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Hello, I’m Jane at DailyStep English and welcome to my Audio Blog.
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This week it is 50 years since the Beatles released their first record on 5th October 1962! So in this blog we’ll take a look at some of the major events of the 1960s, or the Swinging Sixties as they are known!

In the Audio Word Study, I’ll teach you some important expressions from the Sixties, and then you can hear audio descriptions of all the topics coming soon in the DailyStep audio lessons. If you subscribe, I’ll send you an audio lesson each weekday at your chosen levels, and you will soon find that your listening and speaking skills improve! As a subscriber you will also get full access to hear and download the audio in my full archive of audio blogs. Don’t forget to speak along with the audio files to improve your pronunciation and fluency! Finally, there’s great audio quotation from John Lennon.

But first, how did the Swinging Sixties get their name?

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The Swinging Sixties (by Jane Lawson at DailyStep.com)

Fifty years ago this week, on 5th October 1962, four young men from the Northern English city of Liverpool released their first single, and Britain changed forever. They recorded the song “Love Me Do”, in Abbey Road recording studio in London and the song went straight into the charts.

Britain at the beginning of the 1960s was a slightly depressing grey place, still trying to recover from the effects of World War Two, which had only finished a decade and a half earlier. The success of the Beatles and the explosion of youth culture that came with it transformed British society. The Swinging Sixties had started and for a while Britain became the fashion and music centre of the world. Bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who became famous all over the world. Their long hair, laid back attitude, and their apparent disrespect for authority and tradition shocked and worried many of the older generation, but the younger people loved this new sense of freedom. The generation gap was perhaps wider than it had ever been before.

But the 1960s wasn’t just about pop music - the world was changing fast in lots of ways. In the USA the civil rights movement was gaining momentum as the black American minority demanded equal rights. This week in 1962 amid protest and rioting James Meredith, the first black student to attend the all white University of Mississippi, was escorted on to the campus by US marshals. You can see this historic moment in the bottom right hand picture. The Cold War intensified as the Cuban missile crisis threatened to engulf the world in nuclear war, and construction of the Berlin Wall continued as the division in Europe became more acute.

It’s all a long time ago now but some people still argue whether the changes that came in the 1960s were good or bad. But one thing is certainly true - Britain became a freer and more tolerant place, and surely that must be good! The Beatles went on to become the most famous group in the world and had lots of hit records, but split up in 1970. People were always asking them if they would reform until John Lennon was shot in 1980. George Harrison died in 1991 but the other two members, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star, still play music. Paul McCartney performed a favourite Beatles song “Hey Jude”, at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. What’s your favourite Beatles song? Maybe you’d like to discuss it with other DailyStep students on our FaceBook page.

Let’s move on now to our Audio Word Study, where I’ll teach you the meanings of some expressions from this article. If you are a subscriber to my regular audio lessons on DailyStep.com (please click here to view prices or subscribe), you can hear and download the Audio Word Study, and you can also download the audio for this article at the bottom of this page.

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There’s a lot of hope today that playing mindless brain training games will make you smarter. But instead of trying a quick fix, why not read something that will really work out your brain? It may not be easy, but perhaps you’ll actually learn something by wrestling with difficult material.
Dominic Cummings, at the time special adviser on policy to the education secretary of Britain Michael Gove, argued in Some Thoughts On Education and Political Priorities that “we need an ‘Odyssean’ education so that a substantial fraction of teenagers, students and adults might understand something of our biggest intellectual and practical problems, and be trained to take effective action.”

What does an “Odyssean” education mean? Cummings draws primarily from two influential thinkers: Nobel prize-winning physicist Murray Gell Mann and the famous biologist E.O. Wilson, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology.

Murray Gell Mann aruged there is a scientific and political need for “an ‘Odyssean’ philosophy that can synthesize a) math and the natural sciences, b) the social sciences, and c) the humanities and arts, into necessarily crude, trans-disciplinary, integrative thinking about complex systems.”

E. O. Wilson argued, in his book Consilience, for the need to integrate knowledge across subjects. Wilson says, “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

Cummings wrote: “An Odyssean curriculum would give students and politicians some mathematical foundations and a map to navigate such subjects without requiring a deep specialist understanding of each element.”

In an appendix, he gives a number of recommendations for what he thinks such a curriculum might entail. I have included only the books and papers he recommends and removed some of his comments, although those are worth reading in entirety. In the full document he also gives recommendations for content areas to master. Keep in mind this is his list, which is a reflection of his mind and interests.

Click on the links for the full references. Read his entire paper here. If you think something should be added to this list, please leave your recommendation in the comments so we can all benefit.



Read more: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einstein/201401/want-get-smarter-read-something-list

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