Friday, January the 11th, 2008

A cloudy and cold morning. The sky is covered with thick grey clouds. It may rain some time today. The first ten days of the month, the year, has passed. It hints the new year would be a rough one. I wonder whether it is due to the rough situation, or because I have become sensitive delicate to the roughness.
An educational worker today needs core competency and peripheral techniques to survive in ever changing societies. The core competency is what should be developed for the longer time being, something like a life work, and be accompanied with a certain research ability, which they could have acquired in their college days. The ability enables them to digest raw spin-offs from universities, even though they lack the ability to study things from the foundation, or are out of the time to do so.
The peripheral techniques, on the other hand, are rather short-range replaceable ones, which should be obtained through learning.