Siheyuan: Returning from studying abroad, with extraordinary understanding

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Lin Changqing considered that he would not stay here for too long, and since he was going to teach people, he naturally had to teach them well.

How to teach someone?

He has been thinking about this problem.

In later generations, when he was in school, the teachers used a rote learning approach. After class, they required you to listen attentively and then assigned a lot of homework.

After entering junior high school and high school, the number of courses increased from Chinese and mathematics to seven or eight subjects, but the homework did not decrease.

Except for those who were smart and had good memory, most of the students failed to learn well.

Besides, most of those things won’t be useful to you after you graduate.

He kept wondering at that time, what was the point of studying so many subjects?

Until later, I saw a video saying that the purpose of learning so many subjects is to train your thinking.

Chinese exercises your thinking, communication and expression skills.

Mathematics exercises your logical thinking ability. It emphasizes reasoning, proof and logical consistency. Through the process of mathematical reasoning and proof, you can exercise logical thinking and rigor.

and many more.

After watching the video, he suddenly realized.

However, the teachers at school did not teach him.

Teachers always talk about content, not thinking.

So, even after studying for more than ten years, I feel like I haven’t learned much.

After Lin Changqing's understanding improved, he sorted out the knowledge system in his mind at noon and understood the problem while thinking about it.

Therefore, he did not teach the five people in the traditional way.

Now, we need to add a step that is not included in traditional teaching - summarizing general methods.

Lin Changqing stood beside the podium, looking at the five people's curious eyes, and said:

“Before I explain the general method, I would like to ask you a question.”

“Have you read On Practice and On Contradiction?”

"I have seen it!" the five people answered in unison.

"It's good to have read it. What is the general law of human cognition of things summarized in On Practice?"

Lin Changqing interacted with the five people.

"I know this. First, people's understanding of things comes from practice and then goes back to practice. Practice, understanding, practice again, understanding again, the movement of understanding is constantly repeated and infinitely developed."

"In terms of form, it repeats itself endlessly; in terms of content, each cycle of understanding and practice advances to a higher level, deepening and improving step by step."

Song Jiajia answered very positively,

"There is another point: people's understanding of things is a process that starts from sensibility and then leaps to rationality."

"Very good, Jia Jia's answer is very complete." Lin Changqing gave her a thumbs up.

Then he continued:

"This law is a general law. There is another way for people to understand things, that is, to learn from their predecessors. This kind of learning does not necessarily start from practice."

“But in essence, it conforms to this law, because the knowledge learned has been practiced by our predecessors.”

"Now, we have to start from scratch."

Lin Changqing then raised a question:

“When we learn about something, what is the first thing we should do?”

Faced with such a question, the five people were stunned and didn't know how to answer.

Seeing that no one answered, Lin Changqing encouraged:

"Say whatever comes to your mind. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong. Just speak out boldly."

"See?" The voice was low and uncertain.

Lin Changqing heard it, it was Li Qingyue's voice.

"Yes, it is to look and observe. To understand a thing, we must first 'look' at it."

"However, there are many ways to 'see' something, because some things cannot be seen or touched, such as wind and sound. For these things, other things are needed to indirectly prove their existence."

"However, there is no need to go too deep into this. To put it simply, in order to understand something, we must first know what it is!"

It was so simple that the five people suddenly realized.

Yes, to understand something, you must first know what it is.

Lin Changqing continued to explain:

“Once you know what it is, the second step is to understand how it evolved.”

“Only by knowing its characteristics can we better transform it and make it serve us.”

"The third step is to ask why. Why is it like this and not like that? This is an extension of studying the evolution of things."

"Now that we know why, we can consider replicating it under the same conditions and let it serve us."

"Through these three steps, we can basically understand a thing."

When Li Qingyue heard Lin Changqing's explanation, she immediately thought of the ten questions just now and suddenly understood Lin Changqing's intention.

This made her very excited and her heart beat faster.

She really wanted to share with everyone that she understood Lin Changqing's intention.

But Lin Changqing was here and she had no chance to speak.

At this point, she really wanted Lin Changqing to ask questions so that she could share her discoveries.

She tried hard to suppress the excitement in her heart, but the blush on her face betrayed her.

Lin Changqing noticed her excited look, but he didn't know why she was suddenly excited.

Therefore, he did not stay on Li Qingyue for too long.

At this time, he felt a little interesting, so he said to the five people:

"Does anyone know what the characteristics of the topic I gave you are?"

"I know!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qingyue stood up and answered.

She was so excited that the notes on her lap fell to the ground.

She immediately bent down to pick it up.

"Don't be anxious, take your time."

"Ok!"

When she heard Lin Changqing's words, she blushed immediately and made a fool of herself in front of Lin Changqing.

She kept shouting in her heart that she was going to die and it was so embarrassing.

Lin Changqing's questions made her feel that Lin Changqing could understand her thoughts.

She stood up so quickly that she immediately realized she was too hasty and felt a little embarrassed.

Picking up his notes and trying to hide his embarrassment, Li Qingyue stood up and spoke:

“I found that the questions designed by Comrade Changqing were designed around the aspects of what, why, and how.”

"He wants to tell us that our understanding of things should revolve around these three aspects."

After saying that, his eyes were fixed on Lin Changqing.

Lin Changqing smiled and said:

"That's right, Comrade Qingyue is right. This is also the first method I want to teach you."

"However, we need to add one more thing, summarizing the patterns. See if we can summarize the patterns and migrate them to other places."

"You will encounter many things and problems in the future. As long as you can start from these three aspects, you will be able to basically understand things and solve problems."

"Next, we will give examples to illustrate that learning something should be applied."

“This not only consolidates knowledge, but also deepens understanding and awareness.”

After that, Lin Changqing asked the five people to give an example respectively, starting from these three aspects, so that they could use this method more skillfully.

However, this method also has limitations.