About teachers 1

Education is an ability of animals. Every child, no exception, learn survival sills throughout their younger age. It all begins with basics.

No, here what I want to mention is not academical definition of education but my some thoughts toward education.

Education seems alike to growing plants. You will patiently wait for the seeds coming out. It may take for a long time. Some wont come out no matter how you wish. Some surprisingly grow beyond your imagination.

A big difference is that education can pass students down to the next. Educators should never give upon their students. If students are not growing up, you need to reflect yourself. You will make your best efforts to improve your students.


Teachers can be arrogant very easily. Since after graduation, people who teachers encounter basically are kids. In addition, there are few objective eyes which checks teachers' performances. Most of the time, teachers themselves are the objective eyes. Otherwise, they may become a tyrant in class.

Writing Skill 1

George Orwell left us tips of writing better English sentences.

He protested against domination of vagueness in English writing. He states that short sentence and using everyday phrases ease the understanding of readers.

Here is his main point...

1. What am I trying to say?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

And he will probably ask himself two more:
1. Could I put it more shortly?
2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?


1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to
seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of
an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.


I will probably take them into my considerations when I am writing.


George Orwell "Politics and English Language"
http://mla.stanford.edu/Politics_&_English_language.pdf

メモ

人間が存在しなかった頃に一念三千という概念は存在したのか?　人界という概念も字を見ても分かるように、人間が生まれてからこの概念は出現した。　それ以前の恐竜たちにも一念三千論は対応できるのか?　私たちはどうして人間に生まれ変わることができたのか?　どのような業を積むかによって来世が変わってくるのならそれを判断する基準は何か?　やっぱり閻魔さま的な自身の生命の価値を判断するものが死後には待ってる?


生命は永遠に流転しているという仮定する。　生命の始まりに地獄、餓鬼、畜生界はあったけど人界以降はなかったんとちゃう?　恐竜に人界があったとは思えへんし。　一念三千はもっと多義的で恐竜にも応用可能な概念なんか？つまり、法華経は宇宙の真理と考えて、人間が強く生きていくために人間用に応用した概念と考える。


ちなみに人間が生まれてなかったらこの概念は生まれてこなかった。という意味においては仏教は人間出現決定論的な意味合いをもつ?　逆に人間が生まれ来なかったら宇宙の真理も解き明かせなかったってこと?　


でも、もし、人間より知能指数が高く、力も強い生物Aが出現して法華経を学んだとする。そうすると彼らは、人間を例えば畜生の一員として見るんじゃないか?じゃあ、人界が畜生界に統合されて謎の生物A界が出現する?　そんなことって仏陀は予測したんやろか?
謎の生物Aの存在は仏法を使って論理的にどうやって説明するんやろ?



頭の中で考えたことをメモ書きみたいな感じでずらーーーっと書き出してみただけ論理的に破綻してるし、自分でなにいってるんかもよく分からへんところもたくさんやけど、ふらふらたどり着くことのない答えに向かって考えることって面白い。　21世紀イマジネーションの旅。