국내 1호 과학탐험가의 방법과 아이들의 호기심 키우기 비법

In fact, it is not common to have the experience of going to the desert, and it  is also not common to be transformed there.

 You're saying this with a smile now, but you were almost on the verge of death when you gave it to me.

 What did you feel there? In fact, if we were to pick the best spot in Korea from a natural science perspective, we couldn't leave out Jeju Island.

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  When I went on an overseas expedition, foreign scientists showed incredible interest in Jeju.

 Why do you come to other countries to explore Jeju Island when it is so great?  I  used to think that Jeju Island was just a tourist destination, but right after liberation from Japanese colonial rule,  in this small rural village on Jeju that was in ruins, a teacher went exploring with his children into caves, forests, and mountains, and even kept records.

 This behavior was the epitome of ideal education .

 I don't know if it was thanks to this education, but a world-renowned physicist was born at this small village .

 Oh, that's really touching.

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 hello? This is Garden Family Bruce Pidi, who only provides practical educational insights .

 Everyone, today's garden guest is.

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 Actually, a few years ago, I was watching a TV show called Hyorin's Inn, and  there was this person who gave such helpful advice.

 And that person is right here in front of me .

 We have invited Captain Moon Kyung-soo, who is well known for his country's first scientific exploration.

 Hello.

 Nice to meet you.

 This is Moon Kyung-soo, a scientist.

 Oh, Captain, I am truly honored.

 Could you please introduce yourself? yes.

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 My name is Moon Kyung-soo, a science explorer.

 Well, since my job is an explorer, next year will be my 20th year, and during those 20 years, I have explored many places on Earth .

 Well, if I may introduce myself in more detail, I   have been exploring Mars for a long time with NASA scientists.

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 And the dinosaur researchers who study the dinosaurs our children love so much .

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 With these people, we went to the Gobi Desert and other deserts and did a lot of dinosaur fossil excavations.

 And also, in recent years, I have become very interested in volcanoes, so  I have been exploring a lot of volcanic areas like Iceland, Hawaii, and the Canaan Islands .

 Now, what many people are curious about is, when you talk about exploration like that, how on earth are you going to do that? Me too, really.

 For me, exploration is like a big playground where I can discover stories .

 Inspiring, isn't it? So, exploring isn't just about going out for fun .

 Well, we go on expeditions and collect various types of data and stories .

 Well, in this case, even dinosaur fossils can be data to me.

  We are   collecting these invisible weather data and the various stories contained within them, and creating various contents and experiences that people might like.

 Oh, these days, our country is also very interested in space.

 So now, in our country, there is a company that makes moon robots .

 So now I'm acting as a consultant for that company, and the advice I give is, well, actually, when we go to Darina or Mars later, we have to debut in advance.

 But in fact, there are many stations on Earth that have environments similar to those on Mars or on the bridges.

 Then, we need to do simulation tests in a similar environment with the robot we made, and it is  very important to see if it will work in the actual field.

 I have this field experience, and I also do work where the robot recovers, and as a result, I give a lot of lectures.

 Sir, you said you were stranded in the Australian desert for three days ? Yes, yes.

 I remember going on an expedition to the Hoodoo Desert in the early days of exploration, and my car had problems, so I abandoned it and walked 200km in the desert for three and a half days  .

 The car got stuck and got stuck in a small swamp .

 But there were slopes on all sides and there was no way.

 But the key thing is that  there are no people or any environment within a 500km radius of the location where the disaster occurred.

 And of course, since the transfer didn't work out and things like that, we had no choice but to come out, but for now, we just took the bare minimum tools we needed to survive.

 How many of you were there? There were two people.

 It was really scary.

 But what scared me the most was that although there are no wolves living in Australia, there are wolf packs called Dingol, which are the gospel of wolves .

 It was really scary because I heard that crying sound every night .

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 Wow, it really sounded exactly like the wolf howl I heard in the documentary .

