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Equity is a word that says blacks are stupid. It's racist and segregationist. Any teacher promoting it should be jailed. Schools were created for education, not activism. Get politics out of schools.
Awarding admission based on ability and not race is going to be a nightmare for universities. Imagine when all of these capable kids realize what a shit education they're getting for their money!
Maybe school isn’t the environment that brings out an individual’s genius… The historical foundation of public schooling was meant to facilitate a habitat of conformity and obedience and not heterodox ways of doing or thinking.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎓 Dr. Stephen Krashen emphasizes the importance of making academic content freely accessible, advocating for open-source journals and websites. 03:00 📚 Dr. Krashen highlights that writing is not only about style but also a process that makes writers smarter and helps generate better ideas. 08:52 📝 The composing process involves four key elements: revision, flexible planning, rereading, and delaying editing. 18:27 🧠 Incubation is a crucial part of the writing process, allowing the subconscious mind to work on solutions during breaks. 21:58 💡 Poincaré's approach to creativity involves taking short, mindless breaks when encountering problems, allowing the mind to find solutions naturally. 24:16 📝 Don't rush your writing; deadlines can hinder productivity. Pretend deadlines don't exist to reduce anxiety and improve focus. 44:01 🧘♂️ Take your time with writing; rushing can lead to avoidance. Steady work over time is more effective. 46:37 📚 Write your own ideas before delving into extensive reading. It's easier to write when you know less, and reading should follow your initial thoughts. 48:29 📖 Read narrowly and strategically, focusing only on what's relevant to your current paper. You don't need to keep up with the entire literature. 49:38 📚 Reading without a problem-solving context results in poor memory retention. Remember things when they solve a problem for you. 50:03 📖 To remember what you read, ensure it relates to a problem you're trying to solve. 51:41 🏬 You remember details about places or topics you engage with personally and need to find solutions for. 54:24 🧠 Most breakthroughs in science come from secondary research and meta-analysis, not just primary research studies. 58:08 📊 Use existing data and published test scores to avoid overtesting subjects, especially children. 01:00:57 📻 Utilize unobtrusive measures, like checking radio dials or book wear and tear, to gain insights without direct testing. 01:05:20 📄 Write the central table of your paper first to clarify the study's structure. 01:07:46 ✍️ Write the results section before the introduction and focus on what the reader needs to know to frame the discussion. 01:09:35 📝 Don't worry about fitting your paper to a specific journal's format until you've finished writing. 01:10:40 📖 Everyone gets rejected in academia; rejection rates can be high. Rejection is not a reflection of the paper's quality. 01:12:58 🤝 Peer review can sometimes be arbitrary, with reviewers disagreeing. It's a common part of the academic publishing process. 01:14:10 📝 When your writing gets rejected, don't be discouraged. Even great papers faced rejection but eventually got published. 01:14:37 🖋️ Deal with rejection promptly, read criticisms right away, accept valid criticisms, reject irrelevant ones, and don't compromise your paper's integrity. 01:16:04 🧠 Good writers revise and edit, read what they've written, take breaks, maintain regular writing hours, and focus on their goals. 01:17:01 📚 Don't worry about your audience until your ideas are worked out; let the paper guide you to the appropriate journal. 01:20:00 🤔 Eminent thinkers often focus on outdated or unconventional topics, which may not align with the times. They are independent of prevailing trends. 01:21:36 🌟 Eminent thinkers consolidate past ideas into a cohesive synthesis and frequently look back at older research for insights. 01:23:13 📝 Dump writing tests, especially for language learners; they disrupt natural language acquisition. 01:34:03 🗣️ Using your first language to generate ideas and acquire background knowledge before writing in your second language can enhance comprehension and writing skills. 01:38:00 📚 To overcome self-confidence crises, find a compelling topic, write your opinion, then read about it. You may discover unique insights and a sense of responsibility to share them. 01:40:06 🧩 Students with learning disabilities may simply learn at a different pace; slow progress doesn't equate to inability to learn. The obsession with grade levels and standards can hinder education. 01:44:19 📝 For aspiring writers aiming to publish in English-language journals, native English speakers should help non-native colleagues refine their papers, recognizing the evolving nature of language. 01:47:06 📖 Receptive language acquisition through pleasure reading naturally transfers to productive language skills in writing and speaking. Keep reading and listening, and the knowledge will come to you. Made with HARPA AI
0:35 No. This method works even better with adults, but NOT when it is about Ethics. You cannot have a definition of ‘Good’ or ‘Truth’ that can be bent, contextualised, etc. If you do not have a proper, immutable definition/ conceptualisation of each Ethical value you end-up with nonsense. I will give you a simple, though tragic, example of moral confusion that stems directly from the poison of dialectics on top of other garbage the young generation is being fed. *The teacher in class* ‘You must not kill’. *A kid at the back raises his hand* ‘Miss, my Dad was killed by [the enemy]. It is bad to kill’. *starts to sob* *Another kid* ‘How many did your father kill? Do not kill means do not kill’. *The first kid stops crying and his face gleams with pride* ‘Many. Last time he came home on leave, he told me he had killed 100 enemies’. *He turns to the other kid and his face gets red with anger* ‘Are you saying that my Dad is not a hero, but a bad person?!’ Same with ‘truth’. When is it ‘useful’ and ‘appropriate’ to lie? What about ‘integrity’? How do you explain ‘integrity’ to kids if you don’t have an immutable, clear, apriori definition/ premise? No. No. And no, again. Forever ‘no’. Stop confusing people! To relativise what should not be contingent on anything as part of any curriculum is nothing short of a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. Just STOP it!
