At least when you’re making a leap or really starting something new. You can either accept the pain of the process or not. Not accepting it means avoiding it and not learning. If you accept the challenge choose to live with the pain and enjoy the process. Or choose to hate the pain and fight …
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How To Write A Story
This is a great guide to story writing from WikiHow: How to write a good story. Everyone has a story to tell. There are many factors that can inspire a good story. You need to make sure you are always keeping your audience intrigued and then you know you have a good story. Here are …
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Infographics – the world in a picture.
Excellent graphics from Princeton that pull together the drivers of major issues like the arms trade, government bureaucracy, transport, food, … (Note the date of the data.) INFOGRAPHICS eg: GLASS HALF EMPTY THE COMING WATER WARS
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More or less incarceration?
My vote is for less incarceration. Incarceration is incongruous wth a species that understands space and time and can destroy planets. Rehabilitation is appropriate. Spend less on belligerence and more on education and community infrastructure. The report Prison, Community Sentencing and Crime released by the think-tank Civitas says that less incarceration and more community service …
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Jaime Escalante inspirational educator.
“The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty” “Determination + Discipline + Hard Work = Way to Success” The California maths teacher who inspired the film Stand And Deliver, Jaime Escalante, has died aged 79. Escalante, a Bolivian immigrant, transformed a tough high school in Los Angeles by motivating …
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Nurture emotional intelligence at primary level
Further research has been released supporting the benefits of nurturing emotional intelligence rather than cognitive intelligence up till age six. This means that education should focus on games, music, art, social skills, teamwork, nature appreciation, experiential learning rather than maths, reading and writing which can be picked up gently rather than force feeding and entrance …
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Magnetricity demonstrated
The world of electro-magnetism appears to overlap the world of spirituality. We’ve know for a couple of centuries that electricity creates a magnetic field. Now researchers have demonstrated magnetic particles behaving like electricity to conduct a charge. It’s demonstrated at the atomic level and in very cold conditions so we’re not going to start lighting …
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Looking at the dawn of time.
A telescope sent far in to space to study the oldest light in the Universe has returned its first images. The Planck observatory is surveying radiation that first swept out across space just 380,000 years after the Big Bang (15,000,000,000 years ago). The light holds details about the age, contents and evolution of the cosmos. …
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Education – Kurt Hahn
From Kurt Hahn and the Aims of Education by Thomas James Kurt Hahn was suspicious of presumed excellence; he paid scant attention to the glories of unsurpassed individual performance, whether it be on the playing fields at Eton or the examination ordeal of the German gymnasium. He understood, as few educators have so well, the …
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