Single-sex schools

12 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / Child Development, CriticalThinking, Education and School Life, Private schools, single sex schools, Social and Emotional Skills, Young Children / By Lise Copeland

Society has changed so is this remnant from colonial days still serving us well? Elsewhere in society today, you find sex segregation only in ladies’ gyms and gentlemen’s clubs.

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Critical thinking in the age of Facebook and YouTube

5 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / Child Development, CriticalThinking, Education and School Life, Facebook, secondary school, Social and Emotional Skills, teenagers, YouTube / By Lise Copeland

the schism in tomorrow’s society will be between those who know how to access, assess and use the multitude of information becoming available and those who just drown in it and do not possess the critical thinking ability to use what’s available.

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Good personal values. Picture of bust of Gorgias

Good personal values – The objective of education

2 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / CriticalThinking, Education, Education and School Life, Schools, Social and Emotional Skills / By Lise Copeland

The excerpt is from the Greek sophist Gorgias who dwells on the qualities that make great men great in this funeral oration. I think it has something for us today.

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