http://www.simplepersonaldevelopment.com/personal-development/education-not-a-duty-more-a-worthwhile-pursuit Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.simplepersonaldevelopment.com/personal-development/education-not-a-duty-more-a-worthwhile-pursuit/comment-page-1#comment-396 Velma Troup Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:53:54 +0000 http://www.simplepersonaldevelopment.com/personal-development/education-not-a-duty-more-a-worthwhile-pursuit#comment-396 Education is definately a vital field, because every thing in civilization is determined by knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (many of them, anyway). But there are several who appear to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a child. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. That has been the first excellent thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be familiar with the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human issues with what can somewhat 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 book called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through a large number of printings all to make an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing quality? Einstein once said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don't our youngsters ought to get better? Education is definately a vital field, because every thing in civilization is determined by knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (many of them, anyway). But there are several who appear to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a child. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. That has been the first excellent thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be familiar with the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human issues with what can somewhat 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 book called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through a large number of printings all to make an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing quality? Einstein once said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don’t our youngsters ought to get better?

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