I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my father a couple of years ago, looking out over the snow-covered yard. There was a rustle in the old rowan tree: Once again, I was amazed at the number of tits at my parents' bird feeder. Great tits, Eurasian blue tits, willow tits, coal tits. - Hey, is that a coal tit, I asked Dad, who had done his Master's thesis on tits at the University of Turku in the late 1970's. His research project included hours of winter-time observation, with binoculars, no tech assisted business back then, at the bird feeder of the Ruissalo research station. He continued his observation routine over three winters. Three winters! Who would do such research nowadays! Headline: "The virtue of a tit researcher is patience". Martti Kohonen in the photo. Publication date unknown, late 1970s, Helsingin Sanomat. Dad hardly looked at the bird feeder and said, "Yes, it’s a coal tit". - How can you tell that, you barely turned your head, ...
On learning and education. Critically. Texts both in English and Finnish, side by side.// Oppimisesta ja koulutuksesta. Kriittisesti. Suomeksi ja englanniksi, vieri vieressä.