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Back to school
- School is the best place
to come back after vacation. School is the place to learn and this mean
to actualise your potential because knowledge is structured in consciousness.
To learn is to remind the eternal memories which are at the basis of your
mind. School is the best place to evolution and in modern times every work
place is a place to learn more, is a school for some specific knowledge.
Time to learn for men tend to become permanent. Soon we will learn permanently
and life will be a school in all his aspects. In fact life is a school
because life has his built in mechanism for learning process. If we do
something bed life and society has a buil in mechanism to punish us and
if we do something good life will offer us an award. This mechanism of
recompense and punish is the hidden teacher of life itself.
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School Quotes
In school, every period ends
with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a
sentence. Steve Wright
A man who has never gone
to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education,
he may steal the whole railroad.
Roosevelt.
Out of life's school of war:
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Niettzche, The Twilight
of the Idols (1888).
The way to improve our schools
is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values,
as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.
Rush Limbaugh.
Accomplishments: Completed
11 years of high school. Real live resume statement
We are students of words;
we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten
or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of
words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
We are shut up in schools
and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at
last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
After finding no qualified
candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
Philip Streifer, Superintendent
of Schools
Education definition 2: What
you must acquire without interference from your schooling.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education. Mark Twain
To be a philosopher is not
merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love
wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau
School days are the unhappiest
in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible
tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common
sense and common decency. H. L. Mencken. (1880-1956)
When I was a kid my favorite
relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave,
and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later
that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
Jack Handey
Wave at kids on school busses.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
We real cool. We Left
school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Think gin. We
Jazz June. We Die soon. Gwendolyn Brooks.
A child educated only at
school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana.
Smartness runs in my family.
When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five
years. George Burns
Whom are you? said he, for
he had been to night school. George Ade
An author ought to write
for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster
of ever afterwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was recently on a tour
of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin
harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Dan Quayle
Can I take an ax to school
tomorrow for, um, Show and Tell?
Calvin.
It is only an auctioneer
who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
We have to abandon the idea
that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world
where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and
half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? Arthur C. Clarke
To me the worst thing seems
to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial
authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity
and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject. Albert Einstein
The point is to develop the
childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition
and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school
demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. Albert Einstein
The minority, the ruling
class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well,
under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the
masses, and make its tool of them.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains
after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Our bombs are smarter than
the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown - American
editor, publisher
When I was in school, I cheated
on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next
to me. Woody Allen
A sense of curiosity is nature's
original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
Experience is a good school,
but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
He who opens a school door,
closes a prison. Victor Hugo (1802-85)
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e-Learning is doubling yearly. Classes, e-courses, e-books on how-to
and what-to appear by the thousands online weekly. In-person
seminars and workshops are limited to location and access.
e-Learning allows easy access, creation, and international
distribution to a whole new world of experiences -- negative and
positive.
Avid learners now feel like there is a smorgasbord laid out before
them. It’s like having teachers and trainers crowded into your den.
Yet, no sooner do you buy one e-learning material, start reading,
and another enticement grabs your attention that is suppose to be
even better, even grander. The flow of new material never seems to
end -- a high percentage poorly written.
Online learning is now starting its climb up the product maturity
bell curve. This means that buyer’s dollars are voting, demanding,
more well thought-out and written material. As an avid on-line
reader, I let out a deep sigh of relief and look forward for this
next wave to occur across the board.
Studying on a computer screen requires different uses of the mind
and eyes. Normally we read in a scanning method when browsing the
Net. Now, with studying, reading will require more deliberate and
careful. This increases material understanding, comprehension,
critical evaluation and practical application.
Adults who have been away from educational studying for awhile, will
need to review again the scope of skills needed to study again. Ones
they learned back in school. For some just thinking about studying
again makes them crawl under the bed covers. Those with less break
time since their studying days, the skills will return much quicker.
If good study skills were not previously learned, there will be some
struggle or frustration that might be experiences while learning the
correct methods and creating new habits. For them it will be like
creating a cake from scratch instead from a package mix.
Note taking
Save your printer ink. Don't print out the material, rely on your
notes and your memory.
Taking ink-created notes is just as important with e-Learning as in
any other type of learning environment. Yes, I did recommend using
good old ink and paper. Note taking isn't just set aside because the
learning material is online. Taking handwritten notes is a key
element in moving new short-term information into long-term
accessibility.
If you would like to have a checkpoint or a measuring stick on what
you are retaining, take note taking to the next level. You will want
to preview the material, as mentioned next, then begin reading and
taking notes. After this, take a break, return, and then type up
your notes. While you are typing add information that you remember
from the material or what you have learned from other sources. Add
whatever is swirling in your mind. This is best way to measure what
you have retained and what is still missing. If there is something
in your notes that doesn't make sense, then you will know what you
need to reread and start the process again within that smaller
scope. You can even ask further in-depth questions (see below).
Preview
Review and scan all the material. If the material is large, scan the
entire area, then return to one smaller section at a time and chunk
it. Read titles, subheadings, and spend a few extra minutes on any
diagrams or memory aids. Look for patterns in the material. If the
material is well-written you will always discover one or more
patterns. Patterns help mind-visual-understanding associations. Is
there a quick summary at the end of each chapter? If yes, read this
during your preview. Previewing is important whether the new
material feels comfortable or is stretching you.
When previewing follow ideas and major concepts more closely rather
than words. Let titles and heading provide clues and guidance. If
the author is playing cutesy with the headings — the title doesn't
match the contents--rewrite the headings so that they fit something
that can help your memory.
By reading the introductory and concluding paragraphs first, you
will also be able to calculate what you're reading pace will need to
be, how much time you will need to set aside, and the amount of
effort.
Environment
Take special care of your eyes when reading from the computer
screen. Take frequent eye breaks by refocusing them on some object
far away. If your eyes are bothering you, there are special computer
reading eye drops available. If you wear bifocals, ask your eye
doctor or the lens manufacturer to raise the starting line to
accommodate computer use. This will also stop neck strain caused by
the slight movement of up and down to align the bifocal line so that
you can read the screen. Bless the doctor who told me about this.
This adjustment removed the neck pain since.
Don't slouch. Frequently it is easy to lower shoulders and neck.
This occurs most often when the monitor is not at the ideal position
-- eye level. This also adds tension to the neck and shoulders
resulting in muscle cramping. If you tilt the screen up, at a higher
angle, where the screen’s center points toward your nose, you will
reduce tension and cramping.
Pace
We tend to assume that our reading pace remains the same for Net
browsing and for e-Learning. Not true. e-Learning requires the same
flexibility as if you are reading a book. The pace depends on
reading skills, type of material, and the quality of its
presentation. Allow your pace to change depending on the
information. Let go of comparing how long it takes when you read it
in printed form vs. online form. Allow flexibility in study time
until you learn to gage the material with your own level.
Questions
Allow your inquisitiveness to be open while studying. Record
questions that appear within your thoughts. A great way to expand or
answer the question is to write the question on the top of a blank
page. Set a timer for 7 to 10 minutes and write fast anything that
shows up. At the end of the writing, write a summary sentence or two
of what you wrote.
Did your free write answer the question? If not, you may want to
continue through a few more timed exercises. Or let it go for the
moment, return to your studying, and add it to your research list.
Free writing is always a great way to access deeper meaning being
stored in your subconscious.
The most important key to any type of learning is to find your own
rhythm and stride and have fun with the whole process. Retention is
best absorbed while relaxed, open and curious.
