Chapter 10 Chapter 9 My Learning Method

Chapter 9 My Learning Method 1 I continued writing on the topic of the previous article.Let me start with the names of people and books that appeared in the article I translated just now. Of course, these are just to clarify my learning methods when I was young.Now everyone just needs to remember that there was a scholar named Plato—he was active from the end of the 5th century BC to the middle of the 4th century BC, established the Plato Academy in Athens, and was a student of Socrates.If you can remember this name when you enter university in the future, I hope you can read his "Dialogues of Plato".

This is my way of learning.I invented this one-man method when I was ten years old, because after my father passed away, I had no one to ask questions directly.Even now, I actually use this learning method. This is well documented.Today, thinking about giving a lecture to everyone, I started to prepare.Before you get ready to start, something pops into your head right away, even if you haven't looked at anything yet.But I'm still going to check my own card box - which is now the size of an upright piano - and I'm going to check the "education" item.This approach is completely consistent with the principle of writing down some things in a notebook without any classification when I was a child.

In the card, you can find the title of the book that Noslov-Frye read recently and found interesting and the page number of his views on education. Next, go to the library to find this book by Frye.The red line that I drew as a reminder in the book and some ideas formed during the reading that I wrote down became useful at this time. The next thing I have to do is to find out in the Collected Works of Plato the volume included in the Meno, and make sure that what Frye is citing is accurate. However, since I am going to give a lecture in front of everyone this time, I have something to pay special attention to.The "Plato Dialogues" just mentioned is written in the form of dialogues with his teacher Socrates and others.Like Frye said, this is a dialogue that preserves as-is the teacher asking more questions than the student.The teacher does this to guide out the things that are very clear in the hearts of the students even though they have not found the language of expression for a while.

This "Meno" is a dialogue between a young man named Meno, who is an outsider to the city-state Athens, and Socrates.At present, many people have conducted various discussions on how to carry out moral education, such as why people should not kill people, such as selfishness as an individual, government guidelines, and national policies, which of the two is more important, and so on. It can be said that everyone here is the hardest, because you must receive education in this area.But the "morality" discussed in this book is actually a somewhat different "morality" from the "morality" in the general sense.

I hope that everyone will remember the book "Mino Hen", which is collected in Iwanami Bunko, and I also hope that everyone can read it after entering university.When I was a child, when I encountered a book that I didn’t fully understand after I read it, and when I expected to read it again, I would write down the author and the title of the book in the notebook, and write down why I wanted to read it in the future and what I was interested in. Where, etc., write down as much as I can understand at that age.Of course, here are more excerpts. For example, in a book I read very interesting, there is such a passage... This is one of the learning methods I have been using until now.

After a few years, I actually read that book and felt that it was indeed a good book just like the original one. I was extremely happy when I got this confirmation.Isn't there a "hit" moment in baseball?There is also a time when the book and you who are reading this "face to face".The ability to read (which also has a lot to do with age in my formative years), the pre-reading I did for this book, and my life experience so far will all help me "get it right." The same goes for you, don't rush to start reading right away in order to "make a deal" between you and a certain book.Often when you see a book you don't know, as long as you think it might be a good book, you might as well read it in a bookstore or library first.If you have spare money, it is of course best to buy it.After that, I never forgot it, until one day walking towards that book was like walking towards the batting box of a baseball.

2 Now, to remind you of the book of the Meno, let me tell you about a particularly pleasant part of it.It will be very accessible to those of you who have already studied elementary geometry.At that time, I was still studying in a new system middle school, and I got various textbooks used by the teachers from the young people who had studied in the old system high school in what is now Korea.They returned to China immediately after the defeat, and it was impossible for them to go back to study dot-matrix fonts, because it was no longer a school for the Japanese.Among these textbooks, because the introductory book on geometry can be taught by myself, I started to learn it enthusiastically.

