haa.. finally time to write

haa.. finally time to write

I had been sitting for a two week course on an introduction to what education is all about. I went in with certain expectations and ended up realising that I had brought the wrong set of assumptions with me. It used to be the thinking that it is the process that is important, when we get the process right, we will get the right result - something alike the production line idea. Well, I guess that is where the idea is limited to because it does not work in education. I am inspired and challenged to realise that education is what the teacher is. The system is never above the educator but learning is very much a response to inspiration. A notable and inspiring teacher Howard Hendricks remarked that effective teaching is causing people to learn, and learning is not only concerning mental understanding, it is very much connected to living our daily lives. Well, I do not find learning much stuff that could be worth considering in daily life, you might say. I felt that way too, when I was still in school. However, things begin to add up when I step into the working life. Almost all I have learnt provided me with concepts and the basic understanding so I could involve more of the abstract stuff. I found it interesting to learn about certain developmental tasks related to our thinking which differs and ascends in complexity as we age. I was told that before we get to adulthood, our learning and thinking ability is largely concrete. This makes sense to me now because I was never interested in matters like philosophy and I disliked abstract art simple due to the fact that I just could not get it. When we become adults, our think tank becomes fluid and we are more capable of handling abstractions and conceptualising matters (I seriously think this is how all things nano come about). I guess that is why in certain areas of my intellect I am a late starter. That is not all bad. I just realised a good thing being in the thirties entitles me to - there has been a boost in my thinking capability and in my reading and understanding speed. It is like as though the entire S curve moved upwards. Perhaps it is all the assignments and all the dealing with people. Perhaps it is like what people say - may you age like wine? But I still do not know how to appreciate abstract art. Haa...