#70_Deepening Learning Through Dialogue

I have been continuing to hold study sessions locally.
While I am active online with the goal of gathering a certain number of people and expanding reach,
I also want a space where I can learn thoroughly in person with a small group, so I am creating this kind of learning environment.

There were seven people this time.
They even came from neighboring prefectures, and we deepened our learning by focusing on mock lessons.

The mock lesson time is 15 minutes.
It takes a bit of ingenuity to refine the content to fit within that time.

Selecting the right questions.
Carefully examining how much of the responses to incorporate.
How to assemble that to create a lesson.
It was a very good time where difficulty and interest were intertwined.

The content item is 'Honesty and Sincerity'.
What kind of person is an honest person?
What does it mean to live honestly?
Does being blindly honest mean you end up being a fool?
When you dig deep into honesty, it is very profound.
While creating the lesson, we explored its meaning through dialogue.

When there are many people, it inevitably shifts from a dialogue-based format to a lecture-based one.
I feel like it becomes a place where knowledge is given rather than a place for thinking.
It is fine for knowledge to be given, but I think the key to moral education is how one can deepen their own thoughts based on that knowledge.
Actually, I suppose that applies to subject education as well.

There was a teacher in their fourth year who participated for the first time.
A teacher with a high awareness of wanting to learn more.
Since this was their first time participating in this format, I am a little curious about how they felt.

I think I will try contacting them tomorrow.