“Unknown exists side by side to known ,writing is a medium of expression for both but expressing unknown through writing is Art that is free & get imprisoned by following any rule & regulations.
Aero plane makes people fly who are not motivated to fly,android introduces its user to virtual world,sewing machine is user friendly,car is driven by any driver so any new language can be learnt with the best technique that needs to be invented.
The school I went to the longest often times didn’t want to nurture our questions. They often would discourage it. They just wanted to get through the lesson.
Krashen is great on language acquisition. But the idea that 10 novels by John Grisham is worth a year of law school is totally absurd, an intellectually, academically irresponsible and also a plainly foolish thing to say. I hope he's kidding. Equally so regarding the old cliche he repeats about fiction readers being "more empathetic." Despite any of the research on this, one need only look around to decide this point is hardly convincing: any novel reader is fully capable of being as selfish or as hypocritical as anyone (something more than once written about, ironically enough, in novels), but besides that it's not actually clear from the research whether readers are made more empathetic through reading or if *more empathetic people tend to be readers* -- a disqualifying flaw.
Only a bit more than 10 minutes in, but you have given me the proper terms for what I've hitherto found difficult to put into words: "acquisition" and "skill building". I am trying to learn the language of a country I have never visited and still have very little exposure to. I find the approach very frustrating, but it is exactly what you describe under "skill building": an explanation of the grammar then exercises/pair work before we have heard a good number of these sentences from a native speaker (repeatedly). In the past, I found listening to short, close to real life episodes ("at the dentist's", "at the hairdresser's", etc) from Danish language tapes very helpful. As they had a relaxation part at the beginning of each section, I loved listening to those beyond language learning and ended up wondering how some of the grammar and vocabulary had ever made it into my head as I was totally unoblivious to that. Needless to say that I greatly prefer this approach! Thank you for telling me how and way and giving me the terms for it!
Criticism with out providing a solution is immoral. He is incorrect. It is important to have well rounded people for many reasons; 1. It helps people get a long because they can understand different points of view and culture 2. Information crosses over to other disciplines 3. It helps people learn critical thinking and then they can think for themselves, 4. It makes people more creative, 5. It makes people more compassionate, 6. It moves progress along thru correction eliminating ignorance from happening and preventing ternary and a return to the ignorant violent dark ages, preventing hegemony. Specializing only applies to making money for most people, it advances disciplines and discovery, prevents homogeny.These are just a few reasons, there are many more reasons for finishing school. Most people ought to start specializing after Grade 12, some people will not and become General Contractors (blue coller) or Liberal Arts Degree (profession) It is important for a few people to be over seers and mediators, then things don’t get skewed into stupidity, it also saves costs, and lives. Being a generalist requires a higher IQ and is not the road that average people ought to take, those people should specialize, because of time and focus. This is the path for a majority of people. Steve Jobs is an example of specialization, Elon Musk is an example of broad based learning. Both have been called Genius. So, I am an example of correcting to much thinking in the box that males tend to get stuck in as I also am a broad based learner and under stand the reason for his Jewish perspective.😊
I respect that Krashen knows his subject about teaching and learning languages. When he went off on Trump and praised Obama, I was taken aback. Today we have a press that is incapable of criticizing politicians they support and viciously attacking the ones they do not support. Trump brought us closer to Isreal than any other president. Obama if not outright anti sematic was undoubtedly surrounded by such politicians. Obama, like Biden, made race relations worse. Now in the third Obama term, overseen by "Obama lite" Biden, the USA is rapidly exiting the world stage and heading for a nuclear WWIII.
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The best of the thoroughly mediocre. Language "acquisition" is the acquisition of rejection of language itself. Language"acquisition" is such a ridiculous, lazy method of bungling.
