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The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream.

A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.

Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was.

He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. “Oh, God”, he thought, “what a strenuous career it is that I’ve chosen! Travelling day in and day out.

Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell! ” He felt a slight itch

蔡淇華:每天在發問中找答案

 

文/蔡淇華

今年指導的網博和校刊都拿了金獎,詩社學生也拿了三十多個文學獎,昨日電視台記者問我指導的要訣,我思索一下,回答:「我會帶著學生一起對世界發問。」

「對世界發問?」記者有點疑惑。

「是的,問對問題,比答對答案更有威力!」

同仁喜歡稱我「點子王」,其實這個稱呼應該翻譯為「喜歡發問的麻煩鬼」或是「對什麼都不滿意的嘮叨大伯」,因為我喜歡纏著同仁發問:「我們要如何提高學生打掃的責任感?」、「可以創造服務體驗的傳統嗎?」、或是「藝術季延長到三週可不可行?」每個提問,都可能帶來自己與同仁新的行政負擔,所以…是的,連我都感覺自己是個令人討厭的人。

但每次我開始發問後,我的大腦就停不下來,覺得可以讓環境更好,為什麼不做?當看到國際學生玩模擬聯合國時,我馬上詢問美國學校,一起玩好不好?當我見到學生沒有打招呼的習慣,便每晚苦思推行「品格校訓」的發法;當一校經費邀不起評審,我可以詢問友校共辦文學獎的可能;當學生說出遊學的夢,卻負擔不起高額的費用時,我問自己,有沒有可能找一所姐妹校,共辦落地招待,讓學生負擔一半的費用。

我習慣把心中的疑問寫在記事本上,暑假整理書架裡累積十幾年的記事本時,驀然發現,我的提問,全部成真了,是的,敢想,就會成真。

所以我喜歡邀請同學到我的桌前:「來,提出你的問題,我們就可以開始創作了。」

大部分人可能以為創作是天馬行空,其實,創作背後的「主題」才是靈魂。而對這個「題目」的「叩問」,是一切創作的核爆點。一個問題的發出,是創作者與世界連結的再釐清,他一定是擁有與他人不同的視角,看到哪裡不對勁了,覺得那是自己的天命或責任,覺得不把它做出來會對不起自己,然後去尋找適合的素材來表達,例如文字、色彩、建築、或是音符,在慢慢與天地詰問間,只要題目問對了,需要的資訊和技巧都會跑來服務,最後「創造」了一個「作品」。

所以發問是責任感與想像力密切互動的結果,而發問時的「動心起念」,是一切創作的源頭。但每一位老師都知道,幼稚園的孩子最喜歡問為什麼,國小低年級的孩子還樂意舉手,但中年級後,「課程」慢慢加重(天吶,我們為什麼有那麼多永遠教不完的課程),老師教不完,學生背不完,上課一發問,進度就趕不上,甚至實驗多做幾個,就「沒時間考試」了。

我們的學生習慣「命題作文」、習慣有「標準答案」,被「教育」制約了他們的好奇心。他們害怕自己找的題目,怕考試不會考;他們害怕想像力太狂野,會跑出「標準答案」的疆界,所以,他們漸漸失去了好奇與發問的勇氣。我們正在教出越來越沒有「發問力」的下一代。

「臺灣半導體教父」張忠謀認為學習只是一種input(輸入),如果沒有經過internalize(內化)的過程,去發問,去發展出自己的思想,那不叫思考,如果想做些與普通人不同的事,非具備思考與發問能力不可。

我們多們期待,我們的下一代,積極思考,大膽發問,勇於表達。

當2003年正在喝下午茶的吳政學發出「有沒有可能把五星級的蛋糕以平價在街頭販賣」的疑問時,85度C王國有了堅實的基石;當穆罕默德‧尤努斯開始思考「微型貸款是否可以幫助孟加拉的貧民遠離高利貸的威脅」時,世界上數百萬窮人有了脫貧的契機;當人生美好一戰已打過,54歲的張忠謀問自己:「半導體有沒有可能扎根台灣?」台灣「電子大國」的夢開始成真。

自己學校學生中,最積極思考,大膽發問的,大概是鼎鈞了。

鼎鈞為台灣奪得國際物理奧運金牌,他申請許多課程自學,整日呆在圖書館做題目,我常常看到他一做就是兩、三個小時,時而沉思,時而振筆運算。去年得到國際數學奧運金牌後,鼎鈞受訪時表示不是很喜歡被稱為天才:「其實我每天都在發問,所以有做不完的問題,尋求解答。」鼎鈞母親的一席話更是震動了我:「鼎鈞會在網路與同學討論、找資料、向老師發問,有時還會被一個題目卡住好幾天,或許進步慢,但建構出來『解決問題的能力』,『都是自己的』。」

什麼是「解決問題的能力」?什麼是「都是自己的」?

