Showing posts with label Human Excellence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Excellence. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2017

Human Excellence-4: LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE JAPANESE

LESSONS  TO LEARN FROM THE JAPANESE


Some very good and interesting points Japanese children learn in schools and follow in life.

1 - Japanese children clean their schools every day for a quarter of an hour with teachers which has led to the emergence of a Japanese generation that is modest and keen on cleanliness.

2  Any Japanese citizen who has a dog must carry a special bags to pick up dog droppings. Hygiene and their eagerness to address cleanliness is part of Japanese ethics.

3 - The hygiene worker in Japan is called "health engineer" and can command salary of USD 5000 to 8000 per month, and a cleaner is subjected to written and oral tests!!

4 - Japan does not have any natural resources, and they are exposed to hundreds of earthquakes a year, but it did not prevent her from becoming the fourth largest economy in the world.

5 - Hiroshima returned to what it was, economically vibrant before the fall of the atomic bomb in just ten years.

6 - Japan prevents the use of mobiles in trains and restaurants.

7 – In Japan , students from the first to sixth primary years must learn ethics in dealing with people.

8 - The Japanese, even though they are one of the richest people in the world, do not have servants and the parents are responsible for the house and children.

9 - There is no examination from the first to the third primary level; because the goal of education is to instill concepts and character building, not just examination and indoctrination.

10 - If you go to a buffet restaurant in Japan you will notice people only eat as much as they need without any waste. No wasteful food.

11 - The rate of delayed trains in Japan is about 7 seconds per year!! They appreciate the value of time, very punctual to minutes and seconds

12 - Children brush their teeth after a meal at school; They maintain their health from an early age.

13 -  Students take half an hour to finish their meals to ensure right digestion. When asked about this concern, they said: These students are the future of Japan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

How To-13: How to Become an Excellent Student


from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Do you have a desire to become a successful student? Well, here's how you can accomplish it.

Steps

  1. Like all exceptionally great students, you must pay attention! When a teacher is giving a lesson, take notes and if you don't get something, raise your hand and ask. The more questions you ask, the smarter you'll get, believe it or not. By passing notes and talking to friends, you won't learn anything, so pay close attention!
  2. Review your notes when you have free time.
  3. Take some time to write some problems up, or you could ask someone to write them for you. Just remember, it doesn't hurt to go over what you have learned.
  4. Do your homework. Teachers give you homework for a reason. It is to review what you have learned that day. Take advantage of your free time. If you really want to be a successful student, you should know right from the beginning when you want to be great at anything, you have to put up with things that just don't seem fair. Doing your homework is not a big deal. Remember, homework can also help you develop good habits and attitudes.
  5. Be prepared. Bring everything you need with you to class. Books, folders, pens, pencils, homework, review sheets etc. whatever you need it would be a good idea to bring it.
  6. Get organized. Keep a folder for each subject, and yes, you put your math papers in your math folder, you put your Language Arts papers in your Language Arts folder, you put your science papers in your science folder, and so on. It would really be a good idea to color code or label your folders.
  7. Study. It would be a good idea to start studying a few days before a test. Make a study schedule. If an extracurricular activity gets in the way of your studying, tell the person in charge of that certain event, that you will not be able to attend that event, or you will have to leave early. However, there will be certain situations where you will have to attend whatever it is. In this kind of situation, you will just have to study another day. This is where your study schedule comes in. Write out a schedule of the week of your test and find your free time. Always remember, use your time wisely.
  8. Start to read a little more. If you are not already a reader, start at your level and work your way up. You may not know this, but by reading more challenging and difficult books, you are expanding your vocabulary.
  9. Ask a parent or older sibling to look over your notes and create a mini-test for you 3 days advance of your test. You should always want to study before the night of your test.
  10. Use of mind maps can be helpful for understanding hard topics.

Tips

  • Always go for extra credit even if you are getting a 98% in that certain class. You can always do better.
  • Stay focused. Everyone knows school can be boring, but you have got to concentrate on getting focused. Keep your eyes on the teacher, keep your ears open, and take notes. Taking notes will help you think and help you understand what is being taught more.
  • Sleep! Sleeping well is essential to keep you concentrated on classes and also on your studies.
  • Rewriting notes taken in class is helpful if taking exceptionally hard classes. (Ex. law, medicine, engineering etc.)
  • Lessons are fun if you pay attention and listen to what the teacher is saying, and if you know about that topic you will feel good, and if you don't know about it, maybe you should study it a little.
  • Find out your learning style (ex.visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) and look online to find out about study habits that match your learning style. You'll be surprised at how much easier it is! But be sure to answer the quiz questions truthfully.
  • Also, find out if you are a left brain or a right brain. Left brain is organized, logical, rational. Right brain is intuitive, lets feelings go, sees things in an abstract way. If you take a quiz and discover you are both, no worries! Lots of people are.
  • Study before sleeping (but don't stay up too late!). By doing this, you'll remember what you've studied the next morning. But if you study then watch TV or something like that, you'll forget almost everything.

Warnings

  • Whatever you do, do not procrastinate; don't put things off. If you do, you will have to rush on that certain project, and you probably won't get the grade you wanted in the first place. If you procrastinate for a test, you will have to review what you will be tested on in a short amount of time.
  • Don't freak out if you get a bad grade on a paper. Everyone (including high level students) get bad grades once in a while. It's not the end of the world. Just try harder next time.
  • Above all, don't cheat. Cheating doesn't teach you anything at all. Plus, if you get caught, you will get into serious trouble. It's not worth it!
  • Sometimes being an excellent student can lead to unpopularity or people thinking that you are weird. Do some sports or socialize once a while.
  • Be on top of your grades. If your school has online grades (Skyward) then check every other day. That way you aren't surprised when you get your progress report, and know if you forgot to turn something in, need to work on something or if a teacher entered a grade wrong.

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Some Aspects of Human Excellence

One can develop one's personality only through manifestation of human excellence by achieving the various divine dimensions of a person. Some of these dimensions are: Strength and Fearlessness, Self-confidence, Courage, Discrimination, Compassion, Concentration, Self-sacrifice.
-Swami Paramarthananda

Path to Human Excellence

Our youth has intelligence and energy. In our current education, they miss one important item of all true education, namely, character-building. A combination of knowledge and character alone can make path for Human Excellence. That character comes from the manifestation of the divinity always present in every human being and finds expression in the spirit of love and service of humanity, irrespective of caste and creed, gender and nationality. We have Indian character excellence, Western character excellence, and Chinese character excellence. But today we need a human character excellence.
- Swami Ranganathananda