Virtual Classrooms and the Future of Education

Education is really a vital field, because every thing in the world relies on education. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work hard at their craft (a lot of them, anyway). But there are a few who seem to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could potentially feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. This was the first truly good 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 comprehend the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human facets of 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 in making an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once declared that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide the inspiration. Imagination usually takes you to the stars. Don’t our kids ought to get better?

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Melinda

February 19th, 2010 at 11:13 AM


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Federico Klebe

June 15th, 2010 at 4:01 AM


Education is really a vital field, because every thing in the world relies on education. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work hard at their craft (a lot of them, anyway). But there are a few who seem to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could potentially feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. This was the first truly good 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 comprehend the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human facets of 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 in making an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once declared that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide the inspiration. Imagination usually takes you to the stars. Don’t our kids ought to get better?