tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post5187002717690543180..comments2024-03-27T15:55:32.875+01:00Comments on W-wa Jeziorki: SearchingMichael Dembinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-66803619879306881022017-09-08T15:27:30.366+02:002017-09-08T15:27:30.366+02:00The one thing Latymer School was good at was foste...The one thing Latymer School was good at was fostering an inquisative mind and not taking answers at face value. Interestingly several of the teachers did not have any sort of degree - just a passion for their chosen subject. <br />It is frightening to think of the vast number of young people both in Britain and Poland going sheep like into higher education at a third rate pseudo university and then finding that they are not suited at all to life and going on to non jobs (if at all). SAD. And I can't imagine that the current "reform" of Polish education is going to do any good at all unless of course the intention is to produce vote fodder!AndrzejKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-76568539281368898192017-09-06T18:37:34.415+02:002017-09-06T18:37:34.415+02:00@ Jacek Koba
My take on time flying faster is tha...@ Jacek Koba<br /><br />My take on time flying faster is that at the age of 50, a year represents but one-fiftieth of your remembered experience, while at age ten, it represents a tenth. And of course, at age ten, those experiences are all the more memorable for being fresh and in many cases unique.<br /><br />@ Bozena Masters<br /><br />Are the perceptive happier than those who aren't? I strongly believe they are. They can perceive those small details that bring joy, they are less materialistic and - to quote Jacek Koba - their expectations-to-reality ratio is nearer one to one as a result.Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-74357498782906506172017-09-06T18:11:03.598+02:002017-09-06T18:11:03.598+02:00While I believe we should never close our minds, I...While I believe we should never close our minds, I also think that we choose not so much "to notice less as we go along", but to be less overwhelmed by changes - global, parochial, familial. Some "comforting" words from my mother recently: I expressed my concern that one way or another, whether via Donald Trump or populist regimes in Europe, we seem to be heading for serious conflict. Her response was "I survived it. You will, too. Or not." In the end, it's all ashes to ashes and dust to dust. If an absence of perceptiveness brings you pleasure, you can just be. Are people who are perceptive any happier than those who aren't? I suspect not. <br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10986317876015683624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-53502886781623938602017-09-05T22:48:23.386+02:002017-09-05T22:48:23.386+02:00An interesting BBC programme explored the question...An interesting BBC programme explored the question of the perception of time a while ago, explaining, among other things, why time flies faster as we grow older. The answer is obvious but needs articulating lest it be lost in the hurly burly of everyday life: we simply choose to notice less as we go along. Why? Because many things are already familiar. New observations form a series of milestones in our memory which we think of as a journey. The more milestones, the longer the journey, the slower the time passes. A child will be packing a lot into his memory because things are new, thus a year to a child is practically forever. (We fondly say of getting older that our days are longer and our years are shorter.) Another way of looking at it is this: imagine a journey from A to B along a new route, then back from B to A along the same route. It seems that the onward journey takes longer while the return journey takes less time. Why? Because on the way back you are already familiar with the things you've seen on the way over. The only escape from this bind is learn, learn , learn. Never give up. Heed Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever. I tell my students that the more they notice around them the more they will be able to say (in English), and the more they are able to say the more they will notice.Jacek Kobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602096438710949362noreply@blogger.com