Essays on Good Education

“I Just Wanna Be Average” is a narrative piece written by Mike Rose who describes the struggle children go through because of the educational system which is rigid. He was one of the students who did not fit in well with the traditional system of education. There were many other intelligent students from the underprivileged social classes and they were supposed to follow the vocational program in high school which would make them unsuitable for further college education. Moreover, books of classical literature first drew Mike Rose to reading. Mr. McFarland made Mike and other students interested in reading ...

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In Steve Brody’s essay, “How I got smart,” the writer explains that he was initially uninterested in receiving a formal education, and this lack of interest was reflected in his grades at school. However, Brody decided to focus his attention on his academic work when he realized that it would impress the leading student in his class, whom he found to be attractive. Although the girl was impressed with the writer’s knowledge for a period of time, she still was not impressed with him to the point that she would become his love ...

It is not an untold secret that a good education is an essential and imperative feature in one’s life. The acquirement of good education does not only require graduation from high school, but college graduation is equally important. Comparing and contrasting high school and college is rather unbefitting as the two demonstrate two completely distinct worlds. Both have their unique features and lifestyle patterns. However, the two worlds have certain similarities and dissimilarities. It is a large leap to college from high school. Almost every student expects that his experiences in college will be similar to high school. However, this ...

Criticism involves the utilization of standards in order to make a judgment for the purpose of bringing positive change. Critical theory argues that we should be inquisitive about the production of enlightenment its dissemination and its connection to influence and how this impacts on the individuals; how it limits and contributes to the enhancement of our freedoms (Art 2011). Are we bound to a dominating freedom system or does it offer us a liberating system of government? The theory originates from the Frankfurt school in Germany.

Critical theorists begin with the thought that men and women are essentially enclosed in a world that ...

Part I

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Ageism is a major problem that affects the elderly individuals in society. Usually, these people are treated with a lot of prejudice where in society; people look down on them and treat them as if they are not part of that society. There is also the issue of discrimination at work places. The old people are not given much attention because they are thought to be slow, ineffective and lazy. This puts them at a very high risk of being laid off from work. They are usually not considered for promotions since ...

According to United Nations report (UNDP 7) on urbanization trends around the world, urban population has surpassed rural population between the years 2000 to 2005 and will continue to do so. The North America is at the top of the list as the most urbanized continent with 82 percent living in cities, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean with 80 percent and Europe with 70 percent (UNDP 1). The report predicted that by 2050 the world will be one-third rural (34 percent of the population) and two-thirds urban (66 percent of the population). Evidently, there is an increasing ...

There are thousands of students who go to their local high school every day who do not graduate for different reasons. Young people are told that finishing high school is beneficial to their future, and it will allow them to move on to the next stage of their lives; college or get a job. However, there are some young people that do not really care whether or not they graduate from high school and some just drop out of high school because of other issues like not being able to keep up with everyone else. Some people do not know ...

Education goes beyond its conventional boundaries and determines people’s actions. In fact, what a person does is what they know and what they have learned in a formal or informal setup, through observation, assimilation or by way of instructions. The mind has the potential of learning more and expanding a person’s horizons of their knowledge. Education does not, therefore, start or end at a given point but rather continues throughout life. Just like John Dewey says, education is a social process, it continues throughout life and its outcome seen through the actions that people display on a day to day basis. It’s ...

Chapter 1

Summary In the first chapter, Reuben Stewart explains that communication is no doubt one among the most important aspects of our lives. According to Stewart, communication plays a fundamental role in all spheres of human life, starting from the very basic relationships to the complex work environment. Stewart further explains that communication is a complex process that can be interpreted and understood through various theories, most notably, personal theories and scholarly theories, as well as a combination of both. In this chapter, Stewart explains how communication can be essential in upholding occupational effectiveness. The essence of communication, according to Stewart, is ...

Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab economy that produces thousands of young people intending to join the workforce. As a result, it has to create new jobs to beat the employment expectations of young employees who want to have their contribution towards the economic growth and prosperity. The country is currently facing challenges in terms of providing jobs as the need for jobs outweigh the availability (Mellahi, pp. 135). The monarchy of Saudi Arabia is quite powerful but great dissent and challenges of creating more jobs bring Saudi Arabia under great threat. Saudi Arabia has been putting many efforts at ...