 If you ask for a little more detail, when the leader wolf starts howling first, the subordinate wolves around him start howling in unison.

 Now that I hear the sound of the right arrow, I do n't really have any other complicated thoughts in my mind.

 I just   need to somehow minimize the weight of the luggage I'm carrying and run away quickly the way I came.

  How can you know if you can't think about going further? yes.

 So anyway, the only path we know is the one we came from back, so let's start walking back now.

  The problem was that the desert was so barren that I couldn't tell which way I was going even though I was coming from the same direction.

 But now that we think about it, the biggest driving force that allowed us to escape that situation was that we  were able to see the constellations.

 Honey, I'll come at night, but it has to be night first.

 Yes, that's right.

 So, I walked during the day with some uncertainty anyway, but what about food? There was no food at all.

 There was none at all, and since it  was the dry season in Australia at the time, the water was just barely showing the bottom of the lake, but if you walked for a few dozen kilometers, there were small puddles of water swarming with mosquitoes.

 I understood Ambassador Won-yo's feelings at that time .

 At first, I was wondering if I should just boil it and eat it, but I did n't have the energy to do that.

 First of all, after walking all day in that desert where the temperature is almost 50 degrees, your body will be on fire.

 So, when you see that kind of water, you have to roll over first.

 Because we need to lower our body temperature .

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 And then I just ate it.

 Anyway, now I can't move through the dark during the day like that  .

 But the only good thing was that we could see the constellations, and since we knew the approximate size of Australia and where we were, we could easily get out if we walked this much in a day .

 I had this confidence.

 And the most important thing is that when you are in a situation like this, it is very important to find an unchanging milestone .

 But the constellations don't move .

 The Earth just rotates.

 So, when we usually study constellations in science class in school, we  wonder, “Where can I use this?” But no.

  The simple knowledge we learned in the classroom could really save my life.

 That's why I really wish more people knew about things like constellations.

 They serve as a  kind of milestone in uncertain situations, so if you look at these constellations with your children, and if you go camping or something like that, you can check it out.

 It's really true.

 In fact, it is not common to have the experience of going to the desert, and it  is also not common to be transformed by it.

 You're saying this with a smile now, but you gave it to me when I was almost at the brink of death.

 What did you feel there? Actually, I found it quite ironic.

  If you went through such hardships, would you go back to Houju? Ah, I think you'll see it as a can too.

 Yes, that's right.

 That's right, but what's really ironic is that the sight of the Australian continent that I saw when I was walking out, hungry and tired,  was so beautiful.

 In the meantime.

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 And then, all of a sudden, I had a very strong feeling that I was really living, walking on the surface of this planet called Earth  .

 So, although it was difficult, I  want to know a little more about this planet called Earth, where I live with my two feet on the ground.

 Because of that, I realized that I should not just do this exploration thing as a hobby, but I should make it my profession.

 Oh, so in this situation, I've been having a lot of thoughts like this.

 What I mean is, I think our society is a bit stingy when it comes to the words failure and trial and error .

  When we look at our children these days, we often say things like this.

 Hey,  why are you interested in such trivial things that no one else cares about ? Why are you stuck there? What are you going to do with it later if you like it? People talk about this a lot, but I personally wish the word failure would be removed from the Korean dictionary or its meaning would change a little.

 Yesterday, I explored and worked with many foreign scientists, so I think that if you express the word failure in another sentence, failure is another form of experiential data.

 So the context is that these days, regardless of the field, experience is very important .

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 So now,  in order for us to get to a certain goal, there has to be a time where this failure, another form of experience, accumulates and is accumulated, so that we can  reach that goal accurately, even if it is a little slow.

 And once this process is internalized in my body, wouldn't I be able to achieve other goals more quickly and effectively next time ? How can we raise our children to be less afraid of failure and more willing to take on challenges ? Since this is what my dad does, at first he really wanted to follow along .

 But now, until he was in the lower grades of elementary school, we just went to places nearby, and now that he is in the fourth grade, he said he wanted to go to Hallasan, so I took him there from time to time.

