Don’t you just love quotes? They seem so insightful-full of wisdom and advice. I like this quote from Thomas Edison because it is the honest truth. Of course work “isn’t play”, it is hard and always will be referred to as a durable load of effort. It will never be considered play because the enjoyment is forced. Work can most certainly be made interesting and some people are better at administering interesting work than others. Take the twelve monkey’s youbube production Prof Marsh displayed for the class. Not everyone wants to hear or discuss transitional paragraphs; it is more of an obligation. He made it interesting and fun to observe. We could have sat down for 30 minutes and discussed the set of rules that apply to transitional paragraphs, although he chose a different route, the interesting route. The word work to me seems tough and hard on the ears as opposed to play which springs words like amusing, pleasurable and enjoyable to mind. When it comes to work we want features of the latter words present to define it as interesting work. As soon as the work becomes interesting time sails effortlessly and before you know; the class has finished, the workday has concluded or the garden looks meticulous. Teachers have so many techniques to maintain the children’s attention. Something I have been subjected to before when I coached. Of course it is a hard feat to sustain one child’s attention never mind a group. However, it is possible but children tend to keep you on your feet when it comes to introducing entertaining innovative ideas. For me it is the scary feature involved within teaching if I ever decided to pursue a certain aspect of guiding or educating young ones. I would hate nothing more than to lose the interest of my students, to see the look of tedium and dreariness on their faces. Some people are genuinely disinterested in certain topics and
Education can definitely be interesting. My abnormal psychology class is by far extremely riveting. Only because I am genuinely interested in every aspect taught so far. Another factor attributing towards my enthusiasm for the class would be the key ingredient of the teacher. She is very awake, very alive and energetic in each class. Her personality reverberates throughout the classroom and this affects the rest of the class, encouraging us to get involved. That is the difference between this class and others because the teacher creates a connection between us and her as opposed to my history class were there is a definite clear line between the two. Some teachers have a knack for it and I believe it is an ingredient you cannot acquire through practicing. I believe it is something you are born with that manifests through our personalities. In a way it can be learned to a certain extent but it is obvious that some people are natural are certain things while others have to work hard, although it is not similar. Some teachers make you work hard, other teachers make work interesting. I know which one I would prefer.
I agree I like the quote as well. But even though I like the quote I disagree with it. Edison has the old school approach to education. I agree education is serious but I disagree with Edison when he says that it is not play. When Edison says "play" to me he is talking about education being serious. I think education was made less serious then we could learn more because we don’t have to worry about the constant reminder that education has to be serious and in order to learn you have to be serious. Some of the things that I have learned have stuck with me the best when my education was made less serious. I loved it when my English teacher would have us watch the Simpson’s in class. Yes we were watching a cartoon but we would have to give a certain amount of examples that the cartoon used to show similes or allusions. After we did that we would have to show how it was used. This would show that we could identify and explain these literary devices. Was us my teacher using the Simpson’s to educate her Simpson’s serious? Probably not. But it worked and it got the point across. So education doesn’t have to be serious all of the time. It can be made interesting and fun and we can learn. I think the world in general would be a lot better off if everything wasn’t so serious.
i honestly dont know how i feel about this one. i think that education shouldnt be based on having fun, but getting your life together, and learning a few things thats going to help you along the way. but why cant it be fun? i think there are many ways that education can be fun. and when i mean education i dont only mean what you learn in school. education is something you pick up from experiencing different things. being able to see and think up things outside the box. i think once you can do that, then you can learn to value education, and its more fun. the way i see it is, people take education as something thats a drag and that has to be done...but again...thats people not thinking outside the box.. i think learning is fun. i love learning new things...it helps me grow as a person. the more i learn, the more i appreciate, the more i ask why, and the more fun i have...
The quote speaks the truth. It may seem like a cold statement but the last sentence brings it all together. Can be drawn to a less "epic" quote such as "You work hard to play hard." People should understand the differences between the two so they can get their full thoughts into what they are trying to convey.
