Essays on Education Page 336

In today’s society, there needs to be equal rights for everyone regardless of color, sex, or orientation within the place of employment. When I look for a place to work, I not only have to look for benefits, pay, but if they support the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender community. As a member of the…

In his book, The Storytelling Animal, Johnathan Gottschall conveys the idea that stories have not only been beneficial for the development of humanity and civilization but also completely necessary for our continued survival. “The storytelling mind is a crucial evolutionary adaptation,” he writes. “It allows us to experience our lives as coherent, orderly, and meaningful….

Education and social inequality are often attributed together to show clear correlation When the rich have access to majority of the resources towards education, it is inevitable for them to be strongly capable of earning more powerful positions on top of the social pyramid. One the other hand, the poor would most naturally be depleted…

The statement ‘once a cheater, always a cheater’ refers to various motives for cheating — qualities that make him or her more likely to be an infidel. Several individual risk factors have been identified, including Men are more likely to commit infidelity than women, most of all because men have more testosterone, which makes them…

Historically, the first online course was launched in 1986 by John F. Kennedy University in California – USA, and it was popular in some large universities: MIT, Stanford, Harvard,… with websites such as: edx, Coursera, Khan Academy…Over the past few year, with the era of industrial 4.0, online education has experienced an explosive growth rate…

The idea of social construct affects the way we live our lives as it plays an important role on the way society has been constructed throughout our time. Social construct refers to the idea that a certain group of people have created or have built social constructs for them to organize their thoughts and actions…

One of the main factors that indicate the quality of education as well as the economic and social development in every country is knowledge. Higher education system is the knowledge indicator for each country, it shows whether it is high or low (Salmi, 2010). Consequently, for ensuring a sustainable growth economy and obtaining a high…

“Dear Maria Abreu, It’s official. You are in.” On May 21, 2013 I received an email that I had been accepted to the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit in Los Angeles, California. I was so excited! I felt seen and felt like I was going to be a part of something big! I was going to…

Over the last century, our technology has continued to evolve and improve. Technology has changed in any aspects from creation of what is now called “the internet”, that able anyone to produce media content and present it to the world, to various applications and hi-tech gadgets. Technology is a great help to us because it…

Maslow hierarchy of needs can be a very useful tool for every teacher. Maslow proposed that people have five different sets of needs, listed below, and these can be applied in the classroom to increase students’ performance. Physiological needs: All persons require to satisfy needs associated with their immediate physical survival, such as need for…