Thomas Jefferson Education

TJEd Weekly Inspire

Published: Wed, 08/31/11

Daily Inspire! Japanese Mothers It was popular in the eighties and nineties to consider Japanese education the best in the world. This opinion has…

Published: Tue, 08/30/11

Daily Inspire! The Lesson "The lesson is plain. Children want to know how. Teaching helps to learn how when able people teach. But they must be…

Published: Mon, 08/29/11

Daily Inspire! Institutionalism vs. Inspirationalism "Any attempt to remake the entire educational system from the top down will fail, because top-…

Published: Fri, 08/26/11

Daily Inspire! Friday Poem Image Credit: Pamela Silin-Palmer, "Hold Fast to Your Dreams! Rabbits of the Rainbow" Hold Fast your dreams! Within your…

Published: Thu, 08/25/11

Daily Inspire! Pupil or Student? Pupil or Student? "Consequently, the whole aim of good teaching is to turn the young learner, by nature a little…

Published: Wed, 08/24/11

Daily Inspire! Remember "Life is about smiling." ~Oliver and Rachel DeMille, Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning, p. 156 Today is a perfect…

Published: Tue, 08/23/11

Daily Inspire! Guerrilla Mentoring "Teaching will not change; it is a hand-to-hand, face-to-face encounter." -Jacques Barzun We live in the…

Published: Mon, 08/22/11

Daily Inspire! A Quick History of Education Greece provides us with the history of two very different kinds of education, that of Athens versus…

Published: Fri, 08/19/11

Daily Inspire! Our Time! To be alive in such an age! With every year a lightning page Turned in the world's great wonder-book Whereon the leaning…

Published: Thu, 08/18/11

Daily Inspire! A Tragedy? "Mother and Child" by William Adolphe Bouguereau "The old saying assures us that when the world needs something great, God…