2012年11月12日月曜日

11・12 The last class of Patterson.

The class on today was the last class of ARW in Autumn term. This class, as a whole, was not too difficult and not too easy. I think Mr. Paterson is good at taking a balance of difficulty with observing students. I wonder this is a great way of Great Britain's great universities. In Japanese educational culture, it is not so easy to find, at least for me, the ability to observe and watch students well, and to select the best way for learners. In my experience, teachers have given same information in same ways to all students. This is because, I guess, in Japan, there are only smaller presentation culture compared with the UK and perhaps the U.S. What I learned from Rab Patterson is to express information in the best way both on paper and presentation. Surprisingly, Buddha said the same thing. Buddha prohibited meaningless spells and said that Buddhists must teach his ideas in a spoken language (appropriate language in a situation) in order to deliver information to listeners heart. I recalled that when I was in a class.