tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post5026297694935938395..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: ValidationRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-42242239080961379072014-09-27T05:32:21.243-07:002014-09-27T05:32:21.243-07:00Thank you for the validation of not needing to buy...Thank you for the validation of not needing to buy your book. :) Good reasoning. I enjoyed your article.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17461942041276923442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-55479714724817418422014-09-21T17:32:30.780-07:002014-09-21T17:32:30.780-07:00"You can't be sure. "
Are you posit..."You can't be sure. "<br /><br />Are you positive?<br /><br />;)Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353783271100674218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-38184514691926958382014-09-20T01:15:38.271-07:002014-09-20T01:15:38.271-07:00Re: Validation--To paraphrase Groucho Marx, "...Re: Validation--To paraphrase Groucho Marx, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that'd want me as a member."Delta Juliet Papahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13785813104255324511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-17344505971625478432014-09-19T19:57:50.277-07:002014-09-19T19:57:50.277-07:00Certification is what you show somebody else, not ...Certification is what you show somebody else, not what you need for yourself. I have used you as my certification repeatedly, even while sitting next to you and talking to somebody else.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-73453100766715260282014-09-16T04:01:10.309-07:002014-09-16T04:01:10.309-07:00Re your last para - laughed. But IMO, certificates...Re your last para - laughed. But IMO, certificates aren't really for the student (or shouldn't be). They're mostly documentation for other people, primarily for the justice system should it come to that. paxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-66202881248513135052014-09-15T05:40:38.736-07:002014-09-15T05:40:38.736-07:00I'm now going to try this out. I will say in m...I'm now going to try this out. I will say in my freshman study skills course that any student who shows me they can think for themselves will get an A. <br /><br />The only way that students can get an A in this scheme is by directly challenging me on the logic that they have to show me they can think for themselves.<br /><br />I realize that this will only work for a maximum of 2 years before word gets out and I have every student challenging my authority at every turn (but that might not be bad in and of itself). Quintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-25369175112551428182014-09-14T01:18:50.965-07:002014-09-14T01:18:50.965-07:00oh- and the students union suggested we give the w...oh- and the students union suggested we give the women 'certificates' for completing a course lasting a few evenings.(so they had something to take away with them afterwards!)<br />uhh- No!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179254506394388543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-13968760692079187842014-09-14T01:14:31.530-07:002014-09-14T01:14:31.530-07:00Rory- your blog is very good for helping me clarif...Rory- your blog is very good for helping me clarify my thinking (a little)and forgive me if some of this just paraphrases what you have said already.<br />Validation- <br />1. The college in the summer asked for an instructor's certificate, an instructors insurance certificate and a first aid certificate before they would let the students book me for a day's course.They were satisfied as long as I had the correct piece of paper.<br />2.The manager at the students union wanted to know who I had trained with, and knew personally, or knew of, the people I mentioned.<br />3. The women in the classes usually want to know if I have survived a violent attack. No, because I have never been put in that situation. (closest things, a few dodgy experiences while travelling on my own, one of which, just outside Teheran 40 years ago, I think the 'attackers' were more nervous than we were!)<br /> Validity- I feel a lot of responsibility for anything I try to teach, but I haven't tried it in a 'real' situation. So I have to try to learn from others who have been in these situations themselves and have found things that do work, and then try to extract from these things that I think I could make work myself or that someone could make work after a few evening classes with no prior training or experience. Classes often end up as discussion with the women adding their own experiences and how they have dealt with them (or sometimes not) ,plus some principles (but rarely techniques) ukemi - or rather falling over without hurting themselves, from the dojo.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179254506394388543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-53845820329041841042014-09-13T04:23:48.785-07:002014-09-13T04:23:48.785-07:00With the Dunning-Kruger effect, didn't the maj...With the Dunning-Kruger effect, didn't the majority rate themselves at about 70%?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842123561228608863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-51084913715150026102014-09-12T05:26:30.222-07:002014-09-12T05:26:30.222-07:00Getting people to think for themselves: Add to you...Getting people to think for themselves: Add to your end of seminar ritual. Continue to ask for one thing participants took away from the seminar but also have them tell you one thing they think you're wrong about. Or something you answered incompletely or taught with too much authority and not enough knowledge. <br />Gets them to think critically and gives you new questions to think about and equations to solve.Tia https://www.blogger.com/profile/01446049204935688751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-33352651125894830522014-09-10T08:50:52.896-07:002014-09-10T08:50:52.896-07:00That catch of yours at the end is almost precisely...That catch of yours at the end is almost precisely the same as the original Catch-22 in Joe Heller's book of the same name. "You can be discharged from the army only by reasons of insanity. Wanting to be discharged from the army is irrefutable proof of your sanity."Kamilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12216057008638038108noreply@blogger.com