As we all know, there has been nothing short of an all-out revolution in the way that languages are being learned since the onset of the internet and the advances in computer based educational software. The Transparent Language company and its products have helped in excess of one million people worldwide to learn a new [...]
If life weren’t tough enough anyway, the miserable fact is that job burnout is increasingly common in the contemporary, stress filled workplace. As teachers of English, I feel we’re prone to this more than just about any other group of professionals.
While some job stress can, naturally, be regarded as a normal occurrence, how can we [...]
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
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‘‘Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
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“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”
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Many teachers are convinced of the importance of reading in learning a language. Specifically they believe that a student can master words and grammar (and gain a rapidly more sophisticated “sense” of the language) through reading texts that are written at a level that the student can understand. Indeed, in order to ensure that students don’t get [...]
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
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Here’s a short anecdote to get the students thinking:
Mrs. Bianca comes to visit her son Anthony for dinner… who lives with a female roommate Maria…
During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t help but notice how pretty Anthony’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only [...]
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