影響我一生的老師，不全都站在講台上｜The Teachers Who Changed My Life Weren’t All in Classrooms

離開學校這麼多年，老師當年教過我的課本內容，大部分早就忘了。 但很奇怪，有些老師教我看事情的方法，二、三十年後，竟然還留在我身上。 大學時，George W. Lytle 老師讓我學會不要急著證明自己是對的，而是試著站到反方，懷疑自己的答案。 26年前在新竹師院，「管大刀」管建中教授帶我第一次正式接觸邏輯。短短一段學習經歷，卻改變了我後來判斷事情的方式。 2018年的瑜伽師資訓練，Sucharita 又讓我認識 Abundance——世界不一定是一場零和遊戲，別人過得好，不代表我的人生就少了什麼。 到了現在，我的老師甚至不一定是「人」。 AI成為我的 thought partner，陪我學習、備課、閱讀、旅行、做YouTube；而走到人生這個階段，我也慢慢發現，跟了自己最久的那位老師，其實就是自己。 回頭看這些老師，我真正記得的，好像都不是某一頁課本。 他們留下來的，是我看世界的方法。 但這也讓現在仍然站在教室裡的我開始思考另一個問題： 當知識已經不再只能從老師身上取得， AI幾秒鐘就能回答許多問題， 我們到底還需要老師做什麼？ 這個問題，留到下一支影片。 Years after leaving school, I’ve forgotten most of what my teachers taught me from textbooks. But somehow, the way some of them taught me to think has stayed with me for decades. One teacher taught me to question my own answers instead of simply trying to prove myself right. Another introduced me to logic and changed the way I examine arguments and assumptions. Years later, during my yoga teacher training, I learned about abundance—the idea that someone else having more doesn’t necessarily mean I have less. And today, some of my teachers aren’t even human. AI has become a thought partner in the way I learn, teach, read, travel, and create. Along the way, I’ve also realized that the teacher who has stayed with me the longest may be myself. Looking back, what remains isn’t a page from a textbook. It’s the way these teachers changed how I see the world. And as a teacher myself, that leaves me with another question: If knowledge is now everywhere—and AI can answer so many of our questions in seconds—what do we still need teachers for? That’s a question for my next video.