The Lecture Delivered by Professor Hong

On Saturday afternoon, May 16th, I went to auditorium to listen a lecture delivered by Professor Hong Lan. She talked about reading and learning which related to neuron in brain. It is interesting for me to explore the inside brain because I had never touched that field except for reading some simple reference books. In other words, it’s my first time to have a chance to have a lesson on professional “Cranial Nerve” Science.

Before I went to this lecture, I was a little afraid that I would have no sense about what Professor Hong talks about. But it seems that I worried too over. Instead, Professor Hong used an easy way and realistic story to explain the relationships between reading, learning and neuron in our brain.

The first information Professor Hong told us was that “everyone has their excellence; we should not ignore their advantages and “cram” the other they may not good at.” The most profound example was the great scientist—Albert Einstein. He was amazingly good at the conception of space. However, the recourses of brain were limited. He was completely a stupid on language, including speaking, reading and writing abilities. Professor Hong claimed, after analyzing on Einstein brain that he devoted for research, we found that the control center of language in his brain was totally non-developed. If Einstein’s mother or teacher forced him to learn how to improve his language ability, he must be crazy. Therefore, for the reason that everyone has their telnets, we should not limit them in an autocratic, single way; we have to leave a room for them to grow, instead.

There was also a vivid story related to read that Professor Hong shared with us. She said that when his son was in elementary school, he was not interested in novel. Unfortunately, his teacher led him to study a novel during summer vocation. He suffered a lot at that time. Then, being his mother, Professor Hong knew his learning condition, and went to tell his teacher that his homework would be pictures about novel’s plot. Finally, his son was exciting and read many times in order to figure out the plot and setting. After he finished his pictures, he didn’t think that he read the novel he hated before; but in fact, he did read it. This experience tells us that “to cater ones pleasure, there will be an astonishing learning.”

There were too many points that Professor Hong shared with us, and it was not enough to say. Here is a picture which about what Professor Hong had told. Have a look at it, it is really interesting!