(Global Village Department Chat - Tianshi Notes vii)
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e broad-minded be tolerant toward others. A small-bellied chicken intestine is hard to make, but it is tolerant to others and tolerant of the world.
5. Open classes and elite meetings
Zhilan: What do you think of the aerial classroom?
Zhenyu: It’s very good. It’s the best among the best. It can meet the needs of different people. But to be honest, I only listened to it once.
Zhilan: Isn’t this contradictory? Just keep listening.
Zhenyu: I put a lot of effort into preparing it, but unfortunately my students are not geniuses. My classmates generally feel like they are listening to a book from heaven.
Zhilan: That's true. It's like writing an article, mostly for people to read. People can't understand it, so isn't it written in vain?
Zhenyu: You can’t say that. It’s not that everyone can’t understand it, just someone can understand it. After all, there are differences in people’s cultural level and appreciation of water quality. Those who can understand understand, let go of those who don’t understand. You can’t force others to make things difficult, and you can’t have thousands of people.
On the one hand. Of course, if you can’t understand it, you’ll be in big trouble. However, the ability to appreciate things seems to have a sense of the times. If this generation can’t understand it, it’s okay for someone in the next generation or the next generation to understand it.
Zhilan: Why not learn from Bai Juyi? His poems are suitable for all ages and are of great artistic value.
Zhenyu: Being able to achieve both social value and artistic value, and being easy to understand and explain in a simple way is a great skill.
Zhilan: The good side of open classes is that they serve as examples, but the bad side is that they are divorced from reality and can be misleading. It is impossible to have a class every day like an open class. Sometimes it is just for inspection or purely for show.
Zhenyu: I have actually seen a similar scene. The TV station is going to a certain place to cover. The leader puts other people’s good things in a certain house, and then takes reporters to promote the report.
Zhilan: It doesn’t seem to be an isolated case. Leaders need to save face and cannot be vague about their political achievements. In the same way, public lectures are appropriate and not suitable for the public to follow.
Zhenyu: It’s just like a tree is a tree and a flower is a flower. The two cannot change at will.
Zhilan: Just like a table of delicious dishes, it is not suitable for every guest. Some people eat it to nourish their bodies, while others eat it to aggravate their condition.
Zhenyu: So, seeking truth from facts is the highest criterion, and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is the best policy.
Zhilan: How do you teach students in accordance with their aptitude?
Zhenyu: It’s very simple. You must be willing to give up. Give up what you don’t understand, and guide students correctly based on the actual situation.
Zhilan: How to guide it?
Zhenyu: Independent learning is really a good thing. According to the progress of their own class, the students are very active by explaining the text and setting up questions and answers. The question and answer class every afternoon can be called a gathering of heroes. The students use their brains, think actively, and answer questions enthusiastically.
The atmosphere is lively.
Zhilan: It is indeed like a meeting of heroes, competing in skills and "showing their swords". I think, therefore I am, in humanities teaching class, thinking is the most important.
Zhenyu: When thinking positively and speaking enthusiastically, sparks of thought will flash from time to time.
Zhilan: Classroom is not just a lecture hall, everyone participates to promote growth. Online teaching returns to everyone, and a hundred flowers bloom to give full play to their specialties and achieve great results.
Zhenyu: The teacher guides, all sentient beings participate, think actively, and gain a lot.