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Teaching is useless

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無足夠資料 9 | 數學教育 4 |　What is statistics? 2 | 軟硬智力 10

Intellect is invisible to those have none.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

Teaching is useless. Information is useful. Although intelligence can seldom be increased, giving relevant information to a GOOD person so that he can fully realize his existing intelligence potential is always useful.

The intelligence-absorption principle should actually be called the information-absorption principle, because intelligence cannot be increased directly.

「智攝原則」應該改稱為「資攝原則」，因為你沒有可能，直接增加別人的智力。你可以做到的，就只有透過給予相關資料，去加快別人智力潛能的發展。換句話說，你只可以破除無知，而不可刪減愚蠢。

Information is just like technology: Intellectually challenging to create doesn’t mean intellectually challenging to use.

— Me@2011.11.10

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

– Galileo

2012.09.23 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

The Divine Michelangelo

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Michelangelo was now preparing for the end and how he would be remembered by history. He began to destroy drawings and poems he didn’t think were good enough [in order to create the myth of the divine artist]. He even attacked one of his last works of sculpture: the Florentine Pieta, which was intended for his own tomb.

— The Divine Michelangelo

— BBC

2012.09.20 Thursday ACHK

香港科技, 2

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這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 27 日的對話。

美國 Silicon Valley（矽谷）的 intellectual power（才智實力），其實是建基於 科學、科技 和 科幻 的文化。而這類文化，是累積多年而得來的，而不是只靠大量金錢，在短短幾年間，就可以得到。

James C. Collins 在他的《Good to Great》中，用了 flywheel（飛輪）作比喻。香港見到矽谷的飛輪轉得很快，於是買了一個飛輪回來，企圖聘請很多「大力士」把它轉動至高速。殊不知，即使有很多「大力士」，飛輪都是極之難轉，加速得奇慢。別人的飛輪可以轉得那樣快，是因為別人的「大力士」，已為飛輪加速了幾十年。

— Me@2012.09.08

The Flywheel: The additive effect of many small initiatives; they act on each other like compound interest.

— Wikipedia on Good to Great

2012.09.08 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Meaningful 5

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X is meaningful

= You can keep developing X

= X always has next steps

1. If you have a lot of good intellectual and social connections, you can keep having the next steps.

2. Action is a good way to create the next steps and decrease uncertainties. 

— Me@2012.05.14

2012.07.10 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Games for Change

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Games for Change (also known as G4C) is a movement and community of practice dedicated to using digital games for social change. An individual game may also be referred to as a “game for change” if it is produced by this community or shares its ideals.

The Games for Change Festival

Since 2004, Games for Change has hosted the Games for Change Festival in New York. Often referred to as “the Sundance of Video Games”, the Games for Change Annual Festival is the biggest gaming event in New York City. It brings together leaders from government, corporations, philanthropy, civil society, media, academia, and the gaming industry to explore the increasing real-world impact of digital games as an agent for social change.

— Wikipedia on Games for Change

2012.06.24 Sunday ACHK

Feynman’s Blackboard, 4

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數學教育 2.2 | 種子意念 2.1.7

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

– Galileo

知識不能傳授，只能靠學生自己發現創造。

老師的角色是引發思考，加速發現創造。

— Me@2011.10.18

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

— On his blackboard at time of death in 1988

— Richard Feynman

Whatever created has context.

So it is difficult to misunderstand or forget.

— Me@2011.10.18

2012.05.30 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

數學教育 2

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種子意念 2.1.6

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

– Galileo

知識不能傳授，只能靠學生自己發現創造。

老師的角色是引發思考，加速發現創造。

— Me@2011.10.18

To be catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

– Theodore Zeldin

2012.05.28 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK