Erasers to be banned?
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Erasers to be banned?
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Guy Claxton's latest thinking ...
Guy Claxton's latest thinking ...
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When I read it earlier I didn't read it as a serious piece of journalism.Life is about making mistakes and failures in some aspects of your life.Growing up is learning from your mistakes and learning how to deal with failure whatever the perspective.We should just erase the article.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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He also said that other countries have a clear idea of the type of pupil they want to turn out, but
That alone makes him worth listening to, though I have never come across the man before....In England we haven't a clue, so it all falls back on wretched exams, results and grades.
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He is the person behind 'Building Learning Power'
He is the person behind 'Building Learning Power'
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Oh.Guest55 wrote:http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/what_it_is.html
He is the person behind 'Building Learning Power'
Though a quick scan of that reveals the absence of keywords guaranteed to give me hives - excellence, fulfilling potential (or worse, exceeding it, as a teacher recently claimed to me he was trying to get children to do), outcomes, high-performing, world class, global race, targets..., there is still something a bit odd about it. Go on, G55, tell all.
They used to be called rubbers when I was at school. I see we have lost that one now.
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I think there might be concerns about American search engines picking that up?Amber wrote:They used to be called rubbers when I was at school. I see we have lost that one now.
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Maybe "Rubbers" really are the instruments of the devil!
Just analysing the title, erasers were invented around the 1770s to correct mistakes.Whereas the devil is the epitome of evil for the two main faiths of Christianity and Islam and has therefore been around for a couple of thousand years.
How do we get from evil to mistakes?
Are erasers really an instrument?
Just analysing the title, erasers were invented around the 1770s to correct mistakes.Whereas the devil is the epitome of evil for the two main faiths of Christianity and Islam and has therefore been around for a couple of thousand years.
How do we get from evil to mistakes?
Are erasers really an instrument?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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In the Guardian G2 today there is a short article on the changing of the name rubber to eraser.
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Can i borrow your rubber, Johnny?