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Brushstroke 1: Knowledge Transmission and Mastery.
Lately, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in China, helping our friends — coaches and canoeists from Guizhou province — improve their approach to preparation and competition. In my imagination, I often see myself as a 教練 (Jiàoliàn, coach), meticulously teaching my students with care, respect and discipline. This type of teaching raises an interesting question: What happens when such a personalized relationship takes place? How can we differentiate it, for example, from the work of a swimming instructor supervising 14 seven-year-olds during a class from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.? Today’s reflection focuses on distinguishing between knowledge transmission and mastery. The former is a […]
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Brushstroke 0: The Reverse Pointillism.
During my time as a (poor) philosophy student, I found myself briefly fascinated by the ideas circulating in Europe at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. Upon closer reflection, the development of that Europe has striking parallels with the current trajectory of emerging countries. In both contexts, social and industrial changes occur at such a rapid pace that they are hard to grasp for ordinary people, who have only a single lifetime to attempt to name and understand the transformations reshaping their surroundings. Émile Durkheim called this phenomenon “anomie,” the inability to conceptualize or mentally structure the profound […]
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