15 Sep
Teaching at university is at both a rewarding and a challenging experience… which is where that commentary grew out of. The editor went over it quite heavily, I must say (I did not speak of morons – but the article does have more flow now). Beauties of learning matter more than certificates We begin learning [...]
2 Nov
Global Times, Nov. 1, 2009 Update: Later, this article even made it into the Chinese edition (translated, of course – and not by me)… kinda funky. Chinese and foreign commentators, often at odds with each other, are of one mind when it comes to China’s younger generation.
2 Jul
China’s education system: good for communication and creativity?, Global Times, July 2, 2009 Much is being said about China’s education system. Whether gaokao is the best – or at least fairest – system possible or a way to test nothing but nerves and rote memory; how education supposedly destroyed rather than promoted creativity; or simply [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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