The Difference Between School and Life
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett
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English Papers and Trash Cans
“Some English papers are like trash cans- pretty on the outside, but filled with garbage.”
Continue reading →Talking While Other People Sleep
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” – Albert Camus
Continue reading →The Quiz for People Who Know Everything
There’s one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it? What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? Of all vegetables, only two can live … Continue reading →
Surviving Formal Education
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein
Continue reading →This is Science?
This is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students. It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the … Continue reading →
Valuable Lessons to Teach
“One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.” – Black Elk
Continue reading →Productive Failure or Unproductive Success?
“Uncommon Sense says that a productive failure is better than a non productive success. A productive failure is a failure that, upon analysis, teaches us something that can lead to future success. Non-productive success is success that we achieve but … Continue reading →
Knowing the Bible
“No man is uneducated who knows the Bible, and no one is wise who is ignorant of its teachings.” – Samuel Chadwick
Continue reading →Hear, See, Do
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
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