Socrates said that man is born knowing.This is also an important idea in Plato, and I won't discuss it in depth here.To prove this point, in the dialogue just mentioned, Socrates called the young man who waited on Meno, and had a dialogue with him about geometric figures, and the dialogue was about the method of learning philosophy.Socrates first drew the square ABCD on the ground.But from this scene, it can be seen that this is a conversation while walking outdoors.Then, he draws two lines EG and HF respectively from the midpoint of the edge.Using the measurement method of ancient Greece, let the length of AB be two bos.In the old French unit of length, one-twelfth of the pier, the unit of length representing a step, is the pouse.We might as well think that this Booth is roughly the same as the Puth with a length of nearly one centimeter.He first asked the boy to answer that the total area was four square bushels, and then asked the boy how big the double figure was.The boy's answer was, of course, eight square bushes.Socrates then asked, what is the length of one side of that figure?The boy replied:

Needless to say?Socrates, twice as long. This answer is wrong.So Socrates drew another picture to ask the boy to make him realize his mistake.The area of ​​this AKLM square is four times the area of ​​the original figure, and the figure of Sanbus is completely drawn on the other side.So Socrates said to the boy, what is the side length of the square twice the area of ​​the figure just now? The boy replied, no, I swear to Zeus, Socrates, I don't understand. Next, Socrates simplified the graph AKLM, DB, which scholars call the diagonal of the square ABCD.He made the boy realize that if DB is used as a side, it can be made into a square that is half of the previous figure.At this point, the teenager looked at the picture with his own eyes, which was already understandable.Because it is one-half of four times, it is twice the original figure, which is the number sought.

Using this check as material, what is being argued in the Meno is a central concern of Plato's—that one's knowledge is only "remembered," in the translated words.Plato thought.The human soul is immortal.So often a man's knowledge is what he has before he is a man.Education is just "making knowledge grow from within", and this growth process is a "process of being reminded and recalled".The understanding of this awaits your future reading in its entirety. The most important thing at this time is that although it is said to be classical philosophy, most of them will not forget the relaxed and pleasant explanations they heard when they were children. -related.I still strongly feel that the notes and learning methods that I took alone in the forest of Shikoku are still effective today.

3 I'm not trying to talk about how successful my education was or that I'm content with who I am now.In my self-education centered on reading in my own way, there are actually many shortcomings and loopholes.In order to overcome these problems, especially in my sixties, I can say that I am trying almost every day.For this reason, I once stopped writing novels and wanted to start reading again. In the future, I don’t know how many years I can live. Maybe these problems can’t be solved in my lifetime. I just want to tell everyone from my personal experience that the self-learning that started when I was a child can last a lifetime and is endless.What I want to say is that the way of living that starts with the thought of "OK, I want to live like this" as a child can last a lifetime.I must add one thing here, that is, all of this can be modified. If I think another direction is better, I think all of this can be modified. The meaning of "continuous" here is very important.This question is addressed in the book that I leave as an assignment for you to read.If, as my mother said, what is learned in school is a re-learning for children who died before they could grow up--from language to everything, from myself If it goes on, then it is okay to use "continuous" to express this meaning.Inheriting according to one's own wishes is continuation; it is also a kind of continuation to regard oneself as a person who connects those children who die before they grow up. I want to go down my own path in childhood, and this is how I study and work all the way.That's what I said, but when I was a child, what I thought was that if I grow up, I will probably become a completely different person from myself.Because in my opinion when I was a child, adults are like adults, different from children. I am a grown man now, and have reached the age at which the dividend is called an old man.The Socrates we just talked about in Plato's "Meno" had a dialogue, and it seems that he only lived for three years after that.That is, when Socrates was sixty-seven years old, not roughly my current age.At this age, I clearly understand one thing - after all, the adult is the continuation of the child, the two are connected.If I can say something to myself half a century ago, I think this is the secret I want to tell him the most. Furthermore, if you think that the way you have lived so far is wrong, then you should change your way of life instead of dying.This is also as important as I just said.Maybe it is somewhat difficult to do so, but I think it is also a kind of "continuation" to discover a new self. For most Lou people, I think the most fundamental thing is that the "person" in their inner world is connected and continuous since childhood, and this "person" in their hearts is related to the Japanese, and then to the Japanese. The entire history of humanity is connected.This is what my mother taught me. By the way, from the perspective of the future, when you grow up as adults, your ego is connected with the "person" in your heart now, and furthermore, it is connected with the future Japanese and human beings.Therefore, we must cherish the "people" in our inner world.This is what I most want to tell you.