Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Children and Education:Quotes


Powerful Quotes on Children and Education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra PoundWe worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

The quotes tickled me and reminded me of the simplicity children bring to life and the powerful effect they have on others.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Assesments


I feel the cognitive; emotional should be the first thing considered for a holistic assessment. The emotional well-being of a child directly affects the child’s ability to learn. The health and physical condition of the child should be the next area assessed. When a child is healthy and in good physical condition his cognitive abilities are heightened thus allowing him to perform better academically. Then a tool to measure the child understanding of information and how to convey that understanding is important.   Testing to decipher if the child is a visual or tactile learner is important. Trying to understand how the child learns help him and the instructor in evaluating properly his level of competency.

In what ways are school-age children assessed in other parts of the world? One school age assessment in the Us and in other countries is obesity which has become a large concern worldwide.  Sites below are good for things being assessed around the world.


Reference

Björn Kadesjö and Christopher Gillberg (2001). The Comorbidity of ADHD in the General Population of Swedish School-age Children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42 , pp 487-492 doi:10.1017/S0021963001007090

Vercruysse J, Behnke JM, Albonico M, Ame SM, Angebault C, et al. 2011 Assessment of the Anthelmintic Efficacy of Albendazole in School Children in Seven Countries Where Soil-Transmitted Helminths Are Endemic. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(3): e948. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000948