updated 2015-07-21 12:10 utc by goh kawai
I am an educational engineer. I design, build, deploy, and evaluate online learning systems. To learn about my academic, vocational, and language backgrounds, kindly visit http://goh.kawai.com/ or, if you are on Hokudai campus, a faster mirror at http://goh.cll.hokudai.ac.jp/. Hokudai’s grad school has a brief bio.
The best way to teach better is to become a good student. Several years ago I learned Dutch language ab initio. I started running, although I hate physical exercise. No, I have not attained high performance, but I did learn (or re-learn) how students feel at first, and the techniques and discipline on how to maintain skills.
Last year, my wife Noriko prompted me to start taking trumpet lessons. She encouraged me to explore a world totally unknown to me, to open a door leading to wonders that I envied yet until now have been denied to me.
My objectives are: (1) to overcome a deep-seated inferiority complex of my woeful lack of musical knowledge and skill, (2) to become a member of the general music-lover community, (3) to strengthen my perseverance, will power, and time-management skills, (4) to learn how to acquire automaticity via repeating physical actions, and (5) to play music to my family and close friends. I am not interested in performing in front of strangers.
We need to keep growing, to repeatedly hatch from our eggs. Those shells are of our own making. To halt is to recede.