Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

claudiac_2

thanks again MG, I got it!

Triciaxx

thriftyscotslass wrote: »

Dd didn't learn these skills by doing the hours and hours of boring spelling and punctuation exercises that I had to when I was at school. Yes, my hand-writing was neat, I could spell and correctly punctuate a sentence but I couldn't turn my hand to the vast array of different writing styles that dd can fearlessly tackle.

So let's stop putting these kids and their teachers down, it is ignorant and disrespectful. Let's stop harking back to the "good old days" because iirc it wasn't all that.

Too d**n right it wasn't 'the good old days'. Many young people nowadays are incredibly well informed and have the confidence to use their talents.

My sig came from my 18 yr old DGD.

Butti

Triciaxx wrote: »

Too d**n right it wasn't 'the good old days'. Many young people nowadays are incredibly well informed and have the confidence to use their talents.

My sig came from my 18 yr old DGD.

I'm hoping having worked in development and regeneration and done a course in housing I will get a job in social housing development and will enjoy it. Your DGD is right, I won't know till I get into it but the combination of developing something physical and improving people's lives I'm hoping will do it for me.

My writing just gets worse the more typing I do in my life! I agree that creative skills have improved. The recognition of conditions like dyslexia also seems to have improved. And at least we are not making left handed people write with their right hand.

I remember a teacher complaining to my mother about my brother (now aged 47) and his writing angling down - he was left handed. My mother said 'Why don't you give him lined paper'. Similar to this other teacher (who I just have fond memories of!) who used to shout at me and not let me out for Friday play because I hadn't managed my times tables. I was responding by becoming reclusive and not eating on Thursday night. This teacher told my mother that this approach worked with the boys to which she said 'well clearly its not working with my daughter'.

Yes, they were very good at treating people as individuals in the good old days!

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Firewalker

How lively the 'discussion diary' is today. Splendid!

On education and the 'good old day's. I obviously do not have personal experience but my observation is that the quality of adduction goes through cycles - Little Boy who is ten is getting better education than his much older brothers (27 and 26) in the same school. Also the things people learn and become very good at are different (and this is how it should be). I was watching LB on a laptop and he is so intuitive with this technology; I am not bad but he gets it much faster.

University education is an interesting thing at the moment. Many academics secumb to the temptation to spoon feed students - because our assessment depends on the students (what they say not how much they achieve) they mistakenly try to please. I don't do that - I enable my students to learn and they are really apprehensive (intellectually) of me but end up achieving great things. Even more interestingly, I finally last year got involved in undergraduate teaching and have two small groups. One student who is very clever and able failed two exams; I called him in for a chat and what he said is that he is bored, he doesn't feel intellectually stimulated. So what we at universities will have to do now is to learn to provide a stellar product (education and learning environment) that enables people to achieve, not to perform for the sake of measurement.

Thrifty, my blog did not work for sometime because OH finally 'migrated' it to a different server. This means that it will work better, use later version of WordPress and soon can add a discussion forum where readers can initiate discussions. It is working now.

MG very good news about your student - celebrate; and thanks for the green lentils dishes.

It turned out to be a lovely sunny day here - so you cannot always say from the morning.

Firewalker

ani_26

Here is another viewpoint i'll throw into the melting pot. I could guarantee to you all, if you gave 100 people a questionnaire to complete, you would be lucky to receive one correctly completed. So why is that?

thriftyscotslass

Firewalker wrote: »

How lively the 'discussion diary' is today. Splendid!

Tee hee - thought you'd approve

Firewalker wrote: »

- I enable my students to learn and they are really apprehensive (intellectually) of me but end up achieving great things.

Thrifty, my blog did not work for sometime because OH finally 'migrated' it to a different server. This means that it will work better, use later version of WordPress and soon can add a discussion forum where readers can initiate discussions. It is working now.

I think it was claudiac who was having problems but I think she's all sorted now.

Funnily enough, I feel like your students when I read your blog - okay apprehensive, not really apprehensive. I just know that my thinking and beliefs are going to be stretched and challenged, so well done for kicking an old-ish brain into gear :rotfl:. The post that I am apprehensively waiting for, is the one that you are going to do on mortgages, I just know it is going to press all my buttons and take me out my comfort zone but I can take it, so bring it on :rotfl:

gilligansyle

The education system has changed lots over the years. My sister and I both got scholarships to grammar school and loved it. My brother was a victim of 'progressive' thinking, in the 60's. No spelling or grammar was ever corrected, it was about being creative with words. Which was fine, but he and his classmates suffered in secondary school when exams where marked externally.
My son, on the other hand, went to a really good nursery, where he was constantly stretched, and then found himself bored at primary school, where it was all about meeting targets, not about development of individuals. Consequently he couldn't leave school fast enough!
As FW says, these things go in phases.

NorthernLas

Ani - One of the only things I remember being taught was about using apostrophes in shortened words - the memory is strong because I think the english teacher used my work as an example of how to get it wrong. The rule is that you put the apostrophe where the letter should be that you have taken out.

So you are turns into you're, was not to wasn't, have not to haven't etc.

I do not remember ever being taught about similes and metaphors and had to ask my niece what they were when she was doing them at high school. For example, 'the road was a river of moolight' is one of them and I think it is a metaphor, but I'm not altogether sure...

Butti

NorthernLas wrote: »

I do not remember ever being taught about similes and metaphors and had to ask my niece what they were when she was doing them at high school. For example, 'the road was a river of moolight' is one of them and I think it is a metaphor, but I'm not altogether sure...

I too think it's a metaphor. A metaphor is another way of describing something that is not literal. Making a late decision for example 'shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted'.

I can remember that Carbonic Anhydrase is the enzyme that changes oxygen into a liquid form at the lung wall. My teacher waited 8 minutes for that answer. He was heavily into fear!

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greenbee

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Quite right green bee (although I got a first and I am not at all dull :rotfl:)

clearly you're a genius then

ani_26 wrote: »

Here is another viewpoint i'll throw into the melting pot. I could guarantee to you all, if you gave 100 people a questionnaire to complete, you would be lucky to receive one correctly completed. So why is that?

apathy. I have provided surveys to all the delegates at the recent seminar series I did, and in every one of 14 locations the response rate was abysmal. I suppose I should go through the attendance list and work out exactly how bad... At major conferences we offer [STRIKE]bribes[/STRIKE] incentives to complete the 10 minute surveys... And people often don't fill in feedback forms, which are what my boss uses to assess my performance!