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Every Kid Needs a Champion by Rita Pierson

10/31/2014

Great educators and teachers care about their students. They have a love for their students that transcends whether they like the person. Great teachers keep building, keep encouraging, keep motivating and keep believing - even when the student does not believe in themselves.

You can see why Christians and a Christian environment are necessary for teaching others. Because when teaching, you need faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.

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Escaping Education's Death Valley by Ken Robinson

10/31/2014

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The educational system in America needs a fresh wind from heaven to breath new life into a failing system. Turning students into learners and changing the climate of education to one that embraces the unique diversity of each individual is critical. Additionally, facilitating learning and curiosity becomes paramount in helping people be all they can be. Enjoy this inspiring video by Ken Robinson.

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John Amos Comenius

10/23/2014

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John Amos Comenius is considered the Father of Modern Education. As we desire to honor the fathers that have added so much to the world, we thought it fitting to honor Comenius.

As adapted from Moravian College (moravian.edu), "John Amos Comenius tried to improve the ways students were taught. His first success in this area was a beginning Latin textbook, Janua Linguarum Reserata ("The Gate of Languages Unlocked"), published in 1631. Much later in life, he showed that he still had the needs of beginners on his mind, producing the first-ever children's picture book, Orbis Pictus ("The World Illustrated"), published in 1658. Both these books became best-sellers, translated into every major European language and used by beginning learners for over a hundred years.

Comenius's most important work, however, was written between 1628 and 1632, first in Czech and then in Latin: the Didactica Magna, usually called in English The Great Didactic. Perhaps a more meaningful translation would be "The Whole Art of Teaching." It explored how people learn and how they should be taught from infancy through the university and beyond. Published in 1649, it was a radical work for its time. In an age when people believed that human beings were born naturally evil and that goodness and knowledge had to be beaten into them, Comenius believed that they were born with a natural craving for knowledge and goodness, and that schools beat it out of them.

Although he did not use the modern words (nor did the Victorian translator who made his work available in English), Comenius addressed such topics as

Education for everyone
Students' natural tendency to learn
Learning by easy stages
Financial aid
Career preparation
Extracurricular activities
Lifelong learning

It is thanks to him that educators today think these things are important."

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