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		<title>What will my kids learn in your class?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I get this question I feel like I&#8217;m caught in a deja vu loop. How do I answer this question honestly? I think a lot of parents out there have a lot of presumptions about school and learning &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/what-will-my-kids-learn-in-your-class/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1322&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ESL in Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English holiday program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi guys, Just thought I&#8217;d share with you what we&#8217;ve got planned for this coming holidays. Every year we do something different and this year it&#8217;s going to be a focus on learning life lessons through introspection gleaned from literature. &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/1312/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1312&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Markets are Conversations.</title>
		<link>http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/markets-are-conversations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Context : the thoughts behind the blog.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future of Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great book. If you haven&#8217;t read it yet and you&#8217;re either a business or an advocacy group trying to engage people to create the change you want to see in this world &#8211; try it. When one &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/markets-are-conversations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1253&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Crazy Idea.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[convention on homeschooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s half past midnight and about 4 minutes before midnight another random, crazy idea of mine picked up momentum : organizing Malaysia&#8217;s, or perhaps, South-East Asia&#8217;s First Alternative Education (homeschooling, unschooling, deschooling) Convention. Why? Why not! Convention (meeting), a large &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/another-crazy-idea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Manglish Argument On School.</title>
		<link>http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/a-manglish-argument-about-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Danger School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents are already brain-washed. So they don't know that teachers and schools do things that harm their children. They scratch head when their children are depressed, unhappy and jump off building, runaway, have bad habits.  Your parents don't know that what your school teachers do to you is harmful for your intelligence, growth, happiness and future success. That is why they force you to go to school. 
However, more and more parents are becoming clever liao. (Like me!) So we take our children out of school and we detox them (unschooling) from the torture and harm that school does. Here's a list of complaints : (You can scroll down to the end for the Plain English version.) <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/a-manglish-argument-about-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1244&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We know Industrial Schooling is inferior but what are our choices?</title>
		<link>http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/we-know-industrial-schooling-is-inferior-but-what-are-our-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Danger School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to imagine myself as a parent who knows that the miseducation my child is now getting from school and college is not really going to serve them in the future and in fact could be harmful for their &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/we-know-industrial-schooling-is-inferior-but-what-are-our-choices/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1264&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a Parent Who Used To Be a Teacher Really Want to Say to Parents And Teachers.</title>
		<link>http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/what-a-parent-who-used-to-be-a-teacher-really-want-to-say-to-parents-and-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Some parents will make excuses regardless of the situation, and they are raising children who will grow into adults who turn toward excuses and do not create a strong work ethic."


Wait - you mean, Industrial Slaves? Hey teacher, the #1 reason why people stop having the drive to do something is because they don't know what the hell they're doing it for. <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/what-a-parent-who-used-to-be-a-teacher-really-want-to-say-to-parents-and-teachers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1230&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing the Paper Chase.</title>
		<link>http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/slowing-the-paper-chase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised when years down the road parents would come up to me and say, "Why didn't you tell us all this?" I did. I even culminated all the conversations you were willing to have with me in a blog. Two blogs.  The effect when all this does wash over would be akin to the feeling of missing out on putting a bet on a winning horse after the fact. <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/slowing-the-paper-chase/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1219&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The reason I was never cut out for English Literature.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in an open wood. I looked down one as far as I could and said, &#8220;Fuck it, no way&#8221;. and looked down the other as just as fair and said, &#8220;What the heck. If I don&#8217;t know &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/the-reason-i-was-never-cut-out-for-english-literature/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education and the Significance of Life &#8211; Jiddu Krishnamurthi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You need to understand 2 things : What your Education is REALLY meant to do for you and secondly, what is the significance of life? Put these two together and ensure that each does not contradict the other. Chapter 1 &#8230; <a href="http://englishforasians.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/education-and-the-significance-of-life-jiddu-krishnamurthi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishforasians.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9109220&amp;post=1214&amp;subd=englishforasians&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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