Home Is the Best School

It is true to say that the home is the basis of learning and education. Family members are the first school mates of children and parents are the real role models for them. It is well said "A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it". Home is merely the school for giving moral education and parents are the first teachers. The maximum contribution in our achievement is from the home only. Prior to the preschool, the child's education starts in the family. The school teachers cannot be in such close touch with students, as can parents with their own children. The child learns from their family what is right and what is wrong. The behaviour of the family members towards the other have a great impact on children. It is the home where character of the child is build. Personality development, values and mannerism is taught to the child in family only. The values of life makes a person which teaches the young one to be loving, truthful, honest, caring, humble, courteous and responsible person. The curriculum of the home education is different from what has been written in the books.

Parents teach the child by warning, example and punishment. Our society is facing unnumbered problems. Parents need to spend a lot of time with children to develop overall personality in them. They have to be role models for them and must keep all them away from family problems. Even the family disparities and disputes influence the behaviour of the child. The restlessness in youth now a days and increase in the of crime is the result of lack of improper upbringing of children.Discussing household matters in front of the child, shouting with others can make the child more aggressive.

The security and the comfort which is available at the home are incomparable with the school. Along with the school subjects, it is the experience of the elders that shows us the right path of the success. Parents have more quality time to train and influence their children and there is opportunity for each child to develop individual attention and the instruction. Home provides a good environment for development of confidence and independent thinking and there is enhanced communication between all age groups due to diversified learning environment. This is the reason for "East or West Home is the Best". The home education can only help to bring peace in the world.

Beatles and The Bard For Tutors

Good writing and great writing - like good teaching and great teaching - are separated by subtle nuances that may not be immediately discernible to many people. Recently, a 10th grade client of mine had a great assignment for their poetry unit: to select a favorite Beatles' song and mark the scansion, in a fashion similar to typical instruction with Shakespearean sonnets. She has always loved the Beatles, as so many of us do. But why?

For those of you unfamiliar with concept of meter, scansion basically entails marking concave lines for unstressed syllables and vertical lines for stressed ones. English teachers often illuminate Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter by taking lines of blank verse from his writing and marking them. Notice in this famous line how the pattern of unstressed/stressed repeats in five "iambs" - or metrical feet:

But hark! What light through yonder window breaks?

The sound resembles a rocking horse, or human heartbeat. The heartbeat of love, as Romeo falls for Juliet. Classic.

After my student selected Eleanor Rigby, we began to note Lennon and McCartney's excellent use of parallel anapests. Anapestic structure, as distinct from iambic (thump, thump) involves a metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word "seventeen". The subtle musicality - and the unspoken implications of these rhythms - arguably provides the basis for much of the song's appeal.

Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been...

Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Notice the effect of this rhythm - as if a wounded person is shuffling for two steps and then landing hard on the third. Anapestic rhythm denotes truncation, interruption, and instability.

Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear...

Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

When form echoes content, prosody (the study of rhythms and stresses in written and oral language) reaches new levels of impact.

Died in the church and was buried along with her name...

Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

I can almost see poor Eleanor shuffling her tired feet in that old country church, and imagine Father McKenzie limping away from the dismal cemetery. Shuffle-shuffle-plop. Brilliant!