Zhengzhou, May 26: Diary, I once read how Herb Brooks, coach of the "miracle" 1980 American Olympic hockey team that won the Gold Medal, and Phil Jackso, Zen master and pro basketball coach, began their coaching with philosophy, with reflective purpose, not strategy or tactic. Wonder what would happen if we academics had a deeply reflected up and articulated philosophy of education and teaching, and began our classroom careers with our philosophy instead of someone else's lecturing, testing, grading methods? Wonder what would happen if we first profoundly asked a "why" of we do what we do before we merely described or did a "what" we do. Wonder what would happen if we honestly know what is important to us and figured out how to live our values. Wonder what would happen if we really know and make the concerted effort to know and pay full attention to who is in the classroom with us. Wonder what would happen if we notice, are awake to, listen to, are aware of, are attentive to both to ourselves and to those around us. And, I wonder what would happen if we used all what we experience. I ask because I know that's what I had to do when I began to make myself over from professor to teacher in the early 1990s.
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