低齡留學，雙語娃的中文學習怎麼辦，你想好了嗎？
When Dr Xiaoyun Peng moved her daughter into a British Year 1 classroom at an age when Chinese children are still in kindergarten, the universal question was whether the child's Chinese would survive. Her answer begins with a question back: what level of Chinese are you actually asking for — enough to order food and talk to grandparents, or Chinese as a working and academic language? The two goals require different methods. Drawing on Steven Pinker's account of the language instinct and on the family's own philosophy-for-children practice, she argues that written drill turns language into calligraphy while discussion turns it into thought. The decisive mechanism is the peer effect: children sustain a mother tongue when they need it to argue with other children, not when parents enforce it at home.
AI時代，哲學系的人為什麼不怕找不到工作？
Chinese philosophy graduates have become minor celebrities: one sells grilled sausages with a philosophy question attached, another won a stand-up comedy championship. Dr Xiaoyun Peng argues these are not signs of underemployment but of a trained willingness to ask what work is for. She draws on David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs to explain why philosophy students are quick to doubt the value of respectable-looking work, and cites Georgetown CEW data showing philosophy majors' median pay rising from roughly $39,000 early career to $81,000 mid-career, with HESA figures putting UK philosophy graduates ahead of history and English five years out. Her husband, Dr Yan, left a philosophy doctorate for primary school teaching and became a pioneer of philosophy for children in China. The argument is that philosophy produces people who create work rather than depend on it.