Here is a very interesting story about learning...
A young Chinese lad goes to a Chinese school for the first time in his life. He was taught to write 'one' in Chinese lettering, that is with only one stroke. 一，and the next day, 二，third day 三!
The fourth day, this young Chinese lad told his mother that he aren't going again. He told his mother that he is smart enough. What the teacher is going to teach, he already knew. His mother had no way to persuade him to go, thus he stayed at home.
After half a month, his mother again persuaded him to go to school. Having nothing to do at home, he obliged and went.
That day, the teacher was giving them a test. That test was to write from one to fifteen, all of them were excited and said they could do it! The little boy was thinking that that it was that easy too!
The little boy was still taking his time to write the numbers. All the rest had finished and given back to the teacher. At last he finished. He was smiling and handed over to the teacher and what a shock the teacher got!
His testpaper was full of strokes, the fourth day, 4 strokes, the fifth day, 5 strokes and the fifteenth day, fifteen strokes! What a silly mistake he did!
He learnt a great lesson that day, all the other boys were laughing at him.
From this story, we all learn to be patient in learning. There is always this gradual progress and improvement. We sometimes laugh at people's mistakes without seeing and sensing our own.
Education is a gradual process, we need to climb those steps, giving oneself time to progress and acquiring the skills we need, acquiring the knowledge we need and putting them into practise. The best is when one can duplicate or teach brillant students or someone better than us!
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