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I hope you are fine and everything is well with you. First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Othman Mohammed Alqabandi. I am 18 years old and I am from Kuwait. I studied in Kuwait for all my life. It is a small country located in the Middle East. Our native language is Arabic. I got the education in my country and then I came to the United States to study further and graduate. I am now studying in California State University - Northridge (CSUN). My major is Mechanical engineering. I chose it because I ...

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A Good Education overtures a holistic approach that addresses an individual’s body and mind, as well as the spiritual aspects.

Aims of a Good Education

“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. — Aristotle” (“Keeping the Whole Child Heathly and Safe” 6). As Aristotle observed, the habits formed in childhood are significant in shaping an individual’s later life. Our souls are nourished by the presence of others, but the nourishment comes from caring. Therefore, the challenge is how we can disrupt the current system to ameliorate the lives of children and parents.

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Education is one of the most important aspects of any human life all over the world, and Canada is not left behind. Education has become very important over the past decades in the country. Every parent ensures that their child/children are in a position to get the best education in the country. Those that cannot afford to take their children to prestigious schools work had to make sure their children have the best of the middle class schools. All of these efforts help in showing us that education is very vital in the development and life of any child, or ...

“Waiting for ‘Superman’” is a powerful documentary movie that highlights and explores the issues and problems with American education system. It brings to fore the failure by schools, teachers, and government to stamp out myriad of problems that students encounter in their pursuit of good education. All the children captured in the documentary have great dreams. For instance, Daisy aspires to be a medic. She has written to one of the colleges to preserve her place. However, Guggenheim is very skeptical about the realization of this dream given the failure rates of most public schools. Guggenheim aptly demonstrates reduced standard of ...

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My Personal Philosophy

There are three things I value more in life than anything else –education, camaraderie and integrity. However, these does not mean that everything else is worthless or has no value to me. In fact, I think that value is something that varies among people depending on how they were brought up and what they wanted to accomplish out of life. I value education because my parents reared me believing that a good education is one’s person only asset that cannot be taken away nor would run dry. Camaraderie is important for me because I believe ...

Introduction

Social inequality is not a new idea in our society and individuals as well as groups have been facing various kinds of discrimination, based on race, ethnicity, health, and disability. These are all society created taboos that hurt and affect the society in a negative manner. Dominating groups of the society label some groups or individuals as inferior and then start oppressing them on the basis of these categorizations. This paper intends to discuss the race, ethnicity, health and disability along with discussing these all with the perspective of social inequality in the society.

Race and Social Inequality

The term, Race, connotes a group of people ...

On Education and Learning Pattern of Students

Introduction Education, as they say, is the most important intangible wealth anyone could ever posses. Relatively though, in many cases, this particular wealth comes with a price. People from all over the globe desire to gain better choices of being educated. Some might not completely want the approach of traditional teaching, others want to improve whatever the national educational system is able to offer, while some others have no other choice but to hope that one day, they too would be able to finance their way to better source of education. I have chosen to work on this ...

Deborah Meier’s book ‘The Power of Their Idea’ explores a number of issues affecting the public education system. These factors include the leadership in the education system, the philosophy of education, constraints facing teachers in delivering education among other factors. The book seems to be speaking from the author’s viewpoint. The education today is a result of various developments hatched for the purpose of changing the values or the philosophy of education. According Meier (2002), the teachers should have the greater autonomy of handling or running the affairs of public schools. Arguably, such autonomy enables teachers to view the ...

The cost of education has been gradually rising over the years, making it quite difficult for financially disadvantaged individuals to access education. Different bodies such as academic institutions, governments, non-governmental organizations, and even individuals have come up to help these students by offering scholarships. However, not all the students who need this kind of assistance actually succeed in getting it, owing there too many candidates for these scholarships among potential students every year. In addition, there are those who are neither aware of the existence of these grants nor of the process of applying for them. This has led ...

