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Some teachers seem to be good teachers, but they are not. their students have no special to find with them. They are not good teachers because they have no special , no special , no fight. They know their well. They have . Their courses are and taught.
, like Socrates. This kind of teacher is more interested in the subject being taught than in students or social . A good teacher is always to bring about a social structure in which people will be free to be themselves.
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The has probably changed people's way of life more than any other of the last century.More than ,television,air travel ,or even computers,automobiles have where people live and work , . Before there were cars,people generally on foot or by horse over
roads.Whether they lived in the city or the ,they rarely went farther than a few from home.They saw the same people and places year after year. The car opened up whole new worlds.
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People with cars could live father from their jobs,and so the age of commuting began.New suburbs sprang up around the cities.
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In early days no (医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell, however, was to become a doctor. The young American wrote again and again to a number of medical colleges, asking if she could be (录取), but each time the answer was NO. Then one day, to her surprise, she got a letter from the of a college in Geneva(日内瓦), which said YES.
. But later the important people of that college learned that Liza's application(申请)had the support of a famous doctor, and
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Summer Vacation is Too Long. Frederick M. Hess is the of studies at the American Enterprise Institute,which is a that conducts research on many . He says that a long summer vacation doesn't in today's world．Can American students take a summer vacation?In a summer
vacation, kids spend time sending messages, watching TV, playing video games and doing shopping in the mall.
．Summer vacation once made sense in the past when you didn't need an education to get a good job.
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Teaching penmanship
As you prepare to become school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of about the of teaching penmanship, the quality of one's handwriting. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and were the basic of elementary school education.
. That is, the neatness of a child's handwriting. Back then, penmanship was often taught as a from the first grade right up through the long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even .
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As a professor at a large American university, : "I'm only a 1050." The unlucky students are the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to whether they will be to the college or university of their choice, or even to get a at all.
The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus . It is obvious that , then a great amount of their is put in the number.
.The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a university, they fear that many of life's doors will remain closed.
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The History of Harvard University
Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all in the United States. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were Harvard. They were all started before the American Revolution made the thirteen into states. In the early years, these schools were .Only young men attended college. All the students studied the same and everyone Latin and Greek. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world.
.In 1782, Harvard started
Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard Law School. In 1825,
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Science's Lingua Franca
While many rural languages are going , new urban hybrid languages may help to . Hundreds of new forms of English have already been spawned around the world. Some are losing their as much communication—economic, cultural, and political—. "Swedish, like many European languages, is now more a of solidarity than one for science, university education, or European communication,"Scott Montgomery- a Seattle-based and author of The Chicago Guide to Communication Science—shows that English has as the preferred world language for science."Because of its scale and dynamism, science has become the and dynamic creator of new language in the world today.
, the lingua franca of scientific effort," Montgomery said.
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Instead of , teens are now on their Web logs, or . A study showed that one in five teens in America has a blog, and about twice as many read them. But some schools have prohibited (禁止) students from . Other schools have tried to prohibit teens from keeping online journals even at home.
They maintain that a ban on blogging violates (违反) their right to free speech.Blog critics say that kids don't know about and that it's imperative (必须的) to place limitations on students. They shouldn't post about themselves, .
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Encouragement and Praise-holic
For years we have been told that
But child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead to
Praise-holic kids who expect it at may become teens who seek to same kind of from friends when asked
The implication(含义) of saying "You are the prettiest girl in class,"or talking about the goals she succeeded but not her , is that you love her only
And this over to the classroom.
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The History of Harvard University
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Science's Lingua Franca
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Communication Science—
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