by Dwayne Phillips The original Sunday School was a charitable effort to educate children of the poor in England in the 1700s. Given the state of government-funded education in America today, perhaps churches should go back to the original. I attended Sunday School as a child. In a way, I still attend Sunday School today. […]
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Is it Time to Bring Back Sunday Schools?
December 19th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Education
Blink-of-an-Eye Expertise
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips A blink-of-an-eye expert can walk into a situation and point to disastrous mistakes in the blink of an eye. My wife knows kitchens and what happens in kitchens. She can walk in a kitchen full of people cooking something, and if they are doing something wasteful, she can point to it immediately. […]
Tags: Adapting · Education · People · Thinking
Effective Teachers?
October 31st, 2011 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I suggest a method of measuring teacher effectiveness. The vast majority of methods for measuring teachers rests on a simple question: do we trust students? Bill Gates and his wife have been working towards improving education in America. I applaud their efforts as they could be using their billions of dollars to […]