Featured Rule of Thumb                 Surprise Me! 2199 Education TIMING YOUR LESSONS The most successful teaching lessons last 22 minutes, the exact length of the average TV sit-com. Steven M. Keisman, New York City high school resource coordinator Current Rating: 5 out of 10 based on 17 reviews Comments (0) You must login to Rate.

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5142 Miscellaneous
DIGNITY VS RESPECT
All people should be treated with dignity. Respect is different. It has to be earned.
C, Trussville, AL
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5141 Music
PROBLEM SOLVING IN MUSIC
To master difficult spots in music, change whatever you have to in a passage to make it easily playable (tempo, dynamics, articulation, register, etc.) and then gradually change it back until you eventually arrive at the original version.
Jeffrey Agrell, music teacher, Coralville, IA, USA
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5140 Politics
POLITICAL PERSUASIONS ON THE INTERNET
The reason why liberal ideas are more popular on the internet and conservative ideas get more scorn, is because there are more liberals than conservatives surfing and commenting on the internet. Prediction: this rule will be low-voted by people who want to deny it. Some may even claim to be conservatives but are actually lying liberals. So it goes on the internet.
C, Trussville, AL
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5139 Safety
TO STAY AWAKE WHILE DRIVING
Chew gum steadily if you are driving at night or while fatigued. The ongoing sensations from the sensitive mouth and tongue receptors will make it almost impossible to fall asleep. (Discovered by the physiologist Dr Andrew Ivy).
Leo Standing, Psychology professor, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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CONSERVATIVE BELIEF
Conservatives think liberals' ideas are bad ideas, and that we should stick closely with the traditional ways that made America great.
C, Trussville, AL
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LIBERALS ARE SMART
Liberals think average people are not smart enough to realize that liberal ideas are very good ideas. They feel they are enlightened and average people are not.
C, Trussville, AL
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5135 Music
LEARNING A NEW PIECE
Look for patterns. Master the patterns first, and then add on the variations. This works for single passages as well as recurring themes.
Dawn Reyes, Writer, Baltimore, MD, US
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5134 Education
THE 10-90 RULE FOR TEACHING
Effective teaching is 10 percent content and 90 percent theater.
David J. Smith, Author, N. Vancouver, BC, Canada
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