Replying to LO29941 --
Dear Andrew and other friends,
Thanks for the message of the Spring. It is a spring here in Taipei and
early summer in Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam.
One of my admired sociologist Robert Merton passed away and I tried to
explain the significance of his contributions to an editor of a local
press specialized in economics .It is quite difficult. So forget it.
What are the lessons we learned from his fruitful innovative thinking?
Let me recount a learning case as an 'echo' of your " wave-functional"
notes.
I read " Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick and came across the
following,
".A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;."
I checked The Concise Oxford Dictionary for the meaning of the "lawn" and
understood " Middle English probably from Laon, a city in France important
for linen manufacture." Then I searched for Laon, to realize that perhaps
no more linen manufactures but the famous Cathedral (as yours near Oxford)
left, then, I read Rodin's notes and sketches about it. nearly a thousand
years passed and the Cathedral is still standing over there for witness
any new 'rebellions'.
I start to read a Chinese translation of SAINT LOUIS by Jacques Le Goff.
In the streets of Taipei and Ho Chi Ming City, where are the pipe-smoking
tutors lin Yutang preferred? (Dr Lin was a pioneer in the invention of a
version of Chinese typewriter and lost huge money he earned from writing
in investing in prototyping them. I admired the real entrepreneurship of
Dr. Lin.)
Here some of us try to learn some Lessons From Failure ( a Japanese Book)
and Learning Through Failure: The Strategy of Small Losses by Sim B Sitkin
(Research in Organization Behavior, Vol. 14) or Dr Deming's
plan-do-study-act cycle.
As a consultant for NOS ( Nike people prefer the Latin on the one-dollar
note), I invited one of manager in China to share his English learning
with me daily. We found out the Chinese word "wind" is a key word in the
culture. Perhaps we don't have John Keats and his famous note on
Philosophy, but we did have some wise guys to play some prototypes of
"hot-air ballons" ( never used them as a man-carrying vehicle for "up up
and away".
Dear Andrew, thanks for your notes and invitations forsome new dimensions
of learning (say, let's call it "the redress of LO").
Regards,
Hanching Chung
>Soon it will be an appropriate time to talk about 'the receiving of
>shirts'. But, right now I have a more pressing need ;-)
>Of Clay and Water-Marriage-Execution Theory
--"deming" <demingtw@ms17.hinet.net>
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