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— We need motivation to learn, not an emergency, same with teaching.
The title is a Chinese story that is over 2000 years old. It doesn’t need one more single word to pull out its implications. More amazingly, it still permeates every level of our modern life.
For the first time, my son Jack fixed his laptop by himself. It’s his second laptop over the past three years. Like every other teenager, he is a computer hitter, carrying it to school, playing games, hitting the keyboard, burying it with the litter on the table. I am the computer fix man, touch screen, missing keys, and dead battery. I know one day he is going to have to fix the mess himself, just don’t feel it’s time yet. He is 16. They’ve got full size and strength, but none of the muscles is correctly placed. Filling up a hole would more likely end up with a bigger hole.
I am not a geek. I just youtube it and try not to break things. But this time the loud fan really gets me. After a couple of days of research, I told him, half threatening, half throwing the towel, “It’s beyond me. You have to fix it yourself this time.”
I knew he couldn’t wait. The computer quickly overheated that he couldn’t play video games with his friends. But I didn’t know he would respond right away, “I will do it. ”He moved really fast, going to…
