NO CHILD IS AN ISLAND: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN

In this essay Olivia Newman critically examines two opposing rights claims: the liberal claim that children have a right to become liberal choosers and the fundamentalist claim that children have a right to not become liberal choosers. These positions reflect differing views regarding the value of critically choosing, rather than simply accepting, a way of life. Given their assumptions regarding preference formation, both of these rights appear untenable in light of recent scholarship in psychology: we can neither select a way of life independent of our social milieu, as liberals often imply, nor can we predict how different experiences will affect our preferences, as fundamentalists assume. Nevertheless, each position points to important concerns. Children have a substantive right of exit from constraining social milieus, as liberals purport, as well as a right to respect in public institutions, as fundamentalists insist. When liberals and fundamentalists assert these more modest rights claims, educators can and should strive to satisfy both.     

木芙蓉旧事

正有段时间,我常到成都出差,在宾馆的花园里居然看到了木芙蓉,早上经过的时候还是淡粉色的,午饭再看已经是深红。在我家乡也有,是三醉芙蓉,又名千面女郎。因为它清晨初开时为白色或粉红色,后逐渐变为深红,傍晚时变为紫红色,越开越艳。所谓"晓妆如玉暮如霞",就是指这个特色。看到深红的芙蓉,我忽然就想到了小时候家里给我订亲的女孩。娃娃亲这样的风俗现在是绝迹了,即使是我小时侯所在的乡村其实也已经不多见,但是     

性格描绘词

在这个世界上,每个人都是独一无二的,都有自己独特的性格：有的风趣幽默,有的不善言谈,有的亲切热情,有的孤傲冷漠……下面我们就来学几个性格描绘词。     

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

There is a crisis in our models of knowing. Help comes from many sources, including the utilization of the Reticular Activating System

     

CHILD OF LIGHT

从RPG作为产业诞生至今,已经伴随玩家走过了近30年的光阴,我们见证了日式RPG不朽的一面,也见证了日式RPG迷茫的一面。或许有人吐槽这类游戏总是那么一成一变,或许也有人说美式RPG具有更好的角色扮演体验,然而育碧蒙特 利尔旗下的一个小型工作室却正在用最纯粹的日式RPG风格勾勒出西方童话艺术的优雅。     

CHARACTER IN TEACHING

ABSTRACT:  Qualities of personal character would appear to play a significant role in the professional conduct of teachers. It is often said that we remember teachers as much for the kinds of people they were than for anything they may have taught us, and some kinds of professional expertise may best be understood as qualities of character. After (roughly) distinguishing qualities of character from those of personality, the present paper draws on the resources of virtue ethics to try to make sense of the former. In the course of this, it is argued that while the key virtue ethical concept of phronesis or practical wisdom has been widely deployed to account for aspects of professional teacher expertise, it has also been subject to rather un-Aristotelian interpretation as a kind of situation-specific productive reasoning. The present paper seeks to show that it is better employed for understanding character in general and character in teaching in particular. The paper concludes with some observations about the professional education or cultivation of character.     

气势与气韵

中国书法艺术常提到"气",气乃书法之真谛所在。在书法创作与形象中常以"气势"、"气韵"等词进行表述,"气势"是书法家对自然抽象摹写与内心世界传达结合的一种书法表现的特殊形式。气韵是书法家、书法作品与欣赏者之间互相感知的产物。气韵生动乃书法所求的最佳效果。书法作品的气韵,是书法家品德情操、生活阅历、文化修养以及艺术功力等内外因素的综合产物。