Topic 3: Life

Topic 4: Family

Topic 5: Success

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[[ EDUCATION ]]

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I) Quote of EDUCATION


1. A good teacher is like a candle. It consumes itself to light the way for others

2. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

3. Change is the end result of all true learning.

4. Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

5. Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough (Albert Einstein)

7. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever (Mahatma Gandhi)

8. The expert in anything was once a beginner.

9. The illiterate of the 20th century are those who cannot read and write. the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Bonus video dịch Quote của Topic 2: Education


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#Child

- A child miseducated is a child lost.
- The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.
- I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
- Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

#Education is ...

- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school (Albert Einstein)
- Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Education is the key to unlock the world a passport to freedom.
- Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self confidence.
- Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
- Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think (Albert Einstein)
- Education is not preparation for life. Education is life itself.

#Ken Robinson

- For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.
- Creativity is as important as literacy.
- Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
- Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability.
- Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
[T.E.D] How to escape education's death valley
[T.E.D] Do school kill creativity?

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II) Vocabulary

• Bachelor/ Master/ Ph.D

• Certification

• Curriculum
chương trình giảng dạy

• Drop out
bỏ học

• Graduation
tốt nghiệp

• Home schooling
học tập tại nhà

• Kindergarten
mẫu giáo

• Learn --- Study

• Pass/ Credit/ Distinction/ High distinction
điểm trung bình/ khá/ giỏi/ xuất sắc

• Plagiarism
đạo văn

• Post-graduate courses
nghiên cứu sinh

• Public school/ state school --- Private

• Research report
báo cáo khoa học

• Syllabus
đề cương bài giảng, đề cương khóa học

• Traditional class --- Online class

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III) Idioms

1. A young ox learns to plow from an older one
Không thầy đố mày làm nên

2. Observations is the best teacher
Trăm nghe không bằng mắt thấy

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IV) Fact

1. The students in China receive the most homework in the world. At an average, teenagers do a whopping 14 hours of homework in a week.

2. Iran is one country where girls and boys are educated separately till the time they reach college.

3. France has the shortest school year from August to June and also the longest school day.

4. World’s oldest school is in Canterbury, England. The King’s School, as it is named, was founded in 597 AD.

5. Conflict and natural disasters have disrupted the education of 75 million children.

6. Crime is strongly linked to illiteracy.

7. Kids in Finland do not start school until the age of 7, which is one of the oldest ages around the world to start school.

8. Kids in Japan are the most independent of the lot. They travel to school alone, clean their own classrooms and even carry lun.

9. In most developing countries, public school is not free. Teacher salaries and the cost of books and uniforms are all paid for by the students’ families.

10. Research shows that repeating kindergarten may be harmful. Holding back students from kindergarten does not benefit them socially or academically. Rather, it actually increases the chances they will drop out of school later.

11. Students are over 4 times more likely to drop out of school if they are unable to read proficiently by the 3rd grade.

12. Only the educated are free (Epictetus)

13. An American curriculum offers almost equal importance to mathematics, science, English, humanities, and other forms of the arts. A Japanese curriculum, on the other hand, specializes more in mathematics, science, and technology.

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V) Reference

1. Best books about Education
- Khuyến Học - Fukuzawa Yukichi
- Thiên Tài & Sự Giáo Dục Từ Sớm - Kimura Kyuichi
- Em phải đến Harvard học kinh tế
- Phương pháp giáo dục của con người Do Thái
- Sa mạc nở hoa
- Săn học bổng - Vương Quyên
- Chờ Đến Mẫu Giáo Thì Đã Muộn - Ibuka Masaru
- Nhật ký 300 ngày ở Harvard - Học để thay đổi thế giới

Why Finland? Many people say that the best schools to study in are in Finland. Additionally, Finland’s educational system is considered to be one of the most efficient in the world. The government of this country worked out a wellthought out curriculum. Besides that, Finnish educational system is constantly upgraded, that’s why politicians from all over the world visit this country to discover the secrets of its success. The Finnish government is going to make the biggest school reform ever and provide “teaching by topic” approach instead of the traditional one – “teaching by subject” The Finnish children study in a safe, relaxing and friendly atmosphere. In our opinion, this makes Finnish schools the best and the most effective

“Teaching by topic” instead of “teaching by subject” cũng là mong muốn, nguyện vọng cháy bỏng của mình

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