 But really, my only concern was the climate .

 Children climb mountains better .

 I trained him like that, and now that he's in middle school, I've  had him accompany me on one or two overseas expeditions.

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 I took her to Iceland and made her go with me, but now that I'm going to go like that, I'll just follow my dad and go overseas.

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 So, I apply the same .

 I study in advance when I go on an expedition .

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 Oh, I have to go through enough up to this point and become a match for Dad before I can take you here.

 But that can also be a   burden to children, who may think, “Oh, I have to study first before going on a trip.

” But if you roll this up a little, kids really like it.

 Well, if that's the case, you're not just going on a trip with your dad, you're  following along on his expedition as a member of his team, so you have to take on this role.

 In this case, I would have you drive, but if you learned how to read a map well and gave directions, or if   you studied English harder and helped with interpretation because I can't talk to everyone when I'm busy with various things, then I   could take you there.

 When I gave you a sense of purpose, he started to change a bit.

 One time, I went on an expedition to Australia with some scientists.

 An astrophysicist brought his child .

 How old are you in this place where you can drive a car in the desert with a maximum of 5% of the population ? uh? I was six years old.

 It was a girl, and I still remember her name: Elsa.

 The name is.

 So, hey, why did you bring this irony here? Then he asked, what's the problem? yes.

 And they don't take care of anything else either, and they just drive around in the same scientists' cars .

 One day, he woke up in the morning and suddenly woke up in mode.

  He called out to me and said that he had gone for a walk this morning and had found something here .

 Then, scientists right now have a very tight schedule and have to go, so they can just say, “Okay, I understand .

” But suddenly, when our expedition leader says, "Hey everyone," he starts collecting them all.

 Oh, Elsa just found something, so let's go there quickly, and since we wouldn't have enough time if we walked, she  brought us six four-wheel drive vehicles, made us all ride in them, and made Elsa get on board the ancestor's vehicle, and she gave us directions.

  I went there and saw that the Australian aborigines had drawn petroglyphs on the rocks.

 It  was so much fun for me to discover this.

 Even children know the facts.

 We are all the same human beings.

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   Because children are equally curious and, in some ways, their sense of curiosity is even greater than that of adults, there are many things that adults can learn from children .

 Maybe it's not just my child, but all children are really into school life and are completely absorbed in their smartphones, so do  n't think, "Why am I doing this or that?" and just go out with them.

 I think that any child will feel that feeling that nature gives them and have the curiosity to awaken on their own, and I think that everyone has the same curiosity.

 I also want to continue to develop scientific curiosity in my children and   hope they have the stamina to explore on their own.

 In that context, what kind of science content can develop children’s curiosity in a healthy way ? In fact, science is very important in conveying facts.

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 There should be no errors.

 That's why the   children have no errors, even though the photos and data about the latest research or sites conducted by scientists are the basis.

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 So, it is important for children to look at pictures or sketches, but I think that for scientific content, looking at photographs is the most intuitive.

 Oh, it's real, it's real.

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 Because in my case, I've seen a lot of National Jepik spicy food before.

 The emotion that one photo can give is incredible.

 Not only the natural phenomenon in that photo, but also the journey of scientists to find that natural phenomenon, the hardships, and the joy this person feels when he discovers it, all of these things are captured in that one photo.

  The feeling I get when I go to that scene later with that photo in my hand is something that cannot be replaced by anything else .

 This natural phenomenon is something that I don't always see at the time I want .

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 The difficult thing is the volcano.

 They don't give any warning as to when it will explode .

 In order to film the actual Hwasan, it has to be on the news first .

 Volcanic activity has started in Iceland right now, so it's time to fly away, but we don't know how long this volcanic eruption will continue.

 Will it just spew out a little lava and stop for a day or will it take months or more?  Even if you take all those things into consideration, the  sword doesn't always come out like we see in movies or videos.

