"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
- Robert Frost
What is your view of the idea that "education" is something different from the information learned in school? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Freshmen Spelling list 1-10-11
Whether/Weather
Going to
Until
Separate
Receive
Because
Grateful
Have been
Have seen
Achievement
Going to
Until
Separate
Receive
Because
Grateful
Have been
Have seen
Achievement
Monday, January 3, 2011
"Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections - to exercise our imaginations. It follows, then, that the basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination."
- Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
"Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of existing elite and transmitting them to new members."
-Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1989
Assignment-
Should a college education focus on cultivating and encouraging the imagination of students or on teaching basic facts and standards so that we all share a certain amount of common knowledge? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on these issues. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
- Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
"Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of existing elite and transmitting them to new members."
-Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1989
Assignment-
Should a college education focus on cultivating and encouraging the imagination of students or on teaching basic facts and standards so that we all share a certain amount of common knowledge? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on these issues. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Vocab
untimely
not timely; not occurring at a suitable time or season; ill-timed
dissemble
to give a false or misleading appearance to OR to conceal one's true motives
commend
to speak well or praise OR recommend
consort
to accompany or wait upon OR to combine to make music
tempest
a violent windstorm, usually accompanied by rain OR a violent disturbance
dexterity
a skill n using one's hands or body OR skill in using the mind; cleverness
beguile
to influence through deception or mislead or to take away by cheating or deceiving
unseemly
inappropriate for time or place
procure
to obtain by care, effort, or the use of special means
villain
a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime
Friday, December 10, 2010
SAT Essay-
"It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark- and the torturous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax."
-Patricia Moyes, Down Among the Dead Men
Assignment: Do small events lead to catastrophes or are great events initiated by other causes? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
"It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark- and the torturous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax."
-Patricia Moyes, Down Among the Dead Men
Assignment: Do small events lead to catastrophes or are great events initiated by other causes? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.