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  2. Socratic questioning - Wikipedia

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    Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]

  3. List of centenarians (educators, school administrators ...

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    Chilean writer, professor and philologist [110] Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz: 1918–2018: 100: Brazilian sociologist [111] Sybil Plumlee: 1911–2012: 100: American teacher and police officer [112] Frank Popper: 1918–2020: 102: Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology, professor and author [113] [114] Norman Porteous ...

  4. We need to stop asking kids what they want to be when they ...

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    Rarely did my 18, 19, and 20-year-old students home in on their forever future at those ages. They simply didn't have the life experience, self-awareness, and maturity to make such a major decision.

  5. List of fictional professors - Wikipedia

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    Professor Hari Seldon Professor Dors Venabili Professor Yugo Amaryl: mathematics and psychohistory history mathematics and psychohistory: Frankenstein: Mary Shelley: Professor Krempe Professor Waldman: natural philosophy, science chemistry: Goosebumps series: R. L. Stine: Professor Eric Crane Professor Greenwell Professor Krupnik Professor Leo ...

  6. Are you asking your kids the wrong questions? Psychiatrist ...

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    Teach kids how to shake hands by showing them that “it’s a puzzle” to get your hands to fit together. Encourage kids to look someone in the eye long enough to tell what color their eyes are.

  7. List of people educated at Fettes College - Wikipedia

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    Charles McKean, author, journalist and professor emeritus of Scottish Architectural History at Dundee University. William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, ornithologist. Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Cecil Reddie, educationalist. Arthur David Ritchie, chemical physiologist and philosopher

  8. Theories of rhetoric and composition pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    The pedagogy of post-structuralism is marked by an attempt to redefine rhetoric as it relates to composition, drawing on post-modern ideology calling for new ideas in a modern world. For example, Victor Vitanza suggests that writing is an entity of its own, existing apart from institutions, social mores, and even writers.

  9. Little Professor - Wikipedia

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    The Little Professor was first released by Texas Instruments on June 13, 1976. [5] As the first electronic educational toy, [6] [7] the Little Professor is a common item on calculator collectors' lists. [8] In 1976, the Little Professor cost less than $20. More than 1 million units sold in 1977. [9]