Why I hate school but love education

"Write down to the letter, half of which I would never remember and half of which I would forget straight after the exam"

I agree with the complete text of Suli Breaks: I think nowadays our school system force us to memorize a high number of informations of many different subjects, which often we only use in class in specific hours. That's why we memorize instead learn the content and forget it after making the exam. At the time, can we actually say that our education system educate us?? Are the most educated people these who have a higher memory level?? Is that fair??

I think to solve this education problems we need to propose other effective and dynamic methods like for example the Montessory School: it's been proved that they have a more desenvoluped capacity to learn things easier without don't doing exams.

The Buckingham Palace

The Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's sovereings since 1837. Today it's the administrative headquarter of the Bitish Monarchy. It's located in the City of the Westminister and it's often the centre of the state occasions and royal hospitality, used by the many official events and receptions held by The Queen. The State Rooms at Buckinham Palace are open to visitors every year. There are 775 rooms, including 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. The building is 108 metres long across the front, 120 metres deep(including the central quadrangle) and 24 metres high. The State Rooms are used regularly by The Queen and members the Royal Garden Parties for official and State entertaining.

The Throne Room was sometimes used during Queen Victoria's reign for Court gatherings or as a second dancing room, with a proscenium arch supported by a pair of figures of "victory" holding garlands above the "chairs of state"

The Buckingham Palace(built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703) is furnished and decorated with priceless works of art forming part of the Royal Collection, what nowadays is one of the major art collections in the world. It acquired its present appareance following a remodelling in 1913 by Aston Webb.

True Heroes

Today I will share this beautiful project with you: True Heroes, a book with phantasy photographs and stories written by best-selling authors like Shannon Hale and Brandon Mull. This project is strated by a Salt Lake City lawyer-turned-photographer named Jonathan Díaz.

His book contains the stories of 21 pediatric cancer young patients who were photographed posing for make true their dreams: from a pirate and a mermaid to batman. Diaz is amazed of the childre'ns optimism: "In spite of them fighting a painful disease that is hard to their young bodies, they're so full of hope. And I wanted to share that hope throught their fantasies."

He started his photograph career when his mother gave him a Nikon camera for Christmas 2011. Then he take classes about exposure and lightening, and when he went home, he set up a tripod in the basement and strated taking pictures of his kids(4). Pretty soon, he was photoshopping pictures.

With donations from the public and corporate sponsors, he elaborated sets and costumes for children with cancer, so they could live their phantasy for a day. "The kids want to be princesses, they want to be soccer heores, fairies and firemen", he says. "To see them smiling and laughing at the photo shoots makes it all worthwhile. I love that they're able to forget their worries for a while and live out their dreams."

You can buy the book at Amazon for 14 pounds.

Turkey's first lady praises Ottoman harem

Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkey's president, spoke in a speech to mark International Women's Day at an official event in Ankara and described the harem of the Ottoman era as an "educational establishment that prepared women for life". At Istanbul's Topkapi Palace had a harem the sultans who ruled the Ottoman empire. There lived the wives of the sultans and the female family members and concubines. Male staff were eunuchs.

Concubines kept in the harem receive training and were well fed: they were not all used for sex, but they weren't free to leave the palace if they wanted.

Some Turks criticise the first lady's comments on social media, specially on Twitter:

@GaziCaglar tweeted "Receiving education in harem doesn't make it a school. This is nonsense. There would have been about 400 concubines in the sultan's harem."

@anlam75 asked: "If the Ottoman was a scholarly institution then why were the men who worked there castrated?"

@kizmonot tweeted: "Those who mention harem do not send their daughters to anything less than American universities."

NEW WORDS:

*harem

*Ottoman

*eunuchs

PERSONAL COMMENT:

I didn't know this institution called harem, but then it is likd thd tweeters say, I'm totally against this "education" method and agree with the opinion of most of the tweets that criticise it. I don't understand the first lady of Turkey, how can she aprove this? It's male chauvinist.

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India migrant heads home after $150,000 Kerala lotery win

The Kerala lottery jackpot of the 10m rupee prize($150,00 - 106,000pounds) has been won by a West Bengal man called Mofijul Rahima Sheikh(22years) one day after arriving home.

