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These theatre sites will generally allow you to search for offers based on different preferences for instance the show you want to go and watch, the date, performance, book-in date, quantity of nights, type of room, & even the method of travel. The search engines will show all the packages on sale that meet your requirements together with price information.

In general the size of the markdown will go up with the number of people that you want to include in the theatre package, since this allows the theatre company offering the theatre package to reduce more while still turning out some profit. Therefore, when you add rail travel in your deal you will be offered a lot better savings markdown.

Always check to see if the theatre company or internet site offers to better the prices of all its existing rivals. Undoubtedly this is a sure fire way of guaranteeing that you are getting hold of the best possible package from the many theatre packages on sale. You have to guarantee though that what you are looking at is equal in regards of benefits when assessing packages. For instance, only compare hotel and London theatre offers that involve the same shows, venues, and hotels, with the exact same options applied. For example, one London theatre package may well incorporate a buffet breakfast, while the other might perhaps include a continental dinner, at the same hotel. Different London theatre packages may perhaps appear alike whilst if truth beholds one may perhaps offer a liberal cancellation policy while the other does not.

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Prof. Roland Meighan of England has emphasized the fact that the word “education”
denotes “to be conditioned, to believe, to perform and to act in a given way.” He
suggests that “learning” is a radically different activity. Charles Hayes, a proponent
for autodidactism, suggests education is something given you , while Learning is
something you take. Ivan Illich in “Deschooling Society” illuminated the difference
and concluded that society would not improve as long a schooling brainwashed
students with the staus quo. Paulo Friere in “Education for the Oppressed” urged
the end of traditional schooling and the development of open minds. John Holt,
after a long life of trying to fix the schools, recognized that that was the wrong road
and proposed we “Teach Our Own.” Manish Jain of India promotes “unlearning,”
that is overriding the brainwashing of schools, and critical thinking. Even those who
are most involved with the education system recognize that education today doesn’t
fit today’s needs, but few move beyond the “fix the schools” syndrome. The issue of
the day is to think out of the box, and go to the roots of why we learn, how we
learn, when we learn and, a secondary concern, what we learn. We need to think in
terms of “learning” not “educating.”

This suggests that the mantra for every individual and every organization should be:
EVERY PERSON HAS THE FREEDOM, THE RIGHT, THE RESOURCES, AND THE
OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN WHAT THEY WANT. WHEN THEY WANT, AND HOW THEY
WANT.

This mantra demands a radical transformation of not only how we learn but of how
we live and of how we govern. It outlines a basic human right and a responsibility.
It does not give that right and responsibility to the government, to the parents, to
the churches, or to any other social entity. It is the right of every individual. It is
the responsibility of every social organization. Libraries, museum, parks, health
centers, farms, factories, churches, city halls, legislatures and every other
corporation and civil organization has the responsibility to provide learning
opportunities for ctiizens.

This is an expression of individual freedom. Every person is free to learn, and to
learn what freedom is by being free. It transforms teaching institution to learning
centers or learning communities. It transforms teachers and parents into mentors
used at the will of the learners. It creates a world of critical thinkers best able to
participate in world affairs. It transfers the money wasted in prison like schools, to
tax breaks for organizations providing learning opportunities selected by the
learners. It pus the hierarchy of individual, family, community, society, and world in
a more human oriented chain of command. It replaces self-interest, competition
and materialism with life-long learning as the purpose of life.

It gives the people of this forum a target to develop (or not).

I had intended to add some words of support to my opening statement. but I found
that Evely Lawrentce in her 1952 summary of what Frederick Froebel said in the
1979s so much better than Icould say it , that I add her piece below.
BE;

Freedom
the great Froebelian revolution
by Evelyn Lawrence 1952

In effect, what is essential, if we are to be capable of the freedom which on any
adequate social theory we need, is a philosophy of education for freedom from the
start. That is the great Froebelian revolution. Capacity for freedom is something
which, step by step, must be built up in us. It must represent a progressive and
cumulative achievement carried forward by growth itself. Education in freedom and
by freedom are essential for it, but they are simply means. The end is that education
from within, by the child’s many sided experience and activity continually integrated
into harmonious development, which will carry him into adulthood as fully master of
himself and an autonomous and responsible member of a free society.

