Hi Bitiz,
Many thanks for such a positive message with links! I will check the links out. I am basically a cheerful person, else I could have been flatten by all the incidents that have happen so far. so don't worry too much about it.
I think I can learn from a lot of people here on this list alone. I see quite a number start their postgraduate late. But the crazy thing of some of my personal experiences are that some people tend to tell me to not study at all because of the age. I think some people of these people may be on this list. I wonder why, as I am not that old yet; and I know a good number of people do their postgrad at my age. One had abruptly and explicitly threw it in my face to say so as I am female and no longer in the usual age group for postgraduate studies. And since I was 'getting old', he suggested I dropped studying on my own or go to college totally. He even expressed this by gesturing. Not very nice and I doubt I would forget that incident. I looked on and I didn't take his condition of giving all ideas and potential patents that could come out from just renting the lab. I dropped the whole idea and walked off.
Learning has no limit on ideas, aspirations et cetra. Not even age can stop one from learning. To laugh at people who start their study ventures at an 'out-of-the-range' age is even worse. It also shows the shallowness of one's education aims and objectives.
As for books, I think we do not have as much as what can be found abroad. I also have a limited space at home of how many books I can keep. Right now I stack and used up wall space. So I try to learn from other ways instead. We can't buy digital books here properly for some reason, so that cuts off a lot of possibilities to get digital sources...
What I want to start off doing isn't that big. But it appears that 'space of any kind' is a great concern. I often return home and get amused instead. Apart from putting this irony into packs of humour, I can't be any wiser if I had chosen to 'cry'. I *will* grow heaps of white hair if I did.
Not worth the grey strands and/or pain for rubbish. Take a break and cool down to review the crap looks like a better choice. :)
You wrote: 'The important thing is to realize what we can do to change things, using the knowledge they have already achieved. That's why I believe you can.'
I think change is collaborative. I wrote that in my modest blog too. Change cannot happen from one. It comes from all. Every can. :) and so can you too!
Cheers,
Karen Fu
Looking on and sitting on this tiny piece of land.
On 6 Nov, 2012, at 19:28, Bitiz Afflalo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Karen
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> Someone told me you can get digitized books in the British Library. I never used it, but it might be interesting to try. See the link to the book The essential tension of Thomas Kuhn.
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> http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&vl(174399379UI0)=any&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1352193259873&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&indx=1&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=Thomas+Kuhn%2C+The+Essential+Tension&vid=BLVU1&fn=search&fromLogin=true
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> In some cases, when I can't buy a new book, I turn to used books. And sometimes we group together for purchasing online. I generally get them on the Amazon books.
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> http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Tension-Scientific-0226458067-0-226-45806-7/dp/B00A0A2GHU/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352193865&sr=1-5&keywords=The+essential+tension+of+Thomas+Kuhn
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> My academic career is a little different than most. For about thirty-five years I worked as a designer, with some periods of teaching and research. Finally I became a teacher. I am 67 years old. When I finished my master's degree I was 63 and now I'm in Paris in a very interesting research.
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> If people like Edgar Morin [91] Françoise Choay [86] Umberto Eco [80] David Harvey [77] are still working; if one of the latest research on nanotubes is driven by a lady of 90 years in the U.S. [I forgot her name], I can still have plenty of time ahead.
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> The important thing is to realize what we can do to change things, using the knowledge they have already achieved. That's why I believe you can.
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> Keep on going. Be happy!!!!
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> Cheers
>
> Bitiz
>
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