An Excellent Education In today’s economy and job marketplace‚ it has been argued that a vocational or professional focus in education is more beneficial than an education which has study of the liberal arts at it’s core. At the basis of this notion‚ lies the mindset that the lone goal of a college education is to provide one with a means for financial success. This oft-held belief posits that college is just a ticket to the corporate world‚ and a high paying job. If one believes this
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Values education is term used to name several things‚ and there is much academic controversy surrounding it. Some regard it as all aspects of the process by which teachers (and other adults) transmit values to pupils.[1] Others see it as an activity that can take place in any organisation during which people are assisted by others‚ who may be older‚ in a position of authority or are more experienced‚ to make explicit those values underlying their own behaviour‚ to assess the effectiveness of these
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Physical education In most educational systems‚ physical education (PE)‚ (also called physical training (PT) or gym)‚ is a course which utilizes a play or movement exploration setting for the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group‚ the application of these skills‚ and their results. It also can refer to any intramural or extracurricular sportor physical activity students take part of through their school system. It should be noted that unlike other curricula‚ a
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The process of education is considered so important in our society that no parents‚ who can afford it‚ can imagine having their children go uneducated. It has become such an integral part of our lives that for most people‚ completing the process of education appears to be a matter of habit. Others‚ who have so far remained outside this process‚ are now being covered by the literacy programmes of the government and various non-governmental organizations. Extending the privilege to everybody in the
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Culture and Education Culture itself is neither education nor law making; it is an atmosphere and a heritage. —Henry Louis Mencken Lucinda Zmarzly‚ my Mathematics professor and also my interviewee‚ was born in 1973‚ Lincoln‚ Nebraska. Then she went to public schools here. She started her college education in North-west University‚ studying chemical engineering. In her second year‚ she transferred to UNL and majored in Mathematics. I had an interview with her and let me use it to interpret how culture
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2012 Sexual Education Education is a major part of development in all societies. Through education‚ changes in behavior‚ thought and personal growth can be incited in today’s youth. Parents and teachers strive as a whole to make sure to prepare those same youths for the world in which those youths will soon find themselves. Unfortunately‚ there is a lot of disagreement on the methodology used and content to be taught. One of the subjects that is highly debated is sexual education. Most can agree
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In my view (pre-extensive research) global education prepares students to successfully function (or “compete”—I don’t like this terminology) in an increasingly global environment. Especially with the advent of the Internet‚ I believe this is a pertinent and vital topic of discussion in the educational realm. I think this surpasses multicultural education in that it not only exposes students to various cultures and encourages respect and appreciation for other cultures but it emphasizes moving away
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Contrastive Analysis of Education in China and in America 1. Introduction Education has an immense impact on human society since it came into being. Primarily‚ education is vital to the development of an individual. It is assumed that a person is not in the proper sense till he is educated. It trains the human mind to think and make the right decision. Also education is of great importance to any country in the world. The prosperity of a nation depends on the development of education as well as the development
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Online Education The modern age is the age of information technology and eLearning. The world has literally been placed on one’s finger tips. A click of a mouse can take you across the globe in a jiffy. The steep learning curve of knowledge never seemed so easy to scale in the past. Cyber technology and cyber learning are now the new mantras to success. Thanks to the internet traditional class rooms are rapidly giving way to ultra-modern online classes. Computer technology has opened up a new world
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The importance of education particularly in the 21st century to the total development of an individual is increasingly being over emphasized. This is due to the fact that an uneducated individual has little or nothing to offer the society; in terms of acquired wisdom. It is therefore not surprising that most parents are now developing keen interest about the education of their children‚ a situation that leads them to want to know more as well
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