on College Education One could think of multiple reasons as to why they need a college education. Louis Menand introduces three theories that concern today’s college education in the article “Live and Learn: Why we need college”‚ found in The New Yorker. As a former Ivy League professor‚ Menand was never questioned about what he was teaching his students. But while teaching at a public university‚ he was shocked after a number of students continued to ask him questions such as “Why did we have
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Stephanie Rodriguez March 20‚ 2012 T‚ Th 12:30 Unit 2A Final Draft Unit 2 We All Have A Lot To Learn Fareed‚ Zakaria. “We All Have A Lot To Learn.” The Daily Beast. Daily Beast‚ 08 Jan. 2006. Web. 6 Mar.2012. Education in many countries is different. Many countries depend on the education to move their people forward and many others don’t really care about giving their people education. Its amazing what some people would do when they realize
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Little or much‚ well or poorly‚ many of us today have learnt English. But have we ever come up with an ask questioning why we basically do that? In my learning English‚ many people have asked me why I learn English. Normally‚ I would answer either saying that I just simply enjoy it or explaining it for the want to better communicate with the foreign people. And I guess most of people would think it so or probably agree more to the latter one. Truth is‚ I still don’t really know what I am working
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Why Do We Learn English The phenomenon comes into vogue that Chinese people receive English education at an early age. Even the Chinese students are willing to show off their English skills or are proud of specializing in English‚ while what the most veritable motivation for studying is English seems to be confusing. And I‚ as a typical Chinese student who has been learning English for a long time‚ was also curious about that and explained it basing on two aspects; one for the society and one
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Home Learning Project Do we have a choice where we live? RE Where did all the displaced Jews settle after the Holocaust? Explain what persecution and prejudice are: Persecution is to ill-treat someone just because of their race‚ religion‚ political beliefs‚ gender or sexual orientation. Prejudice is a judgement made of a person before you actually know them. The judgement is usually one of negativity and based on stereotypes. Relate this to why and how this resulted in Jews having
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“Should we have sports in college?” College sports are as important as education‚ as a healthy mind is a healthy body is a well-known adage” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” Thus‚ may sport be the reasons behind good grades in college. Lack of exercising affects our minds negatively‚ involving our students in inappropriate habits‚ fewer mental skills and increasing the rates of diseases in their bodies as well as‚ provide scholarship will convince students to continue their education
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why do we have pets? I believe that people have pets for comfort‚ Pets are like a friend you never had ! There are some times help full ‚some times cute‚ and some times annoying . pleas wait a minute. Ok..... Ok....... *sorry about that* I have some bad times with my cat p.s. she is evil sorry again . || Ok i know you want to hear some facts about why people have pets ! yaaaaaaa oh sorry I’ll stop now ( i hope i will stop now ) 1 .Why do we have pets? It’s a very interesting question ….actually
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education Why do religions have rules? Why do we have rules? We have rules to stop us from doing the wrong things. They are there to guide us. If we did not have rules we would have a world of cruelty and thievery. And no one would like to live in a world full of cruelty and hatred. Religions also have rules but for different things. Religious rules tell you how to behave and respect God. Most religious rules come from priest or monks (very religious people). Others were written by people we don’t
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narrow-minded and do not seem to understand that their actions only serve to breed mistrust that undermine themselves and their loved ones because as Martin Luther king Jr. famously said: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
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Preview: Menand’s article “Live and Learn” covers the idea of the educational system and higher education. Trying to answer the question: what is the most appropriate system for higher education? He answers this first by describing three theories that higher education runs off. The first is that education should be ran by the book and by a grading scale‚ the second is using the pass fail incentive‚ and the third and‚ the most important to our modern society‚ is the ideal that college is more for specialized
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