The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward
When I conduct training, I like to share the ideas of learning the reference points instead of learning the fact and remembering them.
I think it is through telling, explaining and demonstrating that we transfer our learning and knowledge on certain subject matter, which is limited in range.
If we can lead them to learn by "referring" to the pool of knowledge with good indexing tools or reference points, the power of learning will be endless.
With the "reference learning method", one can expands on the knowledge domain and boarder one's zone of understanding.
Do not be afraid that you cannot remember all the facts and details, no one does.
If you know where to get and verify the facts and details when you need them, you will have no problem of creating your knowledge domain in the long run.
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Japan's 97-year-old physician educator offers advice for seniors
I just received the following from an email through a good friend and here is my summary with additional info and links after searching the web for supporting sources:
Author/Physician Shigeaki Hinohara
By JUDIT KAWAGUCHI
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Japan's 97-year-old physician educator offers advice for seniors ~ Japan Times
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090129jk.html
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators.
Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. ...
top medical facility and nursing school.
Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies.
As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.
All people who live long — regardless of nationality, race or gender — share one thing in common: None are overweight.
Always plan ahead.
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.
Share what you know.
When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure.
To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.
My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler."
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it.
Don't be crazy about amassing material things.
Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors.
Science alone can't cure or help people.
Life is filled with incidents.
Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do.
It's wonderful to live long.
Read the full text and look at the photo of Author/Physician Shigeaki Honorary at
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090129jk.html
Words to live by
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl-jk-all.html
is the series of over 150 stories written by Judit Kawaguchi.
If you find this story inspiring, you may like to read other stories by the same writer to get more inspiration!
Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler" in full text is available from:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abt-vogler/
In the Armstrong Browning Library, the central double window in the Entrance Foyer represents Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler" (http://www.browninglibrary.org/index.php?id=48319) and I like the Poetry for Lower Section of Window:
On the earth the broken arcs;
in the heaven a perfect round.
I read the poetry and like Shigeaki Hinohara's comment:
"It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance."
If you like to understand more about Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler", just google for more info or visit the following links:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abt-vogler/
http://www.browninglibrary.org/index.php?id=48319
Hope you enjoy reading this summary!
Cheers
Dexterine Ho
Author/Physician Shigeaki Hinohara
By JUDIT KAWAGUCHI
Judit Kawaguchi loves to listen. She is a volunteer counselor and a TV reporter on NHK's "Out & About." Learn more at: http://juditfan.blog58.fc2.com/
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Japan's 97-year-old physician educator offers advice for seniors ~ Japan Times
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090129jk.html
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators.
Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. ...
top medical facility and nursing school.
Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies.
As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.
All people who live long — regardless of nationality, race or gender — share one thing in common: None are overweight.
Always plan ahead.
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.
Share what you know.
When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure.
To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.
My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler."
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it.
Don't be crazy about amassing material things.
Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors.
Science alone can't cure or help people.
Life is filled with incidents.
Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do.
It's wonderful to live long.
Read the full text and look at the photo of Author/Physician Shigeaki Honorary at
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090129jk.html
Words to live by
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl-jk-all.html
is the series of over 150 stories written by Judit Kawaguchi.
If you find this story inspiring, you may like to read other stories by the same writer to get more inspiration!
Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler" in full text is available from:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abt-vogler/
In the Armstrong Browning Library, the central double window in the Entrance Foyer represents Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler" (http://www.browninglibrary.org/index.php?id=48319) and I like the Poetry for Lower Section of Window:
On the earth the broken arcs;
in the heaven a perfect round.
I read the poetry and like Shigeaki Hinohara's comment:
"It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance."
If you like to understand more about Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler", just google for more info or visit the following links:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abt-vogler/
http://www.browninglibrary.org/index.php?id=48319
Hope you enjoy reading this summary!
Cheers
Dexterine Ho
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
By teaching that we teach ourselves
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves,
by relating that we observe,
by affirming that we examine,
by showing that we look,
by writing that we think.
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
Being a Librarian in the first part of my career, I had been asked by many friends and library users the following question:
"You must be reading a lot, hence acquire a lot of knowledge, right?"
I think my ex-library colleague from NIE gave a very good answer in the form of "counter questioning":
"Do you think being a staff at a bank, counting a lot of money every day, makes the banking staff a rich person?"
I think librarian touches a lot of books in the process of work and read a lot of book cover, book spine, call number and contents pages etc...
Being a librarian in the pass few decades, and now a library trainer and assessor, I may have easy assess to books in many libraries and searched and found useful information in many databases.
Yet all the books and information were irrelevant until I have a need to match the knowledge for some internal or external needs.
In very small way, I read to acquire some information and knowledge to fill my personal quest.
In most of my working hours, I was not acquire in-depth knowledge, but fight against time to fulfil daunting tasks of find information on behalf of library users. I learn to acquire the key to information and knowledge. I hold the key, yet the treasure in the room is not in my possession.
Hence, I search the OPAC, online databases, academic journals and indexes in the book more often and do it much better than general public.
Being a librarian, the job is to acquire the searching skills and browse many unwanted inform before we find the right one we need for our users.
In the process, we enrich our knowledge of "access to information" and very likely, we can and may deploy it if we have the time for the "knowledge tour" and become knowledgeable in a field of study!
If we are able to do it better than other, we are given the opportunity to teach, hence, "it is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think."
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
by relating that we observe,
by affirming that we examine,
by showing that we look,
by writing that we think.
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
Being a Librarian in the first part of my career, I had been asked by many friends and library users the following question:
"You must be reading a lot, hence acquire a lot of knowledge, right?"
I think my ex-library colleague from NIE gave a very good answer in the form of "counter questioning":
"Do you think being a staff at a bank, counting a lot of money every day, makes the banking staff a rich person?"
I think librarian touches a lot of books in the process of work and read a lot of book cover, book spine, call number and contents pages etc...
Being a librarian in the pass few decades, and now a library trainer and assessor, I may have easy assess to books in many libraries and searched and found useful information in many databases.
Yet all the books and information were irrelevant until I have a need to match the knowledge for some internal or external needs.
In very small way, I read to acquire some information and knowledge to fill my personal quest.
In most of my working hours, I was not acquire in-depth knowledge, but fight against time to fulfil daunting tasks of find information on behalf of library users. I learn to acquire the key to information and knowledge. I hold the key, yet the treasure in the room is not in my possession.
Hence, I search the OPAC, online databases, academic journals and indexes in the book more often and do it much better than general public.
Being a librarian, the job is to acquire the searching skills and browse many unwanted inform before we find the right one we need for our users.
In the process, we enrich our knowledge of "access to information" and very likely, we can and may deploy it if we have the time for the "knowledge tour" and become knowledgeable in a field of study!
If we are able to do it better than other, we are given the opportunity to teach, hence, "it is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think."
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
On teachers and delusion
We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion.
We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else.
Perhaps once in a thousand times, when the explanation is extraordinary good, and the listener extraordinary experienced and skillful at turning word strings into non-verbal reality, and when the explainer and listener share in common many of the experiences being talked about, the process may work, and some real meaning may be communicated.
Most of the time, explaining does not increase understanding, and may evenlessen it.
-- John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator
We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else.
Perhaps once in a thousand times, when the explanation is extraordinary good, and the listener extraordinary experienced and skillful at turning word strings into non-verbal reality, and when the explainer and listener share in common many of the experiences being talked about, the process may work, and some real meaning may be communicated.
Most of the time, explaining does not increase understanding, and may evenlessen it.
-- John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator
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