Слайд 1LIVE AND LEARN
By Olga Gladkaya, Natasha Vysotskaya
and Ann Kalinovskaya
Слайд 2The aims of education
To develop understanding of other people/cultures;
To learn social
skills;
To develop critical thinking;
To become aware of how the past has affected the present;
To prepare for life in the workplace.
Слайд 3Quotations about education
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult
to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
Henry Peter
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant
“One`s work may be finished someday, but one`s education never.”
Alexandre Dumas
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”
Conrad Hall
Слайд 4“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”
Karl Kraus
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes
“ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Слайд 5Famous self-taught people
Robert Burns
Often referred to as Scotland’s National Bard, poet
and songwriter Robert Burns educated himself principally through reading.
Leonardo da Vinci
An Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor and writer was self-taught.
Alexander Graham Bell
Self-taught inventor of the telephone and telegraph. His college experience consisted only of attending a few lectures.
Bill Gates
If he’s not the most famous college dropout in American history, he is for sure the wealthiest. Bill Gates as if you didn’t know is co-founder of Microsoft and easily the richest man in the world.
Слайд 10Desirable competencies
To accomplish important things without delay
Self – discipline
Self-motivation
Useful
habits
Time management
Memory
Logical reasoning
Creative thinking and creativity
Goal setting and planning