Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn 20 Quotes From Children's Books Every Adult Should... Posted on July 7, 2014 It’s interesting how some of life’s greatest lessons can be found in children’s literature. And chances are that we did not realize this back when we were kids. Sometimes it’s only when we’re older that we learn to fully appreciate and understand the poignant words from our childhood entertainment. Here’s some of the best quotes from books we used to read. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Share the wisdom with your friends, everyone loves a good quote. (Source: Here's some of the best quotes from books we used to read.) Recommended for You The Difference Between ESL and EFL: Teaching English Differing Strategies For starters, an ESL classroom is far more likely to have students from many different countries, all with different native languages, whereas an EFL classroom isn’t. In this instance, the teacher needs to be prepared for different cultures and different linguistic mistakes along the way. A student from Korea, for example, is going to have different pronunciation mistakes from a student that comes from France. On the other hand, a classroom of EFL students will usually all be from the same country. Moreover, ESL students will also have a different reason for learning English. Students are usually more receptive to learning reading and writing and less concerned with speaking and listening, unless they work in an industry where they will communicate with other English speakers. As can been seen above, it’s important that a teacher knows the difference between ESL and EFL in order to change their strategy to better suit the needs of the students.
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The Birth of Big Bird This excerpt is taken from the chapter of The Tipping Point on the children’s shows Sesame Street and Blues Clues. As I explain in Chapter Three, both of those shows, started epidemics of learning among pre-schoolers by creating “sticky” programming–programming engineered in such a way that children were able to remember and understand what they saw on the screen. This particular passage is about a machine called the Distracter, which was developed in the Sesame Street pioneer Edward Palmer to test whether pre-schoolers were paying attention to what they were seeing. The most important thing that Palmer ever found out with the Distracter, though, came at the very beginning, before Sesame Street was even on the air. “It was the summer of 1969 and we were month and a half from air date,” Gerald Lesser, a psychologist at Harvard University who was one of the show’s founders, remembers. Lesser decided to defy the opinion of his scientific advisers.