“Where is it written that the old way is the right way? Where is it written that a traditional education is the only way to get an education, that classes only take place in a classroom?... That is the question – it is not written anywhere.”
I come across this idea when I was reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Back then I just recovered from the Lin’an trip, back to the reality and began wondering about my future. I signed the Xiaonei, and began reaching people I didn’t even thought about meeting or hearing form ever again. And I saw Sy.
I suddenly felt that through the platform of the Internet, no one was unreachable unless he purposefully lives a life of a hermit as I do now. And by some dim wish and vague logic I told myself that because of the Internet, the world is flat now; less and less knowledge will be exclusive to the small amount of intelligent people within the realm of higher educational institutions; in this case I will have the same access to some resources of learning as the out-standing ones in say, P University, and if I tried really hard and acquire more expertise about the Internet use, I would even have more access to better resources. If that proves to be true, only a little amount of learning resources would be kept exclusive to those in the best of the universities and what I need to do is to reduce that amount to the least possible within my power.
But even though I can acquire exactly the same quantity and quality of resources and they do – that is hardly possible now considering the computer ability and study efficiency of mine and the current condition of Chinese higher education – the one thing I cannot grant myself is a highly competitive and inspiring crowd.
The reality is, in JU, I have no rival, no friend, no one I admire as my teacher, no one I respect whatsoever, not even potentials. Among them, what I need most is a teacher, and by that word I mean someone I admire and even love in the first place, who sets a living standard for me to reach, who will simply make me think every morning I wake up that “because of him existing in my life, I simply want to be better person”. I would not allow myself to waste a second on aimless pastimes before I think I have tried the hardest I can to reach or already reached the level of him so that I will talk to him without misunderstanding, or, understand each other without talking.
"It is my love for you that kept me from moving - my love and my hope to reach you and my wish to be worthy of you on the day when I would stand before you face to face. Even though I won't - I will fight for it, even if I had to fight against you."
But, where are you and who are you?
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