“Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind” -Virginia Woolf It takes a lot of patience and an innate love for expressing thoughts and imaginations in the form of words, in order to achieve excellence in writing.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “smooth sea never made a skilled sailor”. Most of us will complaint endlessly about the hardships in life and worry about the challenges in life. We would risk life and limb to achieve what we want in life, and we would have to bypass people who have a habit of fishing in troubled
Parents have an important role to play in every aspect of their children’s life. It is dangerous for parents to take on the typical “helicopter parenting” approach as that imposes detrimental effects on the wellbeing of children. Playing an active role while still giving children the space and independence to explore themselves is absolutely important. It
Tutoring is a job that may seem easy on the outside but there is so much of depth and nuances to it. There are often so many stigmas and misconceptions associated with tutoring these days, especially since the way learning and educating has undergone its very own transformations. These misconceptions about this noble profession drives
“Once there, I shall so advance with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.” says the protagonist in Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. Hardy tells us that what we know now, would turn out to be an incomplete fact in future, or we would discover
There are the good study techniques, and the bad ones, and there isn’t anything in between. The problem kicks in when one isn’t sure what works for them, because one size doesn’t fit all. We’re not cut from the same cloth and hence expecting a fixed set of techniques to work on everyone is just impractical. Private
Singapore parents are constantly concerned about which school they should send their children to. Every parent wants the best possible education for their child. This is the reason why parents ensure that they pick the best preschool, primary school, secondary school, junior college and so on, to ensure that the best is offered. Parents know that they
We often catch ourselves feeling inadequate and insecure about everything related to us. We become extra cautious with our words and actions, which often times makes us feel restricted on the inside. Tuition teachers and teachers in school are well aware of this feeling as they themselves have been students in their lives. They can empathise with their
Studying smart involves the implementation of a whole lot of learning strategies and learning techniques. This does not come easily as one needs to have sufficient practice in order to be able incorporate this into a study routine. Tuition teachers and school tutors who have had the experience of guiding thousands of students would have
Math is an intriguing subject but it is also one that is most feared by many students. Most students struggle with understanding concepts as they dive into them with the preconceived notion that it will be challenging to begin with. Math tuition teachers and school tutors teach students in a systematic manner by using different strategies so