http://dandelioncommunitea.com A rockin little teahouse with an eco-attitude Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:28:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://dandelioncommunitea.com/events/education/comment-page-1/#comment-2631 Federico Klebe Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:57:42 +0000 http://dandelioncommunitea.com/?page_id=842#comment-2631 Education is such a vital field, because every thing in the world depends upon knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are a few who seem to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. This was the first truly good thing I had heard from a history tutor. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be aware of the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human issues with what can otherwise be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I've this publication called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through lots of printings all to create an easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once declared that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can give you the foundation. Imagination may take you to the stars. Don't our children deserve better? Education is such a vital field, because every thing in the world depends upon knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are a few who seem to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. This was the first truly good thing I had heard from a history tutor. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be aware of the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human issues with what can otherwise be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I’ve this publication called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through lots of printings all to create an easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once declared that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can give you the foundation. Imagination may take you to the stars. Don’t our children deserve better?

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