Are you a temperamental bear?

When it comes to knowledge management, I often think of a story told by the Chinese teacher when I was in China.

She said that when the Northeasters are stupid, they will say that you are as stupid as a bear. In the season of the harvest in the northeast, many northeastern bears ran to the jade field to steal jade.

After these northeastern bears enter the jade field, they usually use their hands to steal the first jade, and then they are caught in the left hand, then use their hands to steal the second jade, then clip it under the left hand and pick it. Put another jade, and put it under your own armpits. Do you know that the last bear stole a few jade? One!" Because the bears open their knees every time, they have all the previous clips, and they have been dropped underground, haha!

Now, I am also a teacher. I often think of this bear story, but I can't laugh because I feel that I am not a "bear" with many students. How much knowledge do we really remember after many years of education?

Human beings have a very interesting education system. When a person is born, he has to be educated for 20 years before contributing to society. What is even more ridiculous is that in the moment before entering the society, he has learned everything he has learned in the past 20 years. forgotten. Students have to take many classes every semester and take a lot of tests, but as far as I know, after each test break, the students forget what they have learned. Year after year, this is not like the northeastern bear, thinking that he has stolen a lot of jade, and after leaving the jade field, he has nothing.

Recently, we advocate lifelong learning. It is undoubted that after the graduation of this bear, we will continue to pick up jade and continue to forget other jade. If so, what is the significance of education?

This reminds me of a passage that a foreign principal has said to the students during the freshman training. He said: "The knowledge you have learned at school, after graduation, guarantee that more than 80% will be forgotten. The purpose of education is to completely forget what you have learned at school. What else are you left?" In other words, What did we finally bring out Yutiantian?

I often joked to the students and said that the last thing left is "temperament." The school does not teach you temperament, but after you have been educated, your temperament will be different.

My students should not use too much effort and spend time on those subjects that will be forgotten in the future, because in the era of knowledge economy, many new knowledge does not allow you to spend too much to learn. It turns out that before each final exam, the ability of students to complete a semester course within one week is also a kind of "temperament."

In the era of knowledge economy and knowledge management, people must constantly learn and constantly forget what they have learned. The point is not how many jade you remember, but how much you have learned when you walk out of jade fields. Are you A temperamental "bear".

Lifelong learning, new things, forgetting past obsolescence

Step out of the campus, non-learning temperament