We are not yet in the best place, but we do not have to stay where we are. A change is always for the better, and we have all been changed already, but no-one changes themself, and changes are not continuous, but happen in the fullness of time, at turning points, in crises. We cannot force change, but we can embrace opportunities, and let them take us to better places. Are you ready to embrace your next opportunity?
Despite all the loneliness, stress, anxiety, frustration and sickness in our lives, the joy of achievement can come to our life.
Do not ask what the lesson can bring to you; ask what you can bring to the lesson!
Please, don’t be an automaton: don’t simply memorise!
Please, be autonomous: analyse, evaluate, describe, summarise and synthesise!
It is not yet comfortable to work.
It seldom gives clear sound.
It does not generally present high definition.
It rarely offers three dimensions.
It hardly ever brings tactile experiences.
But already, it is NOT useless.
Information presented in one language cannot be represented easily and simply in any other.
And feelings expressed in one language cannot be conveyed precisely in another.
Documents written in a specific language cannot be translated exactly into others.
Relying on translations might be a necessary compromise, but it would be better to deal with the original versions.
Are you going to learn how to deal with authentic texts?
Learning is not pedagogy from a trainer; it is not training, conditioning, or schooling; not even self-training, self-conditioning, or self-schooling. Pedagogy can turn you into an efficient employee in an outdated industry, a useful member of a stagnant society, a smoothly operating robot, a cog in a wheel, an interesting relic.
Learning is education from a coach; it is discovering, noticing, keeping aware. Education can bring freedom of choice, flexibility, adaptiveness, personal and social progress.
Would you like some pedagogy or some education?
Keep sceptical, but without cynicism!
Keep autonomous, but with collaboration!
Just keep learning!
Do you ever feel that everything has been working in your favour, or that all the world is against you? Do you ever thank your good fortune, or blame your bad luck? I wouldn’t, if I were you.
The world owes us no favours and has got no opinion about us; it is neither well nor ill disposed towards us. Our achievements come down to serendipity, but our failures?
Our failures haven’t been due to the world around us, or to other, toxic people beside us. They’ve been due to our having lacked enough good-quality information at the times we needed it.
And it’s up to you whether you get and benefit from the direct experiences and personal reflections of the others out there.
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