Such an educational philosophy is then simply the carrying to completion of the
freely elected common philosophy of freedom which is our most urgent social need.
It no longer depends on any particular set of ultimate metaphysical beliefs (whether
Froebel’s or any other), but provides the fundamental platform on which the most
diverse ultimate beliefs, so long only as they are compatible with tolerance of one
another, can meet. And once we assume the shared value of freedom, we can
confine our concern, if we wish, to the pragmatic minimum of the contrast between
those conditions which will effectively safeguard it and those which, whatever
nominal homage we pay to it, leave it precarious and insecure. At the best, freedom
from coercion and interference in adult life comes, as we have said, too late; after
living through most of our formative period from infancy to adolescence under
conditions of coercion and interference, too few of us come out inwardly capable of
being free.

What is even more fatal perhaps than positive educational impositions from without
is the habitual disregard, in our conventional traditions of upbringing, of the
demands of inward integration and growth; the lack of access to wide ranges of
human experience; the lack of exercise in methods of judgement and decision; the
failure to provide equipment for freedom and choice. Those who have been left
through their plastic period to the fortuitous interplay of coercion and neglect,
disregard, privation and frustration, and every sort of unregulated force within and
without, will be only too apt to emerge at the mercy of every further strong current
they may meet. This is in fact demonstrated by the ease with which even the
external freedom that is one’s adult “birthright” is surrendered or lost under the play
of one or another form of propaganda or mass movement or mob appeal. That is
the soil in which power ideologies or creeds flourish, though in the end they may
destroy even !

most of those who embrace them.

However, the positive conditions of freedom amount to something very much larger
than any mere sum of avoidances of failures or mistakes. And the inspiration to a
philosophy of education for freedom lies for most of us deeper than the mere need
to make our freedom secure in later life, vital though that may be. Both this need
and those deeper demands are perhaps most satisfyingly met by Froebel’s own
fundamental principle: full respect for the integrity and individuality of every child.
That most searching of moralists, Immanual Kant saw the supreme ethical law in the
principle: treat every human being as an end in himself. But most if not all ethics is
pivoted on the so-called “moral subject”, either taken for granted or formally
declared to be the responsible adult. We may, I think, account it Froebel’s greatest
revolution that he extended and deepened and transformed this principle by
insisting that we must treat not merely every adult but every child as an end in
himself!

. And every youngest child, every infant practically from the start. In this way, and
in this way only, respect for the integrity and individuality of every human person
can be built into all relations of adults to him and into the whole planning and
process of education from the outset; and the requisite range of opportunity, the
equipment and the capacity and power for freedom will then be seen as part of the
very birthright of every child.

source: pages 225 – 228 of Friedrich Froebel and English Education edited by Evelyn
Lawrence 1952

site map – info@friedrichfroebel.com

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SMS has long been a common means of mobile communication in Europe. It has been available in the US for some time, but hasn’t been widely used. You don’t need a phone with a web browser to use Google’s SMS. Since the information is transmitted as text only, without graphics, only the ability to send and receive SMS messages is needed. At present, the service is only available only in English, through major US wireless carriers like AT&T, Nextel, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Your service plan must allow for SMS messaging also. Use of SMS doesn’t generally count against minutes under most plans, but both your SMS to Google and the answer received from Google will typically count towards messages allowed.

Use of the Google SMS service is free at present, though of course users will need to pay any connection and messaging charges from their wireless carriers.

Google SMS can be handy for travel in particular. For example, let’s say you’ve arrived at your hotel, and really have a taste for Chinese food. You may be able to use Google SMS to enter “Chinese food delivery” followed by the zip code of your hotel. Google will return, usually in less than a minute, a list of local Chinese restaurants that offer delivery. This is a nice alternative to looking in a phone book, where you may not know the city, and also is handy for situations where you may not be able to connect to the Internet easily.

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