January 20th
Everybody has faced with an enormous amount of information that overflows us every day. There has never been a time in the history of mankind with such abundance of news from all over the world. How do we deal with this kind of flood? Ignorance. We learnt to ignore any information that does not concern us or not interesting to us. Does it mean that the other part of information is not important? Of course not. We simply can not process everything that reaches our ear. Do students do the same? Absolutely. So why do we blame them if they can not remember what we used to speak about last week? Because we think that the information we give is very important and relevant to them. ....But let's think about ourselves. Do we remember only what concerns us and is relevant to our situation? Not exactly. ..Usually we remember things that make some impression on us. Today, at the time of information overflow, teachers should be not only facilitators of learning, but great orators if they expect to gain any attention of their students.