O/T but something for Mr @SeanT - official denial by Mr Carmichael that the Coalition is making any contingency planning for the event of a Yes vote. [Transcript of interview rather than comment, ,mostly]
As so often, I refer you to the White Paper - and note the failure of the London Government (or more precisely the Government in London) to cooperate when it would help clarify matters (eg. in asking the EU about Scottish membership). It's hard to plan when one partner is being deliberately obstructive, or in denial of a fair probability of reality.
You see, Mr. Brooke, its all the fault of the English that nobody on the Yes campaign seems to have a soddin' clue about currency, EU membership, NATO, projected iScotland finances etc. etc.. So, no more of your pointing out the bleedin' obvious, thank you very much. Just put on the sackcloth and ashes and lets have few more expressions of guilt.
Mr L they have a white paper. It has a great big wish list of all the things that will happen post Indy from a free Aurora Borealis in your bedroom every night to the end of poverty famine and war.
Or you could just recognise it as yet more spin and use it on the fire over winter. At least that way it would be of some use.
Now, now, Mr, B.. It doesn't matter what you and I think of The White Paper. Carnyx has made it quite clear that any gap between the contents of The White Paper and reality is entirely the fault of the English. So we must not carp of criticise and if you would shoulder your share of the guilt burden it would be helpful because my back is killing me this evening.
Now, now, I didn't say English. I said the Government in London. Not the same thing at all, at least in principle. And the point remains: to refuse information and simultaneously to crow about the consequences is not a mature policy.
to refuse information and simultaneously to crow about the consequences is not a mature policy.
ROFLMAO - so is it more mature when you pay a lawyer to refuse on your behalf ? Or does that make you the Dork of Edinburgh ?
On the 5 (plus) year olds in nappies thing - the report this morning suggested that it seems to be more of a problem re middle class families where both parents work. I'd say the same from my experience/what I've heard from primary colleagues.
"1975 – Comprehensive Values written by comprehensive head PE Daunt asserts that no school had a right to impose their expectations on pupil behaviour regardless of any “moral and social faults”. Instead children should be allowed the freedom express themselves as they saw fit."
IIRC this was a lot more fun at 15 than it was at 11.
"1954 – Informal ‘Look Say’ or whole word reading instruction overtakes didactic systematic phonics in primary schools"
There's a theory that some people see whole words as a picture and some don't.
I am involved in education at a postgraduate level, and so far as I can discern there are many successful teaching styles, and many unsuccessful ones. Mostly these are the same techniques just inappropriately applied. There are kinetic, visual and aural methods, and some subjects, teachers and learners suit each best. There is no one right way.
The challenge in a classroom is that what learning technique is best suited to one pupil is not likely to suit all.
Even at my level of highly intelligent and motivated learners self directed learning tends to fail. Students need direction, and it is our responsibility to provide it. Male students in particular are task-oriented and I think the modern trend to self directed learning favours women.
On the 5 (plus) year olds in nappies thing - the report this morning suggested that it seems to be more of a problem re middle class families where both parents work. I'd say the same from my experience/what I've heard from primary colleagues.
"1975 – Comprehensive Values written by comprehensive head PE Daunt asserts that no school had a right to impose their expectations on pupil behaviour regardless of any “moral and social faults”. Instead children should be allowed the freedom express themselves as they saw fit."
IIRC this was a lot more fun at 15 than it was at 11.
"1954 – Informal ‘Look Say’ or whole word reading instruction overtakes didactic systematic phonics in primary schools"
There's a theory that some people see whole words as a picture and some don't.
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ROFLMAO - so is it more mature when you pay a lawyer to refuse on your behalf ? Or does that make you the Dork of Edinburgh ?
"1975 – Comprehensive Values written by comprehensive head PE Daunt asserts that no school had a right to impose their expectations on pupil behaviour regardless of any “moral and social faults”. Instead children should be allowed the freedom express themselves as they saw fit."
IIRC this was a lot more fun at 15 than it was at 11.
"1954 – Informal ‘Look Say’ or whole word reading instruction overtakes didactic systematic phonics in primary schools"
There's a theory that some people see whole words as a picture and some don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_word_form_area
If true that switch would have been fine for those people - maybe even better than phonetics - but everyone who didn't have that would drown.
The challenge in a classroom is that what learning technique is best suited to one pupil is not likely to suit all.
Even at my level of highly intelligent and motivated learners self directed learning tends to fail. Students need direction, and it is our responsibility to provide it. Male students in particular are task-oriented and I think the modern trend to self directed learning favours women.