 So, just to take a single photo of a dynamic volcanic eruption, you  often have to wait in the vicinity for over a week.

 In a way, you have to invest more than half of your entire trip just to take that one photo .

 I heard you went with that high school student.

 Yes.

 When I went there, the volcanic terrain that I mentioned also appeared here.

 Here's a photo of Iceland's terrain, and I think it's a very meaningful photo.

 It's where the plates are far apart.

  As we move away, a gap like this appears in our perception, and magma rises above it .

 But actually, there aren't many places where you can see such photos, and here, there is a photo just like that.

 This photo.

 So, in fact, knowing this information now will    provide us with data that can help us predict more precisely which regions are more prone to volcanic activity.

 Sir, summer vacation season is approaching .

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 So, I actually  want to give my child some meaningful experiences, but honestly, it  's a bit difficult to go all the way to Iceland.

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 It's a bit burdensome, but in that sense, instead of going anywhere else in the country, come here once.

 It's a great place that has scientific value and can help you develop your exploration skills.

 Let me  give you a little tip.

 If we were to pick the best spot in Korea in terms of natural science, we couldn't leave out Jeju Island.

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  When I went on an overseas expedition, foreign scientists showed a tremendous interest in Jeju.

 Why do you come to another country to explore Jeju Island when it's so amazing? You even have to come all the way here to talk about it.

 But from my perspective, I know that Jeju Island is a volcanic island, but it does  n't have lava like Iceland.

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  It 's not that dramatic.

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 So I  thought Jeju Island was just a tourist destination, but the truth is that when it comes to volcanoes, the  spectacular scenes of lava flowing from an eruption are important, but the most important thing is how many different volcanic regions there are, and the geological diversity is really important.

 But Jeju Island also has nearly 200 of the world's largest lava caves created by volcanic activity .

 And it also exists  in the world's most unique ecosystem called Gojahwal, where a forest is created on top of the lava land that was formed when the lava cooled .

 Besides that,   I think Jeju Island has all the sculptures that a volcano can create, from hundreds of volcanoes to the top .

 I think it would be great to see Jeju Island as an island of exploration, not just a tourist destination, and to create an expedition team with your family and go on a trip .

 But especially, over the past 7 or 8 years, while exploring Jeju Island with various scientists, I have witnessed many amazing sights, and  there was one unexpected point that struck my heart the most.

 Especially from an educational perspective, I would like to recommend that you visit this place .

 This is Manjanggul Cave in Jeju Island.

 Is this Manjanggul Cave? Oh, why? yes.

 Well, Manjanggul Cave  has the ninth longest ears in the world in terms of length alone.

 But in terms of scale, it is a fairly large cave, one that ranks among the top three in the world  .

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 So now Jeju Island has played a very central role in being listed as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site  .

 But there is another value to this Manjanggul Cave that is not visible.

 It   contains the story of the elementary school teacher and children who first discovered this cave 80 years ago.

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 What does it sound like? Actually, if we do a lot of research, we might think that scientists will discover it, but when we look into it, it turns out that elementary school students actually discovered the East 80 years ago .

 There is a teacher named Bujeong who was appointed as a first-year teacher at Eojeong Kim Young Elementary School right after liberation .

 After this person was liberated, he graduated from college and took up a post at his own church, so he  wanted to do something more for the children.

 At that time, there was no such thing as an academy.

 So, outside of the regular curriculum, you created three special activity classes, and the first one you created was a science class.

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 Because he thought that in order for the liberated country to survive, we would need many scientists .

 And secondly, because artistic activities are as important as science, we created a music club.

 And lastly, I created the shoes because I thought I needed to find some of the children's lost curiosity as they were oppressed during the Japanese colonial period  .

 Okay, so now you've made three legs, but there's a problem.

 What I mean is, I just created a science class, but I  can't make the kids do it all the time.

 Right? So, the teacher was  wondering what to do about this, and in the summer of 1946, he secretly took a boat to Japan with Mirang and brought back a microscope.

 why? I'm going to show the kids the microscopic world .

