"In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills."

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Source : Source: www.scholastic.com

Lilian Katz

#Meaningful Quotes #Children Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”

Source : "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.
“I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.”
“Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.”
“Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.”

Source : "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.
“Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.”
“Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.”
“In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.”
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.”

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