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Zhengzhou, May 23:  Diary, a Chinese student asked me what is the most important thing she as a student should be taught by a teacher.  "Isn't it facts to learn?"  I thought for a moment and answered, "No!  It's what I call 'the Three "Ls."'"  She looked at me.  I knew she didn't understand.  So, I continued.  The most important thing I can do as a teacher is to help someone learn how to live a life driven by questions, to have endless curiosity about how everything fits in together. That's what my 'Three Ls' mean:  'Life-Long Learning.'  That's what life-long-learning is all about.  And, that is the most important thing, I as a teacher, can help a student learn to do."  

Diary, "life long learning!"  What does that mean?  It means being forever adventurous, impulsively curious, constantly dreaming, contentiously searching, annoyingly questioning, fearless risk-taking, endless experimenting, eternally "let's see-ing" and always opportunistically "what if-ing."  It means having growing pains until you're buried.  

She didn't understand.  

Make it a good day

-Louis-


Louis Schmier                          http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org       
Department of History                        http://www.therandomthoughts.com
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