Cooking and World Peace
In the summer of 2007, I traveled to Turkey for ten days as a member of an International…
Students
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Questioning Techniques and Wait Time
Socrates is the first known philosopher to have used questioning in a systematic way with an ethical purpose…
YNU: Your Nature University
Today, many grade-school children do not know that milk comes from cows and eggs come from chickens. They…
Ability or Disability: An Unforgettable Experience at a Specialist School
Every human is precious with a special quality, and there are quite many of them at specialist schools.…
Advanced Placement Phenomenon
Two national news magazines, U.S. News and Newsweek, annually publish lists of America’s Best High Schools. While Newsweek…
Reward and Praise in Education: When, How and for What Purpose?
“Good grades pay off literally. Teachers have long said that success is its own reward. But these days,…
Gifted Education: A Dilemma
The education of gifted individuals has long been ignored, for several reasons. Some have argued that gifted individuals…
Character Education for Academic Achievement
This article explores whether character education has an impact on preventing school violence through the virtues that it…
Rocks or Rainbows: Lessons for Interreligious Dialogue
More than two decades ago, as a new professor at a small college, I was assigned a course…
Effective Use of Education as a Tool to Shape Attitudes: the Australian Experience
We often think of education in the context of a classroom environment, where one teaches and the others…
Fathers are special, too
1- Fathers are special, too Original Article: Mak, G.K. & Weiss, S., Nature Neuroscience 13, 753 (2010). Motherhood…
Critical Thinking
The Fountain Magazine recently published an interview with Nobel Laurate Ahmad Zewail, in which he answered a question…
Mathematics and the Universe
People have very different attitudes to mathematics. While some love it, some find it very difficult and some…
The Education of Gifted Children
Humans are created with different levels of ability. A person who is talented in one specific field may…
Understanding Today’s Schools with Chaos Theory
Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs…