keannu
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1. In "Finders keepers, losers weepers," , "losers" seems to mean people who failed in finding something. So is this a common idiom?
2. "If you will" seems to mean "so to speak" here, but its orignial meaning would be "If you will (do something)", so do I have to tell the two depending on context?
st181)School hallways, lunchrooms, and playing fields have always served as real-life laboratories for students to observe moral events, make choices, and learn from the choices they and others make . Someone finds a wallet full of money and must decide what to do. In turn , this may set off ripples of further moral activity. Other students begin talking about what should be done. At least one child will say "Finders keepers, losers weepers," at least one other will challenge the slogan, and further argument will ensue. Such patterns of activity represent a miniature, if you will, "embryonic" version of the kinds of moral activity that occur on a more complex and sophisticated basis in larger society. Moreover, like the explicit instructional dimension of schooling, these patterns themselves become more complex and sophisticated as students pass from childhood through adolescence.
2. "If you will" seems to mean "so to speak" here, but its orignial meaning would be "If you will (do something)", so do I have to tell the two depending on context?
st181)School hallways, lunchrooms, and playing fields have always served as real-life laboratories for students to observe moral events, make choices, and learn from the choices they and others make . Someone finds a wallet full of money and must decide what to do. In turn , this may set off ripples of further moral activity. Other students begin talking about what should be done. At least one child will say "Finders keepers, losers weepers," at least one other will challenge the slogan, and further argument will ensue. Such patterns of activity represent a miniature, if you will, "embryonic" version of the kinds of moral activity that occur on a more complex and sophisticated basis in larger society. Moreover, like the explicit instructional dimension of schooling, these patterns themselves become more complex and sophisticated as students pass from childhood through adolescence.