鼎鈞的學習方式很像我帶社團的方式,那是一種PBL問題導向學習(Problem-based learning),學者吳清山認為此種學習植基於建構主義,認為學習是在社會環境中建構知識的過程,而不是獲取知識,它是讓學生在真實世界的環境中,將所發生的實際生活問題形成案例,大家共同討論,並提出問題解決之道。

同仁問我為什麼那麼熱衷帶社團,那是因為,我早忘光了以前上課的東西,但以前對「真實世界」叩問所得到的學習,現在正扎扎實實成為我知識架構的骨骸血肉,帶著我繼續去界定世界的疆界。所以我會瘋狂的帶著學生去發問:「台灣併排停車的問題可不可以根絕?」、「一中街可不可以改變?」,甚至「品格籃球可不可以五年內改變一萬個學生品格?」

我們學習,不一定在課堂裡,但我們學會了思考與表達,至於表達後得到多少獎,已經不重要了,因為我們知道,未來的桂冠是會掛在有「學、思、達」習慣者的頭上。

台灣的老師其實已察覺到目前教育的危機,例如中山女高的張輝誠老師從翻轉教室的概念談起,反思如何讓台灣從過去填鴨式的教育,走向「在課堂上透過不間斷的提問和討論,訓練出學生自學、思考和表達能力」的學思達教學法。

我們期待這群勇於向體制叩問的老師,可以帶出勇於向世界叩問的下一代。是的,試問今日之域中,竟是誰家之天下?惟發問者,得天下!

 

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原文刊載於蔡淇華老師Facebook,未經許可不得轉載

 

魏崢:證照是否等同專業能力?

 

文/魏崢

對在醫界服務40年屬資深醫師的自己,執業執照過期在即,卻收到未符合換照標準的通知,老實說真令人感到萬分錯愕,原因是缺少修習「性別議題」的課程。

換言之,也就是在換照前若沒有補足經學會認可的「性別議題」學分,我這醫界老兵將喪失施行手術、看門診等一切執行醫療行為的資格,而且效期不得展延。這可嚇壞了接到通知函的秘書,據瞭解因講授相關課程的師資要求嚴謹,課程極少,所幸本院近期即邀請了講師講授相關課題,才解除了可能喪失執業執照的危機。

同樣因為換照問題,困擾著一位近年旅居美國的醫界朋友,多年前他自美返國擔任國內某醫學中心心臟外科主任,數年後因為個人因素,決定暫時返美離開台灣的臨床醫療崗位,但為了修習換照所需的教育積分,這些年他只好兩地奔波,極其辛苦。前些時候,聽聞他想放棄外科專科醫師證書時,不禁翻騰著惋惜及憤懣的情緒。

人才是國家最重要的資源,而優秀的專業技能之養成又非常不易,同樣是蕞爾之地,吸引海外人才進駐是新加坡長期的政策,反觀台灣,則是對留住專業人才設下重重的限制。資深的專業醫師,不但有一身功夫,更是後生晚輩臨床治療時隨時可請教的活字典,但若沒有於時限內補足教育積分,就喪失了換取專科醫師證書的資格。

以心臟外科醫師而言,外科專科醫師證書、心臟專科醫師證書、心臟外科專科醫師證書是最基本須取得的證照,若要保有這三張證書,每年平均須取得260個教育積分,近年衛福部「緊急醫療能力分級標準」條例又規定,專責加護病房照護醫師,更須具備重症專科醫師證書,因此,有機會照顧心臟加護病房患者的醫師,則要再多取得此份證書。而民國98年底衛福部公布了「人體試驗管理辦法」,凡施行涉及人體試驗之研究計劃,其計劃主持人六年內,還須有人體試驗30小時以上相關訓練證明及醫學倫理9小時以上研習證明,原來臨床工作已甚繁重的外科醫師,願意撥空從事研究已屬難得,現在每年卻要再多修習人體試驗相關訓練課程,才能符合具備研究計劃主持人資格,說實在真的令人疲於奔命,但又不得不做。

