— these private schools are the opposite of the state schools: in state schools parents are honeying, fawning the teachers, while in private schools they demand both from them and the management.
#education #capitalism #school #talk #yerevan
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it is an old paper and I like it a lot.
A Comparison of Ada and Pascal in an Introductory Computer Science Course http://www.sigada.org/conf/sa98/papers/murtagh.pdf
#ada #pascal #programming #teaching #education #computer_science #paper
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“The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper,” Stigler explains, “and one kid was just totally having trouble with it. His cube looked all cockeyed, so the teacher said to him, ‘Why don’t you go put yours on the board?’” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning
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Finding the Original Azerbaijan, or Aran
Ara Ghazarians talks to CivilNet about his English translation of Dr Enayatollah Reza’s book “Azerbaijan and Aran” that explains how political motivations, historic ties and and ethnic connections lie behind the use, or abuse, of the names Azerbaijan and Aran on two historic territories in the Caucasus and Iran — the Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKalUVotH_Y http://civilnet.am/ara-ghazarians-azerbaijan-and-or-aran/
#conflict #Azerbaijan #Aran #Caucasian-Albania #Iran #Armenia #Caucasus #history #geography #ethnography #archeology #translation #English #Enayatollah-Reza #Ara-Ghazarians #civilnet #azeri #azari #research #book #history-abuse #naming #politics #Turkey #expansionism #motives #absurdity #pan-turkism #fake #books #study #education
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I was able to attend educational expo yesterday. It was my first time I went to Mergelian institute. Eventually, I saw a Kochar’s sculpture. I think they could find a better place for her. There was a escalator in the building, but only one, for moving up. For other direction there was staircase.
Read the rest and see more photos.
#armenia #yerevan #photos #education #expo #robots #robotics #technologies #school #Ayb #Instigate #armtab #vostan #bzoz #Aygestan #Berdzor #Gugark #computing #computer #cnc #linux #reprap #3D-printing #linux-cnc #scratch #logo #exhibition
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The New York City group with the highest percentage of high school graduates isn’t Chinese or Indians; it’s Ukrainians (94.4%). But rarely are we treated to encomiums about the cultural superiority of the Borscht Mom.
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And culture is rarely either an unambiguously good force or an unambiguously bad one. Thus, Confucian values of education and family fealty certainly are one factor in explaining why Chinese students from low-income backgrounds do better than their peers. But as we’ve seen, that’s not the whole story. Meanwhile, many in China would like to see less conformity in their culture, believing that it inhibits much of the freethinking that powers creativity and innovation in America and that it results in a citizenry that passively tolerates suppression of dissent and censorship of the Internet.
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It’s not conformity that makes this country great; it’s an individual striking out against the expectations of his culture, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropping out of Harvard, Miles Davis coming out of heroin addiction to produce ‘Round About Midnight, the 14-year-old Billie Holiday turning the pain of her childhood into the bluest beauty, Sylvia Plath taking on death with pills and poetry, William S. Burroughs writing from the bowels of his addiction in Naked Lunch; it’s Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Cheever and Carver drinking and writing, writing and drinking through their demons. Imagine what American culture would be if American artists had kept a tight check on their impulses.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2163555,00.html
#conformity #freedom #democracy #culture #usa #india #ukraine #hemingway #fitzerald #cheever #carver #writing #education #suppression #censorship #china #freethinking