Archive for August, 2009

“Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard” bit.ly/Drg9v # Never conflate being disliked for being yourself with being disliked for actually hurting people. # “most of the variation in individual achievement…has nothing to do with being smart.” bit.ly/Drg9v # “happily achieving today not achieving to be happy tomorrow.” bit.ly/8f4IO # “high levels of achievement require a...

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“foreign sounds paired with music will be…accessible for mental rehearsal and memorization” bit.ly/kME0a # “Music codes words with heavy emotional and contextual flags, evoking a realistic, meaningful, and cogent environment” bit.ly/kME0a # 自由イズフリーダム！ # ‘ “structure of the day” methodology seldom teaches what it intends’ bit.ly/kME0a # “we must pay attention to the reality that has always been there”...

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“foreign sounds paired with music will be…accessible for mental rehearsal and memorization” bit.ly/kME0a # “Music codes words with heavy emotional and contextual flags, evoking a realistic, meaningful, and cogent environment” bit.ly/kME0a # 自由イズフリーダム！ # ‘ “structure of the day” methodology seldom teaches what it intends’ bit.ly/kME0a # “we must pay attention to the reality that has always been there”...

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“Children pay close attention to subtle variations in tone and timing, which enables them to learn their language accent flawlessly” # ‘language teachers face institutional pressures to whitewash their classes in order to make them “serious,” ‘ bit.ly/kME0a # If you’ve got a goal that’s too hard to meet, don’t give up on yourself or on making goals —...

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兵は拙速を尊ぶ # It’s not unintellectual if it’s in Japanese! Celebrity gossip! abcdane.net/ Thanks, John Turpington! madtokyo.wordpress.com/ # There has to be something better we can do with TV than use it to show music videos and sell bottled drinks… # And there has to be something better we can do with music than use it to sing love songs…...

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