記得民國96年應朋友之邀一起到中國大陸參加醫師執照的考試,當時在筆試前,得先進行實務操作測驗,項目包括問診、聽診、觸診、放置胸管、導尿管等,大陸著重臨床操作技術評測這一點令人深切覺得值得我們借鏡,文字測試對檢驗台灣醫學生七年醫科學習成就或許適切,但對外科醫師而言,是否有能力執手術刀就另當別論了。所以,一位成熟的外科醫師,是需要投注大量的心力學習手術技術,以累積治療病人經驗。以我個人為例,為繼續保有六張專科醫師證書及執業所需的證照,每年必須取得教育積分約450分,這勢必排擠臨床工作時間,甚至為了因應評鑑,還得上病人安全、醫學倫理、感染控制及傳染病防治等課程,犧牲掉大量臨床學習時間,缺少實務的學習,無怪乎新一代醫師常治得一口好病,甚至被譏諷淪為「開葯單」、「開檢查單」的機器。

《老殘遊記》作者劉鶚在書中曾提道:「贓官可恨,人人知之,清官尤可恨,人多不知。蓋贓官自知有病,不敢公然為非;清官則自以為我不要錢,何所不可,剛愎自用,小則殺人,大則誤國。」許多規範的制定者,自認立意良善,卻沒有考量施行面的問題,甚至聽不到各方意見,專擅妄為。專業的養成不是上幾堂課進行文字測試即完成,必須有術科的評點做為配合,否則這樣評核機制下的證照是否等同專業能力,將值得商確,或者只是徒具形式的專業證書罷了。

 

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原文刊載於遠見華人精英論壇,未經許可不得轉載

 

王文華:里港國小有個音樂傻子

 

文/王文華

對屏東里港的認識,好像就是好吃的餛飩,對了,還要加一大盤豬腳。沒想到前一陣子去了里港國小,咦,從此多了一則故事在心頭。

里港國小是偏鄉,讓人熱血沸騰的是,他們全校的孩子學小提琴。

「不可能吧?」我有滿心的疑惑,但接待我的陳老師卻不無得意的說,「真的呀,每個孩子都學,好像也沒多難。」

對,他口中的沒多難就是,要有一個音樂傻子,甘願放棄外頭的高薪誘惑,專心在這裡為每一個孩子付出,孩子們素質有高有低,老師得耐著性子,一個一個從站姿、夾琴學到指法耐心的教。

問他們怎麼不揀幾個有天賦的來教,包準去哪裡比賽都能得獎。

「我們學校的音樂老師不願意呀,他希望能讓每一個孩子都學到音樂,知道音樂不是有錢人才能學的。」

「那琴呢?琴很貴的。」

「就這邊的老師們捐一點,那邊捐一點,其實也沒有想像中貴啦。」在我認知裡那些很困難的藉口,全在陳老師的「也不會多難」的口頭禪裡給打破了。

每個孩子都有幾招

里港國小屬於偏鄉,旁有大河,終日砂石車呼嘯而過,處在這樣的地區,能發展什麼特色呢?

「就每個老師都有自己的兩把刷子,每一把刷子都拿出來使一使,就有很多很多社團了呀,也不會有多難啦……」

里港的小朋友除了必學小提琴之外,還有躲避飛盤社、舞龍舞獅社、游泳、羽球……,他們的孩子每一個都要學上幾項,雖沒十八般武藝樣樣精通,但是隨手來上幾招,個個都是有模有樣。

別的學校的校慶可能一天辦完,隔天補休了,里港不是,辦完了校慶,隔天再辦六年級的音樂會。會在隔天再辦是因為節目太多,排不下;會分年級來辦是因為,每個年級都要有自己的音樂會。

佩服這麼一間熱血小學,外表樸實不張揚,卻把無限的教育熱情,全化在孩子們的日常課程裡,每天這裡練一點點,那裡學一點點,日積月累下來,成就了這麼一則讓人聽了熱血沸騰的故事。

不讓才藝課程變成某些人的專屬,讓每一個孩子都站在相同的起跑點,讓他們勇敢毫不畏懼,如果我小時候有學小提琴,說不定……

 

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本文轉載自《可能小學巡堂筆記》,未經許可不得轉載

 

Apple is working on an electric car, Wall Street Journal reports

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ne morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.

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A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was.

 

Twitter’s Dick Costolo: We’re so much better than we were years ago

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