I always encourage my students to challenge the authority. In class, if they correct me, they can win 2 points for their team. I love the sporadic challenges from the students in class. That means they are thinking critically.
Yesterday something interesting happened in Class 310. Around 10 minutes before the class was dismissed, I told the students there was a small but important mistake in Unit 17 in the translation book we used and that the first one who pointed it out could win a carton of milk. I expected them to tell me today since we'd discuss the unit in today's class. To my surprise, in the blink of an eye , Pei-yi (林佩儀) came up to me and told me about her finding. She didn't succeed. Then quite a few students came to me one after another. Near the end of the class, they even squatted in a circle in the front of the classroom having a discussion, when the rest of the class were singing the song "Hero." What a sight! Finally, Pei-yi successfully located the mistake.
It was a pity that I didn't have a camera with me to capture their inquisitiveness.
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