Education Links

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of the educated man. Norman Cousins

Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.--B. F. Skinner

The end and aim of all education is the development of character. Francis W. Parker

Training is anchored to the past. Education looks toward
the future. -- Nido Qubein

Passive leaning is an oxymoron; there is no such thing.
K. Patricia Cross

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.
Confucius

""The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ""apparently ordinary"" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.""
K. Patricia Cross

Passive leaning is an oxymoron; there is no such thing.
K. Patricia Cross

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble. Mark Twain

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. W. McKeachie

Teaching is the highest form of understanding. Aristotle

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.
Stephen Brookfield

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. Theodore Roszak

Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . Barbara Harrell Carson

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods."
Margaret Mead

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best. Edmund Burke

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors."
George Givot

Teachers affect eternity because they never know where their influence will stop.Mitch Albom

Good reading for teaching tips:
McKeachie's Teaching Tips (11th Edition by Wilbert J. McKeachie)
New Paradigms for College Teaching (by William Campbell and Karl Smith)

One day a teacher asked her students to list the
names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper,
leaving a space between each name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest
thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to
finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one
handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of
each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone
else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire
class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered.
"I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so
much." were most of the comments. No one ever mentioned those papers in class again.
She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their
parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose.
The students were happy with themselves and one another.
That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was
killed in Viet Nam and his
teacher attended the funeral of that special
student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He
looked so handsome, so mature.

The church was packed with his friends. One by one
those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was
the last one to bless the coffin. As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted
as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."
After the funeral, most of Mark's former
classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there,
obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.
"We want to show you something," his father said,
taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was
killed. We thought you might recognize it."
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two
worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and
refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's
classmates had said about him.
"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother
said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather
around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have
my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home." Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album." "I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my
diary."

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her
pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her
worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this
with me at all times, "Vicki said and without
batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists."

That's when the teacher finally sat down and
cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him
again. The density of people in society is so thick that
we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one
day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for,
that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
AND ONE WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THIS IS: Forward this
message on. If you do not send it, you will have, once again passed up
the wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful. If you've received this, it is because someone cares for you and it
means there is probably at least someone for whom
you care.
If you're "too busy" to take those few minutes
right now to forward this message on, would this be the VERY first time you
didn't do that little thing that would make a difference in your
relationships? The more people that you send this to, the better you'll be at reaching
out to those you care about.
Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into
the lives of others comes back into your own.
MAY YOUR DAY BE BLESSED AND AS SPECIAL AS YOU ARE.

Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade
final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original
document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in
Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

8th GRADE FINAL EXAM

Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, lay
and run
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you
understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels
of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50
cents/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for
tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to
carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for
incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per
meter?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around
which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U. S. History (Time, 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U. S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and
Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849,
1865.

Orthography (Time, one hour)

1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography,
etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals,
diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions
under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi,
dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non,
inter, mono, sup
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the
sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise,
blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain,
feign, vane, vain, vein, raze,
raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by
use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)

1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,
Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall & Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the
sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

Also notice that the exam took five hours to complete.
Gives the saying "she/he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new
meaning, doesn't it?

What happened to us???? It is kind of humbling, isn't it ??

[In the United States] teaching has become the responsibility of adjuncts nationwide who, by 2002, accounted for 43 percent of all university faculty. Source: Alice Daniel, in a review of the book, *Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education* published in the March, 2004, issue of ASEE Prism, Volume 13, Number 7.

There are two key philosophies when considering education and the style that will be most conducive to an effective learning outcome. These two philosophies are Pedagogy and Andragogy.
Pedagogy - The art and science of teaching children. This philosophy gives the instructor major responsibility for making decisions about learning content, method, and evaluation. This philosophy sees students as being passive recipients of directions and content.

Andragogy - Is an adult learning theory that is based on the assumptions that adults have the need to know why they are learning something; have a need to be self-directed; bring more work-related experiences into the learning situation; enter into a learning experience with a problem-centered approach and are motivated to learn.

The major difference between the two is the learner. Pedagogy assumes the learner has not yet built up enough experience in life for a self-learning continuum, whereas andragogy rests on the accumulated experience the learner brings into the classroom and thereby is able to make substantial contributions to the learning process.

http://www.infed.org/lifelonglearning/b-andra.htm

Trivia on Stanford & Harvard that I received on 8/26/07 cia email

Subject: Did you know.....

Did you know this story?

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. "We'd like to see the president," the man said softly. "He will be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We will wait," the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave," she said to him! He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple. The lady told him! , "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus." The president wasn't touched. He was shocked.

"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery." "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."

For a moment the lady was silent.

The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own? "Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California, where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes

I hope to keep this in mind whenever I start to judge.