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Don’t you just love quotes? They seem so insightful-full of wisdom and advice. I like this quote from Thomas Edison because it is the honest truth. Of course work “isn’t play”, it is hard and always will be referred to as a durable load of effort. It will never be considered play because the enjoyment is forced. Work can most certainly be made interesting and some people are better at administering interesting work than others. Take the twelve monkey’s youbube production Prof Marsh displayed for the class. Not everyone wants to hear or discuss transitional paragraphs; it is more of an obligation. He made it interesting and fun to observe. We could have sat down for 30 minutes and discussed the set of rules that apply to transitional paragraphs, although he chose a different route, the interesting route. The word work to me seems tough and hard on the ears as opposed to play which springs words like amusing, pleasurable and enjoyable to mind. When it comes to work we want features of the latter words present to define it as interesting work. As soon as the work becomes interesting time sails effortlessly and before you know; the class has finished, the workday has concluded or the garden looks meticulous. Teachers have so many techniques to maintain the children’s attention. Something I have been subjected to before when I coached. Of course it is a hard feat to sustain one child’s attention never mind a group. However, it is possible but children tend to keep you on your feet when it comes to introducing entertaining innovative ideas. For me it is the scary feature involved within teaching if I ever decided to pursue a certain aspect of guiding or educating young ones. I would hate nothing more than to lose the interest of my students, to see the look of tedium and dreariness on their faces. Some people are genuinely disinterested in certain topics and
Education can definitely be interesting. My abnormal psychology class is by far extremely riveting. Only because I am genuinely interested in every aspect taught so far. Another factor attributing towards my enthusiasm for the class would be the key ingredient of the teacher. She is very awake, very alive and energetic in each class. Her personality reverberates throughout the classroom and this affects the rest of the class, encouraging us to get involved. That is the difference between this class and others because the teacher creates a connection between us and her as opposed to my history class were there is a definite clear line between the two. Some teachers have a knack for it and I believe it is an ingredient you cannot acquire through practicing. I believe it is something you are born with that manifests through our personalities. In a way it can be learned to a certain extent but it is obvious that some people are natural are certain things while others have to work hard, although it is not similar. Some teachers make you work hard, other teachers make work interesting. I know which one I would prefer.
I agree I like the quote as well. But even though I like the quote I disagree with it. Edison has the old school approach to education. I agree education is serious but I disagree with Edison when he says that it is not play. When Edison says "play" to me he is talking about education being serious. I think education was made less serious then we could learn more because we don’t have to worry about the constant reminder that education has to be serious and in order to learn you have to be serious.
Some of the things that I have learned have stuck with me the best when my education was made less serious. I loved it when my English teacher would have us watch the Simpson’s in class. Yes we were watching a cartoon but we would have to give a certain amount of examples that the cartoon used to show similes or allusions. After we did that we would have to show how it was used. This would show that we could identify and explain these literary devices.
Was us my teacher using the Simpson’s to educate her Simpson’s serious? Probably not. But it worked and it got the point across. So education doesn’t have to be serious all of the time. It can be made interesting and fun and we can learn. I think the world in general would be a lot better off if everything wasn’t so serious.
i honestly dont know how i feel about this one. i think that education shouldnt be based on having fun, but getting your life together, and learning a few things thats going to help you along the way. but why cant it be fun? i think there are many ways that education can be fun. and when i mean education i dont only mean what you learn in school. education is something you pick up from experiencing different things. being able to see and think up things outside the box. i think once you can do that, then you can learn to value education, and its more fun. the way i see it is, people take education as something thats a drag and that has to be done...but again...thats people not thinking outside the box..
i think learning is fun. i love learning new things...it helps me grow as a person. the more i learn, the more i appreciate, the more i ask why, and the more fun i have...
The quote speaks the truth. It may seem like a cold statement but the last sentence brings it all together. Can be drawn to a less "epic" quote such as "You work hard to play hard." People should understand the differences between the two so they can get their full thoughts into what they are trying to convey.
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