皆さま、お元気でしょうか。
2014年にこのブログを終了してから6年に近い歳月が経過しました。
その間にも合計で30000pvがあったことになります。見ていただいた方々には心から感謝申し上げます。
今日は大変な残念なお知らせをしなければなりません。
このブログを読んでいただいている方々が、何かの形で関わりをお持ちになった「（早稲田ゼミ）医進塾」は、今年度をもって閉校いたします。
それは既に理事会によって決定され、私の後に塾を受け継いだ塾長、講師の方々には書面をもって伝達がされているそうです（私は直接的な関わりを現在もっておりませんので間接的な連絡を受けたのみです）。
2006年に「早稲田ゼミ医進コース」から「医進塾」として独立部門化されたこの塾を、私が前任者から引き継いで8年、その次の世代にバトンタッチしてから6年弱の歳月が流れました。その間、多くの塾生が高田馬場の校舎で学び、医師、獣医師としての将来を目指して真摯に学び、巣立って行きました。新進気鋭の医師、獣医師として活躍している先輩たちも決して少なくありません。
閉校は誠に残念なことではありますが、それを悲しむよりも寧ろその間に本当に熱心な塾生、講師の先生方と出会えたことに感謝したいと思います。
これから機会があればこのブログ上に、医進塾の過去の思い出となるかなりの数の画像を順に載せ「かつて高田馬場の一角に『医進塾』という学びの場が間違いなく存在した」ということを記憶に留める一助としたく考えております。
改めてこのブログを読んでくださっている皆様との出会いに感謝しつつ…。
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Friday, August 29, 2014
A company has announced it wishes to build a new factory near near the community we are in. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on the community.Do you support or oppose the factory?
It totally depends on what kind of factory it may be. If the factory is the kind that emits strong smell in the neighborhood or/and produces dangerous industrial waste, we have to say "No!" to the construction, because it might have unfavorable influence on the community, especially on the children living there.
If the factory, on the contrary, is sometinig like the one which is safe and quiet, run very modestly, there being no problems with the security of the facilities, nobody would oppose, because in general a factory usually provide the community with a bog tax revenue.
One more advantage would be that a new factory usually create new emplyment in the community, which is likely to stabilize the economic status-quo there. In the general perspective, security-guaranteed stabilized calm area would make a community of very low crime rate.
The advantages I have written about would become "disadvantages" from a directly oddpsite position. The presuposition of the security of the factory to be build supports my idea. So we have to make clear which kind of a factory we are going to have.
If the factory, on the contrary, is sometinig like the one which is safe and quiet, run very modestly, there being no problems with the security of the facilities, nobody would oppose, because in general a factory usually provide the community with a bog tax revenue.
One more advantage would be that a new factory usually create new emplyment in the community, which is likely to stabilize the economic status-quo there. In the general perspective, security-guaranteed stabilized calm area would make a community of very low crime rate.
The advantages I have written about would become "disadvantages" from a directly oddpsite position. The presuposition of the security of the factory to be build supports my idea. So we have to make clear which kind of a factory we are going to have.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Which source is more important, knowledge from books, or knowldge gained from experiences, and why?
This is one of the hosehold topics and I am pretty sure we don't have to waist our precious time arguing this kind of prepositions. We live, act, and take measures against the unwanted situation in order to survive. Even though we live in a favorable circumstances, we act in our own way.
After the action, words come. We human beings are prone to record every thing around us. Through this process of abstraction (wording), we boid down the real meaning, significance and the message we would like to read in the experience to the form of "a book".
So the actual experience and the knowledge we gain through and the counterpart we get in the books are two side of the same coin. Both are important, significant indespensable, and essential. We should deal with them on "both-are-important" basis.
That is the reason I say this kind of discussion would be waste of the time.
After the action, words come. We human beings are prone to record every thing around us. Through this process of abstraction (wording), we boid down the real meaning, significance and the message we would like to read in the experience to the form of "a book".
So the actual experience and the knowledge we gain through and the counterpart we get in the books are two side of the same coin. Both are important, significant indespensable, and essential. We should deal with them on "both-are-important" basis.
That is the reason I say this kind of discussion would be waste of the time.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Today, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live.
People used to spend a big share of time
they have a day on cooking. The work of cooking almost all the time goes to
women. It took them almost whole day to prepare meals for their family members.
It must have been very much a harder job than we can expect today. So the
present day condition in which we can have a lot of easy-to-prepare food must
have made women’s life much easier. But the fact is “never”.
It is true women, as well as men, can have
a lot of spare time thanks to those kinds of food. They have helped us and
provided us with so much free time. They we have to take time to consider
whether we can use it in a fruitful, challenging, look-forward way.
I am very sorry to say the answer I come up
with is “Negative”. The reason is quite simple. It is still in the darkness how
we can utilize the time we could get in a creative way. Reading books is one of
good recommendable ways, but the fact is many libraries in a rural cities have
had a very hard time to appeal to the city people to visit the as often as
possible. This means that for citizens it is still a troublesome job to find the
right way(s) to “kill time”.
