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Coincidence? She didn't think so. One younger student, she said, had dutifully memorized the 10 "nonverbal communication skills" from our handout (vary your gaze, lean toward the patient, nod frequently, use hand gestures) and performed them all in rote sequence, prompting her concerned patient to ask, "Are you O.K., honey?" Another younger student, in a rush to get his patient's sexual history, asked her bluntly, "Do you have sex with men, women or both?" The grandmother of three, recovering from a heart condition, stared back dumbfounded...
Firstly, you barely need legs: a person in irons could win a parapara competition. A partner is superfluous, rhythm dispensible and improvisation antithetical. To excell at parapara demands a single skill, and one very prized in Japan: rote memory. You learn the hand motions for each song, in order. You can be a leader or, more likely, a follower. The moves are dictated by those magazines and parapara videos, which means that the dance going on in Kyushu is the same as that in Hokkaido. It sounds incredibly easy except for this final fact: there are 1,600 songs...
...interested in people learning a specific body of facts from rote. I'm more interested in that [students] are satisfied with the way they spent their time," he said...
Thanksgiving should remind us not just to thank, not just to express our most humble gratitude and then return to the rote and rhythm of our everyday lives. Instead, Thanksgiving should remind us to act. It should remind us that we owe thanks not only for the good will and fortune that have befallen us, but also, and more importantly, for the good deeds which others have blessed us with, for the selfless acts of kindness and love they have deliberately employed to enrich our lives. As such, Thanksgiving should compel us to reciprocate that selflessness, not only tomorrow...
...group Public Agenda, a full 82% agreed that states have been "careful and reasonable" in implementing new standards. Only 11 percent said their kids are taking too many standardized exams, 12 percent felt these tests unfairly difficult and 18 percent said schools are neglecting "real learning" in favor of rote test prep. The enthusiasm echoes a survey released last month by The Business Roundtable which found that 73 percent of parents favored statewide reading and math exams to determine which kids should be promoted from fourth to fifth grades; 65 percent supported high school exit exams...