John Caldwell Holt was born April 14‚ 1923. After finishing his studies‚ he served in the 2nd World War as part of the submarine service in the U.S.Navy. His experience in the war and what nuclear weapons did convinced him that nuclear weapons were the world’s greatest danger‚ and he saw world government as the only means to prevent such a catastrophe. This moved him to join the United World Federalists (UWF)‚ which he believed could help accomplish world governance. I agree with a blogger that this
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School Uniforms: Good or Bad? Kelly Wiles Picture this: walking into a school and seeing that America’s youth is not being judged by what they are wearing: whether their style is "cool" or not. "Uniforms are to the suburbs wildly" (Ferrandino‚ Newsweek). Whether students approve or not‚ uniforms are spreading across the nation. There are many advantages to this school clothing restraint. They help students as well as parents resist peer pressure. They also prevent gang members from wearing gang accessories
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The most basic summarization of my thoughts on John Holt’s “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” would be to say I am in strong agreement with him. Holt describes his teaching experience with elementary school students and how he’s found fault in the most commonly used methods of such. In my opinion‚ learning even the most basic english concepts in a harsh pass or fail environment can take away from a person’s interest in these topics. A main factor in reading or writing should be the enjoyment
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Obesity in school children Children develop within a set framework and grow according to the levels of exercise and nutrition available to them as well as their particular genetic nature. In affluent countries such as Australia this growth can be affected by the lack of exercise and the consumption of too many kilojoules. Currently there are a large percentage of children who are verging on obesity or are obese‚ and this is an emerging cause for worry in today’s schools. Children today are not as
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EARTHQUAKE Introduction: An earthquake (also known as a quake‚ tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity‚ seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency‚ type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the
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used for unnecessary reasons. Men and women expect censorship to take over their jobs of being parents and protect their children from the harmful things in life‚ Doing that is not the government’s job. Men and women look at censorship as if it is just there to stop them from seeing/hearing certain things. Censorship has a deeper meaning than just not letting men women and children hear and see certain things‚ censorship is here for the “the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons-individuals
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the note-taking HOW CHILDREN FAIL (by John Holt‚ Pitman‚ 1965) 1. Most children in school fail. - Close to 40% of pupil who dropout before they finish in high school. - Be push up through the grades and out of the schools without caring if they know anything or not. - ’Raise our standards’ much higher‚ classrooms will bulge with kids who can’t pass the test to get into the next class. - Excepting a good handful student‚ they fail to develop the tremend-ous capacity for
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The lie of all lies is told by Mary Tilford when she is trying to get out of going back to the school her grandmother has her attending. She makes up a lie so terrible that‚ how could anyone not believe that lie coming from a child‚ so therefore it had to be true. In the second act‚ Mary Tilford decides to run home to her grandmother’s house because she is unhappy with having to attend the school‚ she then gets the idea to tell her grandmother that Martha and Karen are lovers and make “strange
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Autumn Miller 12/3/13 Children in American Schools While watching the video “Children in American Schools”‚ there were a lot of things that I found very surprising. Since here at Elida High School we have such a nice‚ clean environment to learn in‚ I couldn’t imagine trying to learn in the conditions some of those students were. I couldn’t believe there were schools with holes in the walls‚ water all over the floor‚ roof leaks‚ and still run off of coal. It’s really dangerous to have kids in
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Many high schools across America are requiring students to follow a dress code. There are many reason as to why this is beneficial in schools and why this is a bad thing for schools. However‚ I believe there are many more reasons as to why this is not a good thing for schools to implement than reasons why it is a good thing. Overall dress codes hurt the school more than they help. Requiring a school dress code is bad for schools because if someone is offended it isn’t anyone else’s problem but theirs
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