Sublime

‘In nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.’

Each class featured a lecture for the first hour and a half, followed by forty-five minutes of discussion, and then a half hour of show-and-tell,

In this approach, the teacher remains the authority in the class-room—providing orientation and maintaining equilibrium in the group. But the teacher is also practicing leadership—skillfully allowing enough disequilibrium (confusion, frustration, disappointment, conflict, and stress) to help the group move from unexamined assumptions about the prac

The survival skills and general information about life in the United States. The changing nature of society, with an emphasis on social changes in the root culture. The relations with other ethnic groups. The materials related to the current situation of the group in the United States. The future of the group in American society. The educational ma

for African-American students at a community college, being taught by an African-American instructor reduced class dropout rates by 6 percentage points and increased the fraction attaining a B or better by 13 percentage points. Similarly, using data from freshman (first-years) at the University of Toronto, Florian’s team has also shown that getting

digital natives and digital immigrants.

It’s the student–mentor relationship of enrollment and choice and care. If you had a chance to teach us, what would we learn? If you had a chance to learn, what would you like to be taught?

We even test students on their reading skills to make sure they are making progress in taking hold of these texts on their own.

My college professors served as wise academic mentors, but I needed spiritual support.