Now is the time we have to go back and take
time enough to re-consider the real meaning of “cooking meals”. It is not just
to prepare something to eat on which we depend for a healthy life, but it also
gives us a good chance how to live in a creative way. In a sense cooking seems
to provide us an important and too-good-to-miss chance to reconsider our lives
as a human being, since a human is only one species that can have an art of
cooking.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Parents are the best teachers.
To start with, being a teachre presupposes "education". We have to classify the "education" here into two categories: school and home. Each place has its own objective. School has , as its original aim, the perfectly curriculumized formal education. Home, on the other hand, does not have any systematized scheme and it should not.
School are required to give the students formal and group education including group discipline teaching how we should act inside a group. Social welfare is also targeted in school education, too.
At home, though, a child or children are dealt with by their parents as an "individual". The term "deal with" might be a wrong expression. They must be "associated with" by the parents as independent existence.
Real education begins with individual affectionate training to each child starting with "toilet training" by the mother. Starting with those basic survival training as a human being, a child will go through many phases of preparation for an matured adult within around 15 years after the baby's birth.
Parents must be the right persons to discipline and train and teach and develop their children. This is the reason why "Parents are the best teachers".
Teachers at school cannot, no matter hard they may try, be such an multiple "actors" towards the students.
To conclude, it should be pointed out that teachers at school "teach", and parents at home "develop".
This might be the biggest difference.
School are required to give the students formal and group education including group discipline teaching how we should act inside a group. Social welfare is also targeted in school education, too.
At home, though, a child or children are dealt with by their parents as an "individual". The term "deal with" might be a wrong expression. They must be "associated with" by the parents as independent existence.
Real education begins with individual affectionate training to each child starting with "toilet training" by the mother. Starting with those basic survival training as a human being, a child will go through many phases of preparation for an matured adult within around 15 years after the baby's birth.
Parents must be the right persons to discipline and train and teach and develop their children. This is the reason why "Parents are the best teachers".
Teachers at school cannot, no matter hard they may try, be such an multiple "actors" towards the students.
To conclude, it should be pointed out that teachers at school "teach", and parents at home "develop".
This might be the biggest difference.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Why do we have to go to college?
In those days of some generations back in the history, going to go to college was not a so-called "common sense" for almost all the people in the world.
Then why do people these days seem to take it for granted, and are ready to pay the tuition fee for their children?
There are two main reasons there, it seemes.
The first one is the fact that we are living in the world in which all of us are required to have "up-to-date" and the newest information about the surrounding. So-called "life-long education" is the very key term to survive the world.
The second reason is another fact that we are living the age of " the specialist", which provides us with many opportunities to develop our sperical "skill" and expects to contribute to the society with that special skills and techniques
These two reasons are the main conditions for us to go to college or send our children there, even though it costs much.
The title of this essay is "why we have to go to college". We have to admit, too, that the longer our life expectancy becoms, the more we have to learn to live an enriched life.
We have to admit, though, one more important fact about the happiness of life. We can contribute to the socieaty we are living in with our personal skills and special techniques. But at the same time we have to say Yes to the idea that skills ane techniques are not the only one factors to make us happier.
What makes us happy, what provides us with love and charity, is not athe amout of information we recieve at college. On the contrary this kind of knowlege sometimes makes us miserable and unhappy.
We are living in such an age as we are supposed to have as much lates information as possible. Living happily and making people around us happier reqired us to have another kind of information about people, not about books.
This kind of information could only be obtained through the healthy, warm and fruitful human relationships.
We must bear in mind college education is not the only way to provide us this. If we know the truth about this basic principles to make us happy, then, college education would give us strong aid to support us through lifetime.
Then why do people these days seem to take it for granted, and are ready to pay the tuition fee for their children?
There are two main reasons there, it seemes.
The first one is the fact that we are living in the world in which all of us are required to have "up-to-date" and the newest information about the surrounding. So-called "life-long education" is the very key term to survive the world.
The second reason is another fact that we are living the age of " the specialist", which provides us with many opportunities to develop our sperical "skill" and expects to contribute to the society with that special skills and techniques
These two reasons are the main conditions for us to go to college or send our children there, even though it costs much.
The title of this essay is "why we have to go to college". We have to admit, too, that the longer our life expectancy becoms, the more we have to learn to live an enriched life.
We have to admit, though, one more important fact about the happiness of life. We can contribute to the socieaty we are living in with our personal skills and special techniques. But at the same time we have to say Yes to the idea that skills ane techniques are not the only one factors to make us happier.
What makes us happy, what provides us with love and charity, is not athe amout of information we recieve at college. On the contrary this kind of knowlege sometimes makes us miserable and unhappy.
We are living in such an age as we are supposed to have as much lates information as possible. Living happily and making people around us happier reqired us to have another kind of information about people, not about books.
This kind of information could only be obtained through the healthy, warm and fruitful human relationships.
We must bear in mind college education is not the only way to provide us this. If we know the truth about this basic principles to make us happy, then, college education would give us strong aid to support us through lifetime.
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