From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The only one we need to compete with is ourselves, and, only through continuously, beating ourselves, we can keep on showing, the worth of our own lives.
Mr. Chen’s statement on the 20th, “it would be more effective allowing the students to teach each other”, he’d talked about how the students acted as teachers to help reinforce the lessons, and it’d have a better effect when the teacher’s taught the lessons in class.
There was a reader that left a message that moved me on my website, he’d told me: as he was preparing for the college entrance, he’d entered into cram school, “because I’d worked harder in the cram schools, the other students would ask me questions that’s major specific and I’d always answered them completely, never kept anything to myself, to me, that was, not just a sharing of information, but another lesson for me as well, it’d confirmed the things I’d learned, and, it’d also helped me gain a lot of friends.”
“And, because of my sharing the information, they’d all gained knowledge and happiness as well, back then, I didn’t feel, that if I’d taught them and they’d understood, I may score lower than they would, instead, I’d believe, that I could learn so much more from the experiences; and, because there were more and more others who’d come to me, to ask me questions, I’d even set up a study group. I’d told them, what you’d learned from me, if I’d asked you to teach it to someone else, then, you must, most of them lived up to my request, although not all of them shared everything that they’d learned passionately, but, I was able to find a lot of others who shared my beliefs, that we’d ended up, helping one another, and sharing our experiences too.”
This reader had, gotten in, to his first choice without any trouble. Of course, all of his classmates who’d studied with him, friends who learned from him, also got into, good schools as well. The same things happened to our son, some thirty years ago, when Ken was still in high school, he’d told me, that he believed, that being able to teach someone else meant, that he really understood the materials! And so, “teaching others IS learning” is true, he not only learned that he had improved his knowledge base, and also shared the joys, of those whom he’d helped out, and what’s more, he’d gained some friends.
Why would it be easier, for kids to teach kids, rather than discussing the material, it’s more on how the kids can relate to one another better, because they’re at the same age group, and their thoughts are similar, are on the same levels, which makes it easier, for them, to take one another’s words. If out of a class period, the teachers could spare fifteen minutes to separate the kids into groups, so they can talk about the lessons in casual conversations, so they could get more inspired, and, learn naturally, from this process of interactions. This, is using the multifaceted education methods, to see the results of the lessons being taught.
Learning and sharing is two sides of the same mirror, we must constantly learn, also, share nonstop, so, we could grow, as individuals and as a society. Of course, the power that stems from how everybody in an organization is willing to share, can’t be interpreted as an addition, but exponential properties.
And so, because the kids can relate to each other on their own levels, that, is why having students teach students is effective, and, through teaching one another, the student who is teaching others is also gaining more knowledge base.