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Artemis Ray
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🪻 Science, education, photography, literature and raf coffee 🔖 PhD in Physics (Condensed Matter, ISCED lvl 8) 💠 Associate Professor at Physics teaching methods department 🔹 He/him 🔹Love wins

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It’s not just about how to be brave like a lion or a polar bear, but about how to raise that lion inside you. The simple key? Take off the psychological armor. It’s not about being brave—it’s about coping with the stress of being brave.

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January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
It’s a book about life, I suppose. About how to communicate with others—and, more importantly, how to communicate with yourself. How to acknowledge those strange little things deep in your mind that block you from your feelings. At least, that’s how I see it.

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January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Wow
That’s… astonishing
January 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM
So how do we navigate this? How do we balance respect, authority, and humanity in education — especially when the roles are so uneven? And how does this change as students grow into adults?
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#Education #Pedagogy #Teaching #Humanity
January 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
But after ~25, education should shift. The teacher becomes less of a "mentor" and more of a senior peer — someone to learn with, not just from. The dynamic changes from guidance to collaboration, from hierarchy to partnership.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
The student is powerless in the face of the teacher’s authority — there’s an inherent status conflict. But if a student oversteps, they risk making the teacher “uncomfortable”. The teacher is a fully formed individual; the student (school and university) is still becoming.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
This isn’t just about vulnerability or detachment; it’s about hierarchy, power, and the balance between respecting boundaries and allowing enough closeness for humanity to show.

If a teacher fails to maintain distance, they put the student at a disadvantage.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
This process is universal. It doesn’t matter if the task is calculative, qualitative, or experimental—the mental journey is the same. We model, predict, evaluate, and decide. It’s how we make sense of the world, one problem at a time.
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#Physics #Education #CognitiveScience #ProblemSolving
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We rely on past experience because patterns only emerge through repetition. By recognizing these patterns, we predict the final link in the chain—then judge whether the outcome is desirable or not, again based on what we’ve learned before. The final step? The core act: making a decision.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
From a psychological perspective, solving a problem is also about integrating your worldview. It’s a moment when your fragmented ideas, beliefs, and past experiences come together to form a coherent understanding of how the world works—at least in the context of that problem.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dogs are the best for health and mind, and life!
Everyone knows it, but that must be mentioned every now and again 🐾
December 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So adorable! 🤩
December 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
These barriers are tricky. They can mislead you, sending you in the wrong direction when you least expect it.

But cognitive barriers are also opportunities. They force you to pause, reflect, and ask: Where do I begin?

#education #psychology #learning
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM