《非名校女生的反思——非名校教曉了我什麼》

laorenjia

Athenackw 發表於 15-2-6 18:40
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse

Dear Athena
It is not the meaning of the word I'm interested in. It's how you came to know the word I'm curios about. I was a CMI student myself and studied biology in Chinese, I did not learn the word until much later.

I've absolutely no problem with the expression 狗屁不通 and certainly will not mind if my daughter uses it. Still the expression is biased on the side of being 粗俗, idiom or not. And, look at all the posts here, only 1 adult so far finds the expression inappropriate. Relax, young girl.

laorenjia

Athenackw 發表於 15-2-6 18:40
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse

The word is not a word you'll come across on a daily basis if you do not study biology in English and have no habit of reading widely in English. This is why I find it interesting to know how a non-elite-school student, presumably a CMI student, came to know the word, especially that the word is seldom used outside a technical context as in this case. I'm just curious. That's all.

joyjoyparent

Dear Athena,
As you posted your article in this 'Junior Secondary Forum', I presume that you are also in junior secondary school. I believe that your confident parents are no ordinary parents. They have their own philosophy of education, and know the gist to nurture book-loving, inquisitive, and self-motivated students. Such habits and traits are the key to excel in learning! Keep on your good work, you will succeed in entering the top 3 u of HK.

Yet, IF you want to get into the very top course (Medic), there will be another game plan. Read EK posts and humbly ask those experienced EK parents would help!

laorenjia

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BTW, how did your kid come to know this word, from reading a science book on nervous system?

friendlyguy

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Hi laorenjia,

Let my son answer you directly. He is an international school S1 student.

Friendlyguy

Dear laorenjia,

I have always enjoyed reading and self-learning, and through reading I have studied many topics, including the human body. I recall being in P1 or 2, or even earlier, reading several books about the human body that mentioned synapses and gave the definition of the word. Those were not anything too advanced, just children’s books. At a young age, I may have learned the word from a book, I may have learned it from Wikipedia, I don’t remember. I tend to remember the facts, not where I learn them.

Yours sincerely,

Friendlyguy’s son

YDLFATHER

師傅領進門, 修行在個人.  小廟也可出大和尙!

friendlyguy

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Hi laorenjia,

Apart from self –reading, I remember my son taking an online life science course which is of US middle school level (equivalent to P5 –S2 Hong Kong level) a few years ago. There is a section on the nervous system. Therefore, I took it for granted that Hong Kong high school student should know the word `synapses’. I forgot that some Hong Kong local schools have CMI while others have EMI. Sorry about that.

friendlyguy

laorenjia

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Dear friendlyguy and son
Thanks for the information. It matches with my observations. I asked my daughter and T女, my neighbor. Both learned the word in biology class and both said they have not come across the word outside the class. I also asked two native kids, one in SIS and one in CIS when I bumped into them in our building. Neither knows about the word as neither studies biology in their IB classes. It's a technical word not in our daily language.

Mighty

laorenjia 發表於 15-2-9 18:46
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Dear friendlyguy and son

You are are they dont study Biology in IB class?  My daughter is in Y7 and studies Chemistry, Physics and Biology separately.  First chapter in Biology is about nervous system. Hers is IB system.

long0

非名校教曉了
生命是寶貴的
人人機會相同
要面對的一樣
最重要不放棄

elhihihi

我感覺到筆者是個充滿自信的學生，敢於面對競爭。不因背景的差異而怯於爭取。
她對於懷疑的批評，搜集資料回應，態度正確。 正是學生們所欠缺的。我對筆者的評價是正面的。

反之，為甚麼我們作為成年人的家長，一定要定下一個一個的框架？甚至於限制他們自我表達的方式、用語？
當然我都有底線，我不贊同年青人衝擊法治、粗口爛舌，但我會尊重對方的言論。
年青人有他們的語言表達方式、太多規范只帶來更多反抗、反叛。

laorenjia

Mighty 發表於 15-2-10 09:57
You are are they dont study Biology in IB class?  My daughter is in Y7 and studies Chemistry, Physic ...

The boy is in the final year of IB at SIS. No biology as he is going to read law. The girl is in year 10 at CIS. Presumably you study everything including science up to year 10. I presume it depends on which books they use and the depth they go to up to year 10 or both kids are not particularly thrilled about technical words on nervous systems.

laorenjia

Anyway, Athena is probably gone already. All the big-hearted BK parents can have a rest for now.

HMmummy

其實在社會，不會見到名校與非名校的分別，只會見到你對社會的責任，品行，待人接物，教育成和敗，我睇呢啲！

ernestchow

ACE2126 發表於 15-2-12 17:38
那小姐再閒也沒這裡的大叔大嬸鳥興纏下去…

年輕人今年考DSE, 佢都好忙架,加油,考得佳績,同我地班姨姨.叔叔報喜我支持你架

connielam

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好欣賞你的分享,好同意你的見解.我的囡囡都是在屋村幼稚園及小學讀書,她好像你甘喜歡寫作及看書,在你身上我看到囡囡少少的影子.

StephenKing

這個話題是否可以推至到名牌大學呢？