Education
July 25, 2026•231 words
Teaching is probably the thing that interests me the most in life. It may be naive thinking, but I believe that anyone can learn anything.
Teaching is not just reading a book, sitting at a desk and copying from the blackboard. Learning is always an active and complex process for a student that is not always easy to establish.
Let's take mathematics as an example, which gave the soul to the theory of teaching. The numbers 1,2,3... are so intuitive to us that we no longer think about what they mean - we just use them. But they are still just symbols that mean something. What exactly do numbers mean? If a child has difficulty understanding numbers, let them play with crayons or candies TO CONNECT THE QUANTITY WITH THE SYMBOL. Now it sounds simple, doesn't it?
This is exactly the principle that quality education should be based on: getting to the heart of the problem and seeing where we started in the first place. It is easy for adults who have already seen the same task 250 times and know how to solve it by heart. We cannot expect this from children who are encountering not only a problem, but also a concept for the first time. We need to go slowly and build a simple intuition in children. One concept, no matter how simple, will lead to another concept.