 He   took his children to Mt.

 Halla for training because systematic physical management was important for them to go on expeditions, which he cherished the most.

  I   think he was a true teacher and a true benefactor, like Da Vinci.

 Okay, anyway, now you've made three classes and, uh, you've worked hard, but actually, I think this teacher, uh, personally, the exploration class was the one that he wanted to try the most .

 Because I grew up in Jeju when I was young, there must have been a lot of caves there.

 But at that time, the cave had not been investigated, so when you tried to enter the cave, the elders in the village would say, “ Oh no, I’m going to die there,” “There are ghosts,” and there were so many reasons why you couldn’t enter .

 But this teacher, after studying in college, decided that there must be many caves underground in his hometown, Jeju Island, just like Hawaii, and he   wanted to explore them with his students.

 Okay, but if you want to go on an expedition, the most important thing is that the principal gives permission, right?  It could be safe, right? Right? So now, with one month left until the expedition, I'm  going to ask the principal for permission.

 Teacher,   what do you think the principal's reaction was when I told him that I was going to go cave exploring with the kids? You said to go alone, right? Well, it 's not an easy task these days.

 Of course, we also have experiential learning.

 But the player said this.

 No, Mr.

 Vice-Minister, how did you come up with such a great idea ? Our precious children, Kim Myung, have set out to make great discoveries, and we cannot just send them away.

 So, on the day of the expedition, at 6 AM, we gather all the students in the school playground and hold an expedition team inauguration ceremony .

 And before going out to work, the parents woke up early in the morning and packed two lunch boxes.

 They also made several pairs of sandals to  put on the children's waists because they needed to navigate the rough terrain of the cave.

 Okay, so after finishing the inauguration ceremony at 6 in the morning, we packed lunches and then, these days, a school bus would come and help the kids get on, but back then, there was nothing like that, so we walked for another hour and a half .

 Now, we have arrived at the starting point of Manjanggul Cave, the undisclosed section of Manjanggul Cave .

 At that time, a few elementary school students,  about 30 students in the 5th or 6th grade, formed an exploration team and moved together .

 But just because we're a small group of explorers, we must never underestimate them.

  It has its own organizational chart.

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 First, the children with the most courage  were assigned to the torch group, where they would lead the way holding torches.

 And to light the torches, you need oil, so the strong kids were  put in charge of the supply team carrying the oil cans.

 Lastly, there was another really secret class, and I got goosebumps when I heard about this class .

 In one class, the teacher said this to the children: Guys, we're never coming here to play.

 If we were to be the first in the world to discover this cave, we would need to precisely measure the length and width of the cave and  record these figures in a document to pass them on to future generations in order for the exploration to be complete.

 So we just selected the really bright kids and made a survey.

  You actually adopted the exact same method that scientists use.

 But what's surprising is that 80 years ago, these surveying kids did n't have measuring tapes or stationery stores .

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 But really, we twisted a little rope to make a 20m tape measure and moved it one, two, three spans, slowly and precisely measuring the length of Manjanggul Cave  to the point where the current length and the fifth ridge were only 500m .

 It's a really ridiculous story, like Tomsoe's adventures, but I'd like to interpret this story of these kids' animal exploration to see  what educational implications it has for us living today  .

 Oh, there has never been a time in human history when 5th graders went to Manjanggu, the world's largest lava cave with a climate worthy of being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site,   holding torches and carrying their children to illuminate it .

 This is not something I just gave up on.

 When judging wild products around the world,  even these introductory facts are considered and the narrative is reflected in it .

 However, even now, if you go to Jeju Island, there is a foundation to commemorate the achievements of Mr.

 Ai Bu-jong  .

 Scholars here  are currently re-evaluating this teacher's achievements.

 What I mean is, you've made so many scientific discoveries.

 Well, what is the more important value? Think about it.

  Right  after liberation from the Japanese colonial period, in this small rural village in Jeju that was in ruins, a teacher  went on an expedition with his children into caves, forests, and mountains, and even kept records.

