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8 Ways To Creativity If Schools Potentially Kill It (1)

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jul 28, 2009 | Learning Skills

About a month ago, I posted a video which discusses creativity in schools. The topic of the video was “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” This is part 1 of my thoughts on this topic. Homeschooling And Education Well often when we talk about our present education...

Brain Exercises To Improve Cognitive Functions

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 26, 2009 | Learning Skills

There are only two names that keep appearing in my head today, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. In an effort to avoid reading or watching anymore news on television about them, I browse for activities to keep busy doing other things. That is what our brain needs...

Child Learns In Silence #inspiremonday

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 22, 2009 | Learning Skills, Montessori

This is just how we started learning from our teachers and parents. We peer through the hands that feed us and watch how every single stroke of the word gets written on paper. In our very own mind, we create impressions of what eventually become the memory ready to be...

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

by Annie Cook | Jun 22, 2009 | Learning Skills

¿Matan las escuelas la creatividad? (subtitulada en español), listen to this speech to the end. “Women are better at multi-tasking….”

Changing Accents Do Not Help You Speak Clearer

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 15, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills

Is it always true that changing our accents will help improve our socio-cultural interactions in a multi-cultural world? That is not the case. All heads of states around the world will not be able to run their countries if they spend time worrying about their accent...

You Can Never Hate Your Mandarin: What Lee Kuan Yew Showed Me

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 9, 2009 | Chinese, Learning Skills, Personal Blog

Of all the languages in the world that is most talked about on the internet and least liked is Mandarin. It is so damn hard! It is greek to me! It is just impossible to remember how people can even remember a character let alone a stroke in the character! The ones who...