Essays on Education Page 178

Colleges and universities play a crucial role in acquiring knowledge and pursuing education. Although high school provides the basics, it is insufficient for dealing with life’s complexities. On the other hand, college and university professors offer a more comprehensive understanding of various subjects that goes beyond what is covered in high school. These higher education…

E. E. Cummings, born in 1894 and died in 1962, produced numerous poems featuring unconventional punctuation, capitalization, and placements of lines, words, and even individual letters. His most challenging form of prose is likely the ideogram, which is exceedingly concise and incorporates visual and auditory elements. Within these ideograms, there might exist sounds or characters…

Lisa Egan argues that there are two different theories of looking at the word disability. The social model and the medical model, the social model is how society places barrier in the way of an impaired person. The medical model is when someone can’t function because there is something wrong with their bodies or brain….

Approximately 10 percent of the adult population have learning disabilities. Learning disabilities also affect about 5 to 10 percent of school-age children. Most disabilities occur in math, spelling, reading comprehension, oral expression, and written language. The most common learning disabilities are in reading. Children with learning disabilities also have problems with attention, memory, and behavioral…

The School Government is in charge of overseeing the school and ensuring that it maintains high educational standards. They have specific responsibilities such as monitoring Health & Safety, the Curriculum, Staffing, and other areas. They assist with setting school targets, managing budgets, and developing plans for school improvement and staffing. Additionally, they evaluate the progress…

With the advent of the Internet and mobile devices like cell phones, everyone is now connected. This has both advantages and disadvantages for young students in school. Hence, parents and teachers are faced with the dilemma of whether or not to allow cell phones in schools. Initially, it may seem highly inappropriate due to being…

A tragedy is a religious experience which is main objective is to make the audience reflect on serious matters in order to know ourselves better and to hopefully grow as a person. It is a performed action that conveys both the feelings of pity and fear (as Aristotle’s definition of tragedy establishes) leading to the…

Caroline Bird’s 1975 article “The Case Against College” (Bird 15-18) argues that not all high school graduates are ready for college, a claim that still holds true today. From my personal observations, I have encountered college students who lack the necessary maturity for college and even obedience school. In her article, Bird raises several points…

Peter K. Smith discusses different types of school bullying, such as cyberbullying and biased or identity-based bullying. He also explores the progression of school bullying over time, known as the “four waves,” from the 1970s to present day. Furthermore, he references European research on preventing bullying, identifies potential causes and risk factors for being a…

I strongly belive that sport at school should not be compulsory for the following reasons:The General assembly of United Nations and the beckration of human rights states:Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to thier children.Therefore schools can not make the decision whether students do physical education…