Google Translator

I’m sure that I could use the Google translator preparing lessons having students translate from English/Spanish or Spanish/English. Students could gain valuable understanding of both languages Spanish and English using this tool.

I am a bilingual teacher, native English speaker. Most of my parents are native Spanish speakers and many do not understand English. I prefer to communicate with parents using both languages. The Google translator will save me valuable time when I am in a hurry. I wouldn’t use it all of the time - it’s my experience with some effort, I can translate without the assistance of the Google Translator AND I need to keep my skills sharp in Spanish!

I tested some translations of quotes about Education from Great Quotes.com. Decisions for selections were based on my lerning experiences taking this MISD professional development aobu Web 2.0 - 23 Things.

See for yourself. What do you think about the Google Translator?

Lisa Pampuch, newspaper columnist said...

Improving public education is a patriotic act. There’s no better way to perpetuate a strong, safe, prosperous America than by providing her children with the education needed to keep her that way.

Spanish
Mejorar la educación pública es un acto patriótico. No hay mejor manera de perpetuar una fuerte, segura, próspera América que al proporcionar a sus hijos con la educación necesaria para mantenerla de esa manera.

Vietnamese
Nâng cao giáo dục công cộng là một hành động yêu nước. Không có cách nào tốt hơn để duy trì một, mạnh an toàn, thịnh vượng Mỹ hơn bằng cách cung cấp con của mình với giáo dục cần thiết để giữ cho mình như vậy.


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Ralph Waldo Emersonsaid...

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Spanish
El futuro pertenece a aquellos que prepararse para ella.

Chinese Traditional
未來屬於那些誰準備。


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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge said...

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Spanish
Parte principal de la educación intelectual no es la adquisición de hechos, sino que aprenden cómo hacer que los hechos en directo.

Dutch
Het grootste deel van de intellectuele vorming is niet de verwerving van feiten, maar leren hoe om feiten leven.

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Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State said...

Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''

Spanish
Nuestra actitud hacia nosotros mismos debe ser''insaciable''en el aprendizaje y hacia los demás''a ser incansables en la enseñanza.''

Chinese Traditional
我們的態度應該是''對自己要學習的好奇心和對他人'' ''是誨人不倦。''

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Ayn Rand said...

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Spanish
El único propósito de la educación es enseñar a un estudiante como para vivir su vida mediante el desarrollo de su mente y el equipamiento de él para hacer frente a la realidad. La formación que necesita es teórico, es decir, conceptual. Él tiene que aprender a pensar, comprender, integrar, probar. Él tiene que ser enseñado lo esencial de los conocimientos descubiertos en el pasado, y él tiene que estar en condiciones de adquirir nuevos conocimientos por su propio esfuerzo.

French
Le seul but de l'éducation est d'enseigner à un étudiant comment vivre sa vie par le développement de son esprit et lui équiper pour faire face à la réalité. La formation est théorique dont il a besoin, c'est à dire, conceptuel. Il doit être appris à penser, à comprendre, à intégrer, à prouver. Il doit être enseigné les rudiments de la connaissance a découvert dans le passé, et il doit être équipé d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances par ses propres efforts.

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Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist said...

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Spanish
Toda mi vida, como por un abismo sin fondo. He estado echando cargas van de la información en la vacante del olvido que yo llamo mi mente.

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John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist said...

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Spanish
Estoy totalmente seguro de que dentro de veinte años miraremos hacia atrás a la educación tal como se practica en la mayoría de las escuelas de hoy y me pregunto que habría tolerado algo tan primitivo.

French
Je suis tout à fait certain que vingt ans à compter de maintenant, nous jetterons un regard sur l'éducation telle qu'elle est pratiquée dans la plupart des écoles d'aujourd'hui et d'émerveillement que nous pourrions avoir toléré quelque chose d'aussi primitif.

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