Paideia

Paideia, (Greek: “education,” or “learning”), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as gymnasticsgrammarrhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called humanitas in Latin, served as a model for Christian institutions of higher learning, such as the Christian school of Alexandria in Egypt, which offered theology as the culminating science of their curricula. The term was combined with enkyklios (“complete system,” or “circle”) to identify a large compendium of general education, hence “encyclopaedia.”

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TOP CRITERIA TO BE A GOOD TEACHER OR TUTOR (The 10C factors)
  1. A teacher/tutor must have a good Charisma to set a good example to the students.
  2. A teacher/tutor must be able to Communicate well and teach with great details to the students.
  3. A teacher/tutor must be Creative in order to ensure the lessons are interesting and fun.
  4. A teacher/tutor must have the ability to Convince the students to study hard, study smart and do well for the society.
  5. A teacher/tutor must show Confidence when teaching and sharing the knowledge with the students.
  6. A teacher/tutor must provide Continuity of effort to ensure excellent results for students to be successful in study and in life too.
  7. A teacher/tutor must show Care to students to help them to reduce their study stress and motivate them always.
  8. A teacher/tutor must stay Calm when faces with difficult students and to understand their needs.
  9. A teacher/tutor must be able to Contribute his/her time diligently and wisely to ensure students stay focus during lessons.
  10. A teacher/tutor must be able to Concentrate and focus all his/her effort to teach the students.

 

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Uncle Raymond Ralph Shong
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FAMOUS QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. 
Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
Sun-tzu

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities, 
It is best to win without fighting.
Sun-tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi 

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.
Sidney Goff 

Always behave like a duck–keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude 

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
King George V 

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp 

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell 

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop 

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Author: Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.
Author: Mother Teresa

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. – Sam Houston

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. – George Bernard Shaw

Be led by reason. – Greek Proverb

Only the educated are free. – Epictetus

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten , but they may start a winning game. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. – Albert Gyorgyi

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t. – Anatole France

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. – Albert Einstein

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin D’Israeli

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. – Frank Tyger

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. – Christopher Wren

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Author: Emily Bronte

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
Author: Helen Keller

Where there is love there is life
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right
Author: Henry Ford

Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. – Thomas B. Macaulay

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. – Robert Southey

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. – Voltaire

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt. – Antoinette Deshoulieres

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned. – Duke of Wellington

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Thomas Blount

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years’ time. – Marcel Proust.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Author: Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Author: Mother Teresa

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Author: Mother Teresa

Winning is not everything. It’s the only thing.
Author: Vince Lombardi

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Author: Plato

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. – Dr. John G. Hibben

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. – Ancient Indian Proverb

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei

Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self. – Jean Riboud

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.
Author: Mother Teresa

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love
Author: Mother Teresa

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion.
Thomas Jefferson

He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today. – Tyron Edwards

The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes when they do.
Malcolm Forbes

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. – Thomas Carlyle

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. – Jeremy Taylor

Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent. – Robert Bernstein

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy. – Marie Corelli

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. – Doris M. Smith

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles. – Benjamin Franklin

My Believe:

In this world no child is said not to be able to train,
As every child is sure to have a sensible and good brain.
No child is said to be blamed
For not able to complete in fame.
A mountain starts from a grain.
Little by little the child will gain.
Let’s start to prepare our children to gain
the knowledge they deserve for their future,
As god is there to provide for us in nature.

Yours truly
Raymond Ralph Shong
12 Feb 2008

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