html Late at night on October 5, 91-year-old William Bertozi received a call from his daughter . He was not surprised at all after receiving the call:
"You won the Nobel Prize, are you?"
For ordinary families, it is almost a happy event that can make people jump up with excitement, but William Bertoch, the old man was extremely calm. This is not only based on the super high literacy of the professor of MIT, but also on the atmosphere of the entire family education environment. At William's family, respect for children has long created more than this educational miracle.
In fact, this family not only cultivated Nobel Prize winner Caroline Bertosey, but her sister Andrea is also a member of the American Academy of Sciences. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles and has achieved great achievements in nonlinear equations.
Caroline's sister Andrea, also an academician of the American Academy of Sciences,
In this way, old William is simply a celebrity idol that parents can pursue. Not only did the Nobel Prize winners be trained, but the family is also an academic fighter. Looking at the children playing with mobile phones at home, the gap is simply too big.
So how did Old William give the Nobel Prize winner and even other members of the family in terms of education? Compared with the legendary life of this Nobel Prize winner, the educational power behind her is also worth thinking about.
#01
Respect and plan
An outstanding educator should do these
For a student, learning talent is essential. But in addition to talent, cultivating love can enable children to truly find the motivation to rush forward.
William Bertozzi almost satisfied his daughter's almost all hobbies. He even educated his daughter since childhood: If you like, do whatever you like, there is nothing that boys should do or girls should do. As long as you determine that something you like, do it.
For this reason, Caroline has developed a hobby almost in her youth, such as football, basketball, and rock. These hobbies are completely discovered with the encouragement of her parents, rather than being "forced" by her parents, which is very important for Caroline.
Caroline in her youth, a standard rock girl
On the one hand, she can discover her love in life and work hard for this love. Most people can only see her achievements in these interests, but few people can understand that she has also put in a lot of effort and even suffered a lot of injuries for these hobbies.
On the other hand, being able to learn these hobbies at that time made her "maverick" and she knew what she wanted and insisted on it firmly. This became an important factor in her future achievement in her field.
Of course, William is not completely "free-stocking". He can always plan his direction for his children in the key choices of life. For example, in the music field, although Caroline has shown amazing talent, William still asked him to change the track because he saw that her talent is not able to support her in fulfilling her dreams.
Note that it is not that she is not supported here, , but that she decisively sees her upper limit in this regard, which is very important. Understanding is not letting go. Old William acts decisively when it is time to take action. How sensitive is
? You should know that Caroline's band partner during her time at Harvard was today's Riff master, Tom Morello, who is known as one of the 100 greatest guitarists. Being able to play with such people shows how talented Caroline's music is.
When Caroline won the award, the legendary guitarist also sent congratulations to
At that time, the two of them were calling the wind and rain in the band and toured in major cities across the United States. It is logical that Caroline's future has a way out.Even so, William still stopped his daughter's musical dream in time. According to his words, he couldn't feel that his daughter could support herself on this road.
This is exactly the case. When Caroline looked back on her life many years later, she also admitted that her musical talent is indeed not as good as Tom.
Treat education and children, respect what should be respected, and never hesitate when it is time to take action. Of course, we cannot deny Caroline's own talent and hard work, but we must also see that behind the success, has an invisible hand helping her develop her own personality and formulate a direction for her to move forward. This is the power of education.
#02
Maverick
It is important to find your own focus for your children
In youth, Caroline found herself through interests. Under the guidance of her father's "Do whatever you like", Caroline developed a very independent personality.
There are two main things that play out in life: one is her coming out of college, and the other is her successful transformation in chemistry.
In that era, Americans were very resistant to coming out. Even at Harvard University, which was academically enlightened, no chemistry laboratory was willing to take her in due to Caroline's coming out.
As a sexual minority, Caroline was not understood at Harvard at that time, but she did not succumb to
If it were ordinary people, breaking up + compromising one-stop is undoubtedly the most utilitarian and the route that most people would choose. But she did not do so due to her independent personality. If organic chemistry doesn’t work, look for biochemistry, and if biochemistry refuses, look for physical chemistry. Although they are constantly rejected, Caroline has never compromised.
Finally in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, she completed her bachelor's thesis with outstanding performance and won the Thomas T. Hoopes Undergraduate Thesis Award.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, compromise or hiding to learn the organic chemistry she is most interested in is the best way, but for her, she understands that some things need to be persisted in.
persistence, this quality we have really heard of since childhood that our ears are rotten, but in real life, how many people can stand up to this creed under tremendous pressure? Very few.
Similarly, the characteristic of independence is also reflected in her doctoral degree study. During her doctoral career in Berkeley, her supervisor had to leave the subject due to rectal cancer, but Caroline did not give up but "guid herself" with two other students.
Although there are certain institutional loopholes, she guided herself to complete her doctoral studies. This courage alone is a doctoral student that is difficult for ordinary people to do. This is unimaginable in the eyes of ordinary people. However, with her independent personality, she insisted on not only completing the paper with the other two classmates, but also published six articles by the first author, successfully applied for a postdoctoral bonus, and continued her own research.
What supports her behind this success has always been her unique personality. She does not retreat and dares to take responsibility in the face of difficulties. This is the pain point of contemporary my country's education. In our education, it is often the "law of survival" taught by parents. But in an international educational environment, we also need someone to tell their children:
"You need to stick to yourself."
Talent mining and stick to yourself. These things are the points that we often ignore in our education at present. is indeed not wrong in pursuing grades, but while achieving children, we may also need to figure out what the child wants and what he wants to be? Understanding and respecting children is sometimes the best secret to children.
Finally, if you want to know more about education, please pay attention to the school selection business, see you next time.
