— Me@2011.07.21

2011.07.21 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Batteries included

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The Haskell Platform is a collection of software-packages, tools and libraries, which is to create a common platform for using and developing applications in Haskell. With the Haskell Platform, Haskell follows the same principle as Python: “Batteries included”.

— Wikipedia on Haskell Platform

The quality of a programming language itself is only one component in the ability of application writers to get the job done. Programming languages can succeed or fail based on the breadth and quality of their library collection.

— Haskell: Batteries Included

— Duncan Coutts, Isaac Potoczny-Jones and Don Stewart

2011.06.20 Monday ACHK

Khan Academy

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The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006, by Salman Khan. With the stated mission of “providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere”, the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.

— Wikipedia on Khan Academy

With so little effort on my own part, I can empower an unlimited amount of people for all time. I can’t imagine a better use of my time.

— Salman Khan (educator)

2011.06.10 Friday ACHK

A Fraction of Algebra

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As a mathematician there is a story I hear a lot. It tends to come up whenever I tell someone what I do for the first time, and they admit that they don’t really like, or aren’t very good at, mathematics. In almost every case, if I bother to ask (and these days I usually do), I find that the person, once upon a time, was good at and liked mathematics, but somewhere along the way they had a bad teacher, or struck a subject they couldn’t grasp at first, and fell a bit behind. From that point on their experiences of mathematics is a tale of woe: because mathematics piles layer upon layer, if you fall behind then you find yourself in a never ending game of catch-up, chasing a horizon that you never seem to reach; that can be very dispiriting and depressing.

— The Narrow Road, Zen and the Art of Mathematics

2011.05.12 Thursday ACHK

70/20/10 Model

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The 70/20/10 Model is also used as a Learning and Development model, according to the Princeton University Learning Process.

    * 70% of learning & development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving.

This is the most important aspect of any learning and development plan. For example, the real learning from a skill acquired in a training program, or from feedback, takes place back on the job when the skill or feedback is applied to a real situation.

    * 20% comes from feedback and from observing and working with role models.

    * 10% of learning and development comes from formal training.
   
   
— Wikipedia on 70/20/10 Model

2011.03.14 Monday ACHK

向左走 向右走

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Left brain functions

Right brain functions

sequential

simultaneous

analytical

holistic

verbal

imaginative

logical

intuitive

linear algorithmic processing

holistic algorithmic processing

mathematics: perception of counting/measurement

mathematics: perception of shapes/motions

present and past

present and future

language: grammar/words, literal

language: intonation/emphasis, prosody, pragmatic, contextual

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— Wikipedia on Lateralization of brain function

— Me@2008.01.13

— Me@2022-01-23

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2011.03.03 Thursday ACHK

Endless sea

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Teaching is not filling a vase, but lighting a fire.

-– Michel de Montaigne

Teaching is not filling a vase, but lightning a fire.

— Me@2005, 2010.01.05

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

2011.01.18 Tuesday ACHK