How do people learn?
For the sake of resolving this old question, I have dedicated the second half of my lifetime.
My dream started from one failure.
An unsuspected rejection from entering science high school destroyed the boy’s first dream of being a paleontologist. The little paleontologist was frustrated, then made up his mind to develop his second dream:
I hope that no one will be devastated by an inaccurate educational process that evaluates their abilities.
To achieve this goal, I am always eager to know the essence of human learning and education, so that every student can get accurate assessment and feedback.
Physics. I was interested in the relationship between talent for physics and intelligence. Common ideas show that the term genius is associated with physicists: Newton, and Einstein for instance. I thought that analyzing a better way to learn physics could help me specify the components of intelligence, thereby finding the point to evaluate them.
Biology. Near the end of my teenage years, I started to find the answer to the question in science. I had thought that cognitive neuroscience could approach this problem. Therefore, I started learning biology to understand the human brain and to study its learning algorithm.
CS. Analogy is one of the strongest logic tools. To clarify the learning algorithm, I thought that acquiring knowledge about the learning system of AI would be helpful. Now I feel confident that it would be the most game-changing viewpoint to unveil the secret of the human brain in top-down analysis.
I major in three departments, for one dream. I always learn more and more about learning; someday I will be on the cutting edge of human knowledge about human learning.