Essays on Education Page 332

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyday life in many ways and challenged many things that appeared to be set in stone. The interest in online education is higher than ever because of the lockdowns and restrictions on public gatherings. Although MOOCs have their disadvantages, many of them can be solved with better design, and online…

When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. — Jeff Bezos I come…

It is widely known and accepted that today a majority of people must go to college in order to be successful. Athletes seem to have found a way to sneak around this, though. Many athletes go from high school athletics straight into the pros without getting a college education. They view college as a burden…

When my father was my age he had already worked 8 jobs. When he went to college, he used to trudge uphill in the snow at 3am to go work at the factory, and then, even more amazingly, trudge uphill back at 8am in time to catch the bus to his University. The man was…

Nine out of ten kids that use school uniforms said they didn’t like the uniforms? One in five schools or 20% of schools in America use this school uniform policy. School uniforms aren’t a new thing. They were introduced all the way back in 16th century England. School uniforms have many issues and should not…

“So, do y’all ride elephants to schools in Bangladesh?” I was talking to my host sister while vigorously searching for my luggage on the carousel. Almost two days of endless flying and layovers at multiple airports had finally brought me to Dallas, Texas and the best year of my life was about to begin. The…

Stromberg, David. “Good and Bad: Love and Intimacy from Plato to Melanie Klein.” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 78, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 159–181. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1057/s11231-018-913 While this piece focuses mainly on Klein, Plato, and Freud’s theories related to love and in comparison to each other in a psychoanalytical fashion, it also contains…

It was a dream come true! When I received an email from the Vice President of Enrollment at Hult International Business School on February the ninth telling me that they were interested on me, I could not believe it. To study abroad and being able to interact with different cultures is one of the things…

In Dante’s Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Canto V introduces the torments of Hell in the Second Circle. Here, Minos, with his tail wrapped around himself, tells the damned where they will spend eternity. The Second Circle of Hell is inhabited by the lustful, those who sinned with their flesh. They endure punishment in…

These past couple of months have been a whole new experience for me. This was the first time in my life I lived somewhere away from home. I was nervous at first because I knew I wouldn’t have my mom to rely on all the time whenever I ran into a problem. On move in…