https://makwaijun.com/tags/education/ Recent content in education on Introspections in Bytes Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020-2024, Wai Jun Mak Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:30:00 +0800 https://makwaijun.com/blog/post73/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:30:00 +0800 https://makwaijun.com/blog/post73/ As a (temporary) closure to the series of posts on education, I stumbled across Kurt Hahn. Who coincindentally, was also a founder of the high school that I went to (UWC). He is regarded as a Great Educator. But its an obsecure term, and I’m not familiar with what a “Greaet educator” meant. Its a little more relatable in other fields. A great Scientist; a great Chef for instance. But what does it mean to be a great educator? https://makwaijun.com/blog/post72/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:30:00 +0800 https://makwaijun.com/blog/post72/ And off that last post on Children, I dug up yet another related post in the backlog. This serves a partial book review on David Brook’s the Road to Character. *Afternote: gosh its been more than year between reading the book and actually posting this. * On Character As remarked in the previous post on education I see the need to manage ourselves well (Life-led) as equally important to academics. This is something that cannot be directly “taught” in a school, but I believe it to be critically important as the world becomes ever more complex, uncertain and complicated. https://makwaijun.com/blog/post51/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:00:00 +0800 https://makwaijun.com/blog/post51/ TLDR: I frame Education through a its aim to i) Conform to social requirements (social responsibility), and ii) Living Well (Individual responsibility). Ending tuition intuitively helps minimise domestic inequality - but the issue is far more complicated than it seems. In my last post, I wrote about the western glorification of the Asian education system, and tried to paint a fuller picture on the pros and cons of different systems. https://makwaijun.com/blog/post49/ Wed, 19 May 2021 23:00:00 +0800 https://makwaijun.com/blog/post49/ TLDR: Accelerate a diversity of experiences and the self-discovery of passions. Teach a kid curiosity, experimentation with execution, history and human nature. Preamble I am not a teacher. And I never have been - aside from a couple of volunteering stints here and there. But every now and then, I come across two running commentaries that keep popping up on the topic of education. First, is a narrative that lavishes praise on the academics of some Asian countries, including China, Korea, and Singapore.