As a professional Mandarin instructor with almost two decades worth of teaching experience in American schools, I came to recognize how language-learning in a school setting is only one step in the long journey of acquiring a foreign language. I felt a need and urge to bring my profession beyond school, and I believe professional teaching should be accessible to anyone at any point in their life. It is with this belief that I founded MAD Mandarin LLC in 2018 with the goal to incorporate the latest teaching methods with my own innovative approach of Mindful-Active-Dynamic to positively achieve the best language-learning results.
“知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也” — “Knowing is knowing, (but) not knowing is not knowing. This (mindset) is indeed of wisdom.” The quote is from Analects (论语），an ancient Chinese book composed of a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers.
The sentence teaches to face and accept ourselves with honesty. This attitude plays a very important role as we are studying Mandarin.
