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When memorizing things I like to read it aloud over and over. I sometimes imagine them literally doing whatever they are supposed to do inside my head. I use mnemonics. I memorize their first syllables and make useless sounds with it.
Sometimes I just use their first letters. I’m pretty desperate when it comes to memorizing. […]
Has anyone told you that parents are the most important and most influential teachers in the life of children? Have you also heard an educator emphasized that it is very difficult to raise children in the city due to materialism and hedonism, and the existing state of criminality and drug addiction in the urban […]
No matter what other say, and no matter how old fashioned it may seem, I still have a penchant for human edited directories and similar services like the San Diego yellow pages, Wikipedia, and Open-Site.
Although there are some biased factors when humans do the editing, and it generally may take time to get something listed, […]
I have always thought that being multi-lingual was not only a great edge in getting jobs, but also a great opportunity to know a particular country and its citizens better. Since my family have some Spanish background, my first priority was to take up a Spanish Language Course.
Then again, Japanese courses are becoming more […]
Allow me to share with you the short letter that woke me up in my long deep slumber as a teacher:
Dear Teacher,
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physician… So, I am suspicious of education. My […]
But whose experience?!
Martin Vanbee states, “Learn from the experience of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” Relatedly, we often hear people say, “It is good to learn from your experience, but it is best to learn from the experience of others”. Besides, according to Vernon Law, “EXPERIENCE is a […]
The “right to education” is one of the basic rights a human being or a person must have. Thus in fully developed countries that had built enough schools and trained their teachers, parents could be imprisoned if they don’t send their children to school.
In the developing countries and even in the underdeveloped ones, government authorities […]