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Quote about Failure
Teachers and parents talk about building resilience in children. What is it about the nature of failure that holds us captive in its misery? Maybe this quote fails as a quote. Nevertheless, here are my thoughts.
Stuff and Nonsense
How to leap tall buildings in a single bound
Superman has returned to the big screen this year in Superman: Man of Steel.
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Here is a little extract from a book I wrote for superkids who, obviously, are still learning their craft.
It was titled How to save the World Before Breakfast (Omnibus Books) with illustrations by Craig Smith. Here’s one lesson:
How to leap tall buildings in a single bound
The problem with leaping tall buildings in a single bound these days (See Superman TV Series Episode 1) is that tall buildings are so tall.
Addiction Quote
You’ll know Starbucks has bought your local hospital if ….
Be warned. US Private Equity are buying up hospitals in Australia. What does it mean? Try this: hospitals with no doctor on duty at night. If you have a heart attack, what do they do? Call an ambulance!
Meanwhile, Bain Capital, owner of Burger King, Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts, has bought a slice of the NHS via a blood Plasma company (Polly Toynbee, NHS Privatisation Gallops On 18 JUL 2013)
You should be on the alert for signs that that other US franchisees are moving in on your local hospital.
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Watch the hilarious Healer or Hustler video here.
Major Tom to course control, I’m floating in a most peculiar way
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Ed White Gemini 4 1965 NASA
….THE real threat to the survival of universities is not deregulation or funding issues, but the virtual campus with lecturers sitting at ground control and students getting lost in cyber space.
It’s 1969. I’m studying science-engineering at Melbourne University on a campus electrified by radicalised politics. The student union quadrangle has the excitement and clutter of an exotic bizarre awash with Hare Krishnas, rock bands, flute playing hippies,
badge wearing Trotskyites and more.
With 38 contact hours, I was blessed to attend university, despite being the only girl in my course (thus unable to skip too many classes), at a time when campus life was rich and academic standards demanding.
Fast forward 40 plus years, I’m walking across the university campus on my way to the Faculty of Engineering alumni dinner. A few students, talking on mobile phones and wearing shoulder bags, rush past me toward the street. It’s early evening and tumbleweeds could roll through the union building quadrangle. The union looks like any other cafe in Melbourne at that hour. Floors are being swept. Chairs stacked. It’s closing down. I can hear football players shouting as they train on the university oval, but otherwise the student union is dead.
You can read more of this Edited Extract from MeLand: 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes You Stupid, by Kerry Cue, Connor Court, $24.95, 2013 here:
The Australian 31 Jul 2013,
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Cult of me-first fails to meet children’s needs
Classroom
Downey’s Warren HS California
Two factors promote me-me attitudes in schools today: brand marketing and corporate culture.
Schools have whole-heartedly embraced the brand-marketing ethos. They have websites and glossy brochures picturing happy, rosy-cheeked children. They all have an enriching environment that nurtures personal excellence. Most claim to ‘‘provide for the individual student’’ or ‘‘address individual needs’’. This marketing spiel doesn’t simply mould parents’ expectations; it is changing the very nature of schools.
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You can read more of this Edited Extract from MeLand: 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes You Stupid, by Kerry Cue, Connor Court, $24.95, 2013 here:
The Age, 28 Jul 2013 Education
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Comment
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The Canberra Times, Comment
Yummy Mummy Birth Shock: OMG! Help! Someone! Anyone! Quick Photoshop My Baby
It is not enough that the pregnancy generates a nine month state of public hysteria or that the mum-to-be looks for the entire duration like a slim, tanned sex goddess with exposed baby-pod-belly or that she only eats organic mountain-grown root vegetables and plays Baby Mozart tracks to the baby bump, today a mum-to-be must also look ‘hot’ in the birth video and ‘paparazzi’ pics.
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This is an Edited Extract from MeLand: 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes You Stupid, by Kerry Cue, Connor Court, $24.95, 2013
Read more @ the real and wonderful The Mum’s Group blog run by busy mum of two Erin Giansiracusa based in Melbourne, Vic.
On Bright Kids
Edited Extract: MeLand: 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes You Stupid, by Kerry Cue, Connor Court, $24.95, 2013
In Schools
The following sentence comes from my daughter’s Grade 5 school
report noting her progress in a subject called technology: ‘This
semester Georgina has successfully role-played a light globe.’
I burst out laughing. How do you role-play a light globe? I imagine
Georgina crouched on the classroom floor until someone yelled out ‘Turn Georgina on’ and she leapt to her feet throwing her hands in the air. The truth is the report was a sham. Teachers did not have time to personalise reports so they wrote three computer-tagged versions equivalent to A, B or C grades in each subject. Every A-grade student like Georgina had successfully role-played a light globe. Of course, these were the A grade students, they’re all very bright.
100W, probably.
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