Socrates had a very unique, perhaps somewhat annoying (to some) way of teaching and learning. ... This question and answer method is known as Socratic Dialectic, which is also known as the Socratic Method. ... It is easy to think of people who sometimes use a modern version of the Socratic Method. ... The method could go on forever. ... Socratic Method is to show us that even though we thought that we knew something, we really didn't. ...

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He has won many awards for teaching, including the 1968 Danforth Foundation Harbison Award and the 1978 Notre Dame Sheedy Award. ... If one can understand his teachings and actively use them in life, one will be able to deal with suffering in a much healthier way. ... Dunne explains compassion through the teachings of Gotama or more commonly known as Buddha. ... Gotama's idea of compassion is when one can see both sides of the wheel at the same time to compare the two lives by a method he calls passing over. ... The other type of suffering is described when Dunne uses the teachings of Jes...

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Over the weekend, The High Point Men's lacrosse team took a trip to Jesse Wharton Elementary School in Greensboro, North Carolina to run a camp teaching young kids about lacrosse. ... I am grateful that I took the time out of my day to mentor and learn, to adapt and find out how kids learn and understand certain methods of teaching. ...

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Visual, verbal, and kinesthetic are different types of methods in which people learn. ... Based off my past experience, I have noticed that some of my teachers would limit their ways of teaching which made it hard to learn what was being taught. ... Educators should expand their ways of teaching in all ways so that all their students can fully take away the material they are teaching. ...

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K-W-L (What I Know, What I Want to Know, and What I Learned) is a teaching strategy developed by Donna Ogle (1986) used to encourage reading by first activating students" prior knowledge, then developing questions of interest to focus attention during reading, and finally reflecting on what was learned. ... This method is used by educators to activate high order thinking skill which will help students construct meaning from what they read and help them monitor their progress toward their goals. ...

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According to him, math in elementary school should impose less of the "drill-to-death" method. ... Math classes at that level begin to discourage that uninhibited curiosity by teaching students fixed steps to reach a specific solution. ...

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On the other hand, the authors differ on the methods used to uncover knowledge. ... Socrates says, "There is no such thing as teaching, only recollection."" ... While there is a similar theme of learning in both works, the authors differentiate between the methods used to uncover knowledge. ... In conclusion, Plato and Bransford both regard learning as a form of recollection that people develop, but they differ on the methods used to construct new knowledge. ...

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The good part is that Socrates never charges his student for listening to his teaching. All Socrates is interested in is teaching his student about his belief in reasoning about wisdom. ... On the other hand, Socrates taught about the new law before he was dead, but the students and friends were arguing with him and trying to persuade him to give up his teachings so that he will have a chance to survive. However, Socrates is not going to change his teaching method because he strongly believed in the Athenian society law is always right. ... For example, no one would blame him for teaching the ...

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He was teaching us to have good posture. ... The Walls Children were technically raised in a learning environment, whether it was Rose Mary teaching about art and the positives in each person, or Rex teaching about mathematics, physics, and astronomy. ... Rex and Rose Mary had very odd methods of raising their children. ...

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I am not sure how efficient self-directed learning would be in this situation as there are very specific instructions to the method of documentation that must be done. ... I would imagine that facilitation alone would not be an effective teaching method in this situation. ...

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The universe is full of mysteries. Knowledge and understanding of the universe is often attempted and seldom achieved. In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon argues that an attempt to understand the unknown is impossible. The author uses several themes in his novel in order to conclude his point. On Oedipa's quest for understanding, Pynchon incorporates the themes of a promise of hidden truth, the inability to understand, and the void in order to present his argument. ...

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