Comments on: Honest and Realistic Guides for Learning

By: Jorge O Garcia

Jorge O Garcia — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:10:29 +0000

Kalid, Greetings from Bogota Colombia!

Extraordinary and amazing work. Many thanks,.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:37:00 +0000

In reply to Shirley.

Shirley, I find your comments interesting, and am a bit surprised to see no responses. However, I've just learned of this site and have yet to know its patterns. Whatever the case, I wish you luck on your noble quest!

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:33:23 +0000

OMG, I LOVE YOU!

I hope you're okay with that... Either way, thanks for being so groovy. I'm newly back in higher education, and recently began tutoring basic math. I wish I could fix all the terrible things education has done to students and their innate curiosity. I suspect I will be using your site a bunch, for a long time, for myself and others. Regardless that I've just now come across it. So, anyway, thank you, TTFN!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:40:34 +0000

Kalid, there should be another honest guide for teaching! Would be sort of a mirror of this, but basically, once you are in a role in teaching, people will assume you with deep and broad knowledge and they will trust you, so they will take every word you say seriously. Once they don't understand, most people will blame on themselves therefore don't even have the courage to ask a question! I used to blame myself being stupid if i don't understand something, but now, i am confident in saying that a lot of times there could be a common confusion deserving more discussion, so instead of pretending and hiding the issues, why don't we be honest in both learning and teaching so that we will be crystal clear about what we really understand, and we will know where we don't understand and that might suffice another round of digging. This is a healthy learning process as you are constantly resolving puzzles as you are building them.

But currently, I see we are just constantly building puzzles without even realizing it. The danger is there are tons of confusions out there, and when people confused get together, each with their own twisted version of the picture, as they start chatting, I feel it is like ducks talking to chicken: it is absolutely a chaos, nobody knows what others are saying, but everyone is confused. And everyone is more confused after the discussion...