He bought the ticket in Kozhikode city with the 50 rupees he earned from his first day at the work at a construction site where he has been handpicked the next day of his return to the city. Three days later, after discovering his win, the man sought protection at a police station spending there two days(until banks reopened) fearful that someone would steal his ticket. A local police official UK Shahjahan said: "He told me he purchased the ticket out of sympathy for the physically-challenged seller".

The lottery winner is married and has an eight-month-old daughter and wants to built a house. Now his relatives were reportedly planning a big reception in his village in Bardhaman district.

West Bengal workers replace thousands of people in Kerala who migrte to oil-rich countries to earn more than double the average salary.

NEW WORDS:

*sought

*fearful

*average

PERSONAL COMMENT:

I will win the lotery too!! :( He has got very good luck, but he deserves it more than much other who also win it. I hope he invests good that money and doesn't waste it.

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Amazon uses schock tactic to stop thefts at warehouses

Amazon started screening videclips in some of its US-based warehouses showing employees represented by silhouettes that are accused of stealing were caught and fired. Experts were surprised by this measure.

Bloomberg said he based his article on interviews with 11 of Amazon's current workers and security staff. One of them called this videos like "offensive": These videos show former colleagues being caught stealing things(or)changing the addresses on packages as they leave the fulfilment centre, and even some of them with the word arrested stamped on the silhouette", reported Cory Johnson. "It's a problem that Amazon is of course very concerned about, but their tactics to try to get people not to steal are reaching new heights".

The news agency said that this horrible clips are shown in flatscreen TVs in the warehouses, which are also used to display information about firings tied to workplace violence, as well as more positive announcements. In warehouses not fitted with screens, the information about sackings are taped to the walls.

Amazon is triying to deploy humans with robots in its warehouses. This robots can move goods about and carry out other simple tasks. They also experimenting with using drones to make deliveries.

NEW WORDS:

*fulfiment

*heights

*sacking

PERSONAL COMMENT:

I didn't knew that this happen, but I understand Amazon in the sense that they must use new measures to try to control the stealing in their warehouses. When they start with this method, it's because they have tried with others before that didn't work, so we can't criticize Amazon if we don't know what happens before. If I order a product on this website, I wold like to feel secure.

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Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case

An extremely rare case is ocurred: fraternal twins have borned with two different fathers(their DNA looked different). This ocurrence is known as heteropaternal superfecundation and happens when a woman produces multiple eggs in one ovulation period and they are fertilised by two different men in a short period of time.

There are only 10 known same cases. It could be other cases but the parents were not to aware of it or didn't want to say it. Vietnamese news began reporting on the case because relatives had noticed that the twins looked markedly different. The last case was in 2015 involving twin girls in New Jersey. It's the third known case to ever occur in the US.

NEW WORDS:
*aware
*relatives
*markedly

PERSONAL COMMENT:
I'm very surprised. I didn't know this can happen!! It's very strange. However, I think there are many more cases but parents(specially women) don't want to annunce this because it involves have sexual relations with two men in a short time.

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Boris Nemtsov murder: tens of thousands march in Moscow

Thousands of people have marched throught central Moscow with portraits of Boris Nemtsov and banners saying "I am not afraid". He had been due to lead an opposition march on Sunday,  but the Kremlin is accused by Mr Nemtsov's allies from shot him dead. Putin refuse this teory.

Many people marched also in St Petersburg and they carried with the national flag and flowers in the scene of the killing, piled with tributes. A few persons hold the Ukranian flag. Some placards read: "He died for the future of Russia" and "They were afraid of you, Boris".

Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician, told that "it has been a political murder aimed at frightening the..part of the population that supported Nemstov and did not agree with the government. I hope we won't get scared".

Gennady Gudkov told: "If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict".

Pro-Kremlin activits from the group Anti.Maidan said they would not disrupt the march.

NEW WORDS:

*Kremlin

*allies

*carried

PERSONAL COMMENT:

I think we are in the XXI's century and there it isn't acceptable that people die because of politician reasons. The solidarity from the russians with the march(where the most probably were people that doesn't agree with Netslov's thoughts) evidence that the people of the world can fight against violence.

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