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To: Rambi who wrote (4630)5/7/2004 8:25:54 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 51758
 
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I feel better. My kids are always SO happy when they get me. I feel like I am selling me with the word games we play, and thus selling learning, by showing them it IS fun to be educated, and you CAN be really educated and still look like and be a normal person. It doesn't make you a freak. I think it's important to get that across in this society- because our movies and TV often denigrate intelligence and education (now there's a winning strategy- make fun of and ridicule the people best able to spot and fix your nations problems). At the moment the kids in my class are sort of fixated on IQ, so I went out to find them a test- and I saw that Britain had a national debate over IQ. Seems IQ is a better predictor of achievement than other metrics- so there was a suggestion that everyone in Britain should be tested. Interesting stuff.

One of the girls in my class just loved the book she read- it was The Arabian Nights. She said it was the best book she ever read. I gave it to her, because I said that a favorite book should be read over and over, and visited like a friend. I remember when I was in middle school I read Tom Sawyer, and The Dark Is Rising series, and Madeline L'Engle, more than once. It is in reading them over and over again that we absorb the patterns of the language and really take those patterns in. I think when you start to get into situations, and quotations from books just leap to mind, you know you've read thoroughly enough. That's not easy to get across to children whose parents may not read. They simply haven't had models for good reading.
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