 This kind of behavior is the epitome of ideal education .

 In other words, it means that a perfect form of education was carried out in an environment that was not separated from nature .

 The reason I'm saying this is because, as I explore, I also feel this.

 I think the greatest value we humans can gain from nature is  awe.

 Awe.

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 So when we are in the middle of this war, we can really feel how big this nature is and how small I really am  .

 I don't know if it's because of this education, but a world-class physicist is born in this little body .

 Oh, this is so touching.

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 There was a physicist named Eo Kim Deok-ju.

 Oh, I'm in Tokyo now.

 After entering the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo and receiving his doctorate, he  worked as a professor in the Department of Physics at a Japanese university until 1997, and  wrote nearly 100 papers related to solid-state physics theory.

 But if you think about it, physics is a discipline that explores the invisible world.

 Then, this abstract ability to simplify this complex reality must be very important.

 But,  in this Jeju Island, a place with a natural environment that is truly unique in the world, he freely expressed his curiosity and imagination, so perhaps this world-class physicist came from Jeju Island? From this small town? Oh, this was an interpretation of the proposal.

 And by coincidence, I once killed a 97-year-old man who was the only survivor of the little one at that time .

 But I asked him.

 Oh, when I asked the teacher what kind of grace he had received from the teacher, the teacher's eyes suddenly widened and he said that the teacher had gone beyond the relationship between us as teachers and students .

 When I heard what he was saying, he told me to think about it.

  Entering that cave, which was as dark as mud, holding hands and relying on a torch, meant that they went beyond a priest-disciple relationship, but were simply fellow expedition members.

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 So now I 'm in my 90s.

 But when I go down the stairs to Manjanggul Cave, I still feel like I went there with my teacher and friends when I was 12 months old, and   it's as if that's what he meant.

 When Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon and took the moon sign, didn't you feel the same way ?  If you could give a word of advice to parents who are worried about their children's future, what would you say? yes.

 Usually when kids are little they really like dinosaurs.

 All 100 dinosaurs can be memorized.

 But when children who loved dinosaurs like this continue to like dinosaurs in middle school and high school, their parents get upset.

 I totally agree.

 Because the field that studies dinosaurs is called paleontology, it is true that the number of career paths that can be pursued by majoring in this field is smaller than in other fields .

 Well, you could work in a museum or do research, but now the world is changing.

 Because while I was excavating dinosaur fossils in the Mongolian Gobi Desert, I got to meet a lot of so-called MG dinosaurologists, and these friends' career paths are becoming more diverse.

 In the past, if you got a PhD in dinosaurs, you would usually  go to a research institute or a museum.

 But not anymore.

 These guys got their PhDs in dinosaurs and then went to Disney Pixar .

 That's it.

 These guys have been dinosaur enthusiasts their whole lives and they even  have PhD-level knowledge about dinosaurs.

 The principle of Julak comes about because these friends decide to learn computer graphics technology and decide to learn programming .

 Difficult concepts like science, and small things like that, will eventually be consumed by people, so to do that, you need to have someone who has the ability to really create a narrative out of those difficult concepts, and to   do that, it's right to work in that field .

 In that context, there   was a recent incident that made me stop nagging my child.

 I once saw an Apple commercial where a child was playing with an iPad.

 The lawn too.

 But when the old man who passed by asked what kind of computer that was, the kid answered, " What is a computer?" That's what it was.

 What this means is that for the first time in human history, we have a generation that doesn't know what a keyboard interface is .

 What would be appropriate for our generation, who learned through the keyboard interface, to say to these kids today ? We've created a generation that has access to more and more diverse information than ever before in human history  .

 So, rather than worrying too much about this, and not interfering too much, children are already more open to information than we are, and they  have the ability to edit more information efficiently.

 So, I want to tell you this confidently, if you create the safest possible framework and really trust children, they will be   able to pursue their own interests and develop their own talents  .

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