http://bmecentral.net/2009/08/energy-education-trust-of-new-zealand-doctoral-scholarships-20092010-%e2%80%93-the-university-of-auckland/ Information about International Scholarship and College Scholarship Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:19:21 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://bmecentral.net/2009/08/energy-education-trust-of-new-zealand-doctoral-scholarships-20092010-%e2%80%93-the-university-of-auckland/comment-page-1/#comment-11963 Velma Troup Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:57:33 +0000 http://bmecentral.net/?p=121#comment-11963 Education is really a vital field, because everything in the world is determined by education. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers bust their tail at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are some who seem to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could potentially feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. This was the first really good thing I had heard from a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to comprehend the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human areas of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this book called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through a large number of printings all to create a super easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once testified that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can give you the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don't our children deserve better? Education is really a vital field, because everything in the world is determined by education. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers bust their tail at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are some who seem to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could potentially feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. This was the first really good thing I had heard from a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to comprehend the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human areas of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this book called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through a large number of printings all to create a super easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once testified that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can give you the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don’t our children deserve better?

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