To All Outstanding Teachers of the National Taiwan Normal University

The Wisdom of Guidance

Peter Chen1952 to 1956

NTNU

19 Feb. 2009

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Wisdom

• 宇宙之奧妙• 智慧之神奇• 導航之藝術

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Wisdom

•智慧無所不在

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Wisdom

好奇，驚奇，神奇

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Wisdom

• 1 % instruction

• 99 % inspiration

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Wisdom

1 % information

99 % imagination

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Wisdom

•瞭解宇宙真象•神通內心世界

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Wisdom

• Our students are also our future teachers.

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Wisdom

• Wisdom involves sixth sense and super sense.

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Education

To live close to great minds

is the best kind of education.

John Buchan 1875-1940 Scottish historian

Governor General of Canada

Wisdom is philosophy

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Wisdom is problem solution.

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• Wisdom is the harmony, healthy and happiness in life.

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Albert Einstein1879-1955

Mathematical physicist

Nobel Prize 1921 (Physics)

In theory, theory and practice are

the same. In practice, they are not.

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Lao Tzu(570-490 B.C.)

“Know the universe as yourself

and you can live anywhere in comfort.”

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Lao Tzu

• Teaching without words.

• The softest thing overcomes

the hardest thing in the universe.

Confucius (551-479 BC)

• Everything has its beauty but not every one sees it.

• Choose a job you love, and you will not have to work for a day in your life.

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Socrates(469-399 B.C.)

• Know yourself

•Questioning

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Archimedes (287-212 BC)

Give me a standpoint and

I will move the earth.

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Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529)

Chinese Philosopher

knowledge and practice are one.

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da Vinci (1452-1519)

Italian artist, sculptor, painter, architect, engineer and scientist.

• Life well spent is long.

• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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Michelangelo 1475-1564

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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BeethovenGerman composer

1770-1827

• Music is a higher revelation

than all wisdom and philosophy.

Complete the mission of life

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Shakespeare1564-1616

English dramatist and poet

• Brevity is the Soul of wit.

• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)

US President (1861-1865)

• You can not help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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Norman Cousins 1913-1990

American author

• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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Herbert SpencerBritish philosopher

(1820-1903)

Progress, therefore, is not

an accident, …

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George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Irish dramatist, essayist and critic Nobel Prize for Literature 1925

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

The greatest leader of modern India

“Life is an inspiration.”

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Darwin(1809-1882)

English naturalist Evolution

It is not the strongest of the

species that survive, but the one

most responsive to change.

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Alfred Nobel1833-1896

Swedish inventor, chemist, philanthropist

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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Marie Curie1867-1934

Polish born French physicist

Twice Nobel Prize Winner (Physics and Chemistry)

Nothing in life is to be feared,

it is only to be understood.

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Thomas Edison1847-1931

American inventor1093 patients

• There is a better way to do it; find it.

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Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)

One of France’s greatest mathematicians

An interaction between two

opposites produces a unique outcome.

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Mother Teresa1910-1997

Roman Catholic Missionary

1979 Nobel Peace Prize

• The most important medicine is tender love and care.

• You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

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Wisdom

• Never too late.

• Never too early.

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• Wisdom is to teach our students how to teach themselves.

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• Wisdom is to bring the best out of our students.

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• Wisdom is to form a good

attitude and a healthy lifestyle.

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• Wisdom comes from adversity.

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Wisdom

• Never underestimate others.

• Never overestimate oneself.

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Wisdom

• Vision, mission and action,

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Wisdom

• Support others

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Wisdom

• First time is the last time.

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Wisdom

• Last chance is the best chance.

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Wisdom

• An interdisciplinary approach

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Wisdom

• Establish Good support system

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Wisdom

• Acting locally and thinking globally.

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Wisdom

• Reflect, review and renew constantly.

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Wisdom

• Talk and eat less,

• think and listen more.

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Wisdom

• Use resources around us effectively.

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Wisdom

• To be a citizen of the world.

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Wisdom

• Like what you dislike

of those things are important.

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Wisdom

• Ask questions

• Follow-up questions.

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Wisdom

• Make priority, take action and start now.

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Wisdom

• Peaceful solution is always the best solution.

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Wisdom

• Life is the beauty of art,

heart, and humanity.

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Plato’s advice to educators (429-347 BC)

• That their main business

was not put into the mind knowledge which was not there before, but to turn the mind's eye towards light so that it might see for itself.

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Albert von Szent-Györgyi1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine

(1893-1986) Lived to 93

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Wisdom of Guidance

• Talent identification

•Vision and Mission

Wisdom of Guidance

• Environment Condition

•Glider principle

Wisdom of Guidance

•Globalization

• Transformation

Wisdom of Guidance

•Cooperation

•Contribution

Wisdom

•Communication

•Consultation

•Cooperation

•Contribution

Wisdom

•Carefully

•Clearly

•Concisely

•Completely

Wisdom

• Thinking

• Time

• Technology

• Transformation

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John Milton1608--1674

English Poet

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."

 

Mission

• United NTNU can change the world.

• Together NTNU can make a difference.

• Congratulation, Admiration and Appreciation

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