Barack Obama July 29, 2010 Speech on Education

Barack Obama, the President of the United States gave a speech on Education during the National Urban League Centennial Conference. He spoke at the 100th anniversary convention of the National Urban League in Washington D.C. He was addressing the Urban Leaguers on the importance of reforming the American Educational system for better education of the American children. The issue of Education reform sounded an alarming issue to him since he termed it as “the economic issue of our time” (The CNN Wire Staff). Obama uses words and people’s examples on how the education sector can be reformed. He begins ...

Jonathan Kozol’s book The Shame of a Nation discusses and examines the incredibly prevalent issue of wealth and income inequality as it relates to education. In short, the kind of segregation that occurred between black and white during the Jim Crow era of the 20th century is still happening to a large extent, and it is dramatically affecting the lives and educations of many families. Wealth inequality dramatically dictates who goes to school where, and the quality of their education at present prevents them from uplifting themselves into any kind of better future. Social mobility is at a standstill, as the ...

The Civil Rights Movement in the American South gave rise to a number of amazingly intelligent African-American activists and speakers. One of those speakers was Malcolm X. Malcolm X was born into a family that was touched by racial violence, and as a result, he became one of the leaders at the forefront of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and onwards (X and Haley). Unlike some of the other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X was unabashedly fierce on certain topics-- notably, Malcolm X frequently advocated the separation of the races, and occasionally even advocated the idea ...

The conflict theory best explains the upper and working class group economic situation in the society. According to the conflict theory, the society is always at conflict with each other all the time because of their class, race and ethnicity (Dennis, 1998). Conflict theory stipulates that people compete for the limited resources in the society which are wealth, power and prestige. All the resources bring social change to the society and some of these changes oppress the lower class people since they are not in a position to be wealthy. People from a certain class will always seek to gain wealth ...

What is water

Water is one of the most important sources of our life. The human body consists of from 78% to 55% water, depending on body size. All living things need water even more than food; hence, water is very valuable resource. Water covers over 70 percent of the earth, 96.5% of all water in our planet is in oceans. But only 2% of all Earth's water is drinkable ( ga.water.usgs.gov). In fact, people need water to drink, to wash our hands, to cook, in industrial use and many other things. Any changes in water quality adversely affect living organisms or make ...

The Brown vs. Board of Education case was a colossal influence on desegregation of schools in the United States of America. It created a milestone of equal opportunities in schools among the blacks and whites. The ruling of this case took place in 1954 and it ruled in favor of Mr. Brown. It is among one of the important cases ever heard on racial prejudice in the American history. The Brown vs. Board of Education case is about a young third grader girl in Kansas, Topeka city named Linda Brown (Dudley 48). Linda was subjected to trekking one mile through a railway ...

Executive Summary

The reason of this research was to enhance education and knowledge of diabetes and its types for the good wellbeing and encourage healthy way of life actions to decrease diabetes base on the community in developing states with a comparatively high occurrence of diabetes. The occurrence of diabetes was measured by the questionnaire methodology distributed in community to know the information level of diabetes and its occurrence. The expansion of these factors of diabetes diseases reveals the main reasons enforcing cultural, economic and social transformation in the community of developing states. These similar reasons are enforcing the epidemiological background with ...

I am from Saudi Arabia presently studying in the USA. In this essay, I will try to compare and contrast the cultural differences in food, dress, art, music, language, education, lifestyle and government between the two countries. My purpose for doing so is for me to share with you my views and experiences with cultural diversity. It is a fact that cultural differences and preferences exist for a number of reasons, such as, in the following: Food: Just like in the US, Saudi Arabia also has pizza, fast food and restaurant chains. However, under the Islamic dietary laws, pork is ...

Wage and hour laws are enforced by the wage and hour division which is entrusted on ensuring that the nation’s labor laws are well enacted. These labor laws consist of the overtime wages, minimum wages for workers, provisions of child labor and the provisions concerning hours that workers are supposed to work in a week. United States came up with Fair Labor Standards Act to ensure that all united state’s workers complied with hour and minimum wage standards. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was enacted in 1938 as a measure for the standards for the overtime pay and the ...

The inception of the Boston Latin School in the New England during the colonial times, precisely the year 1635, marks the beginning of America’s formal education. The school was founded on the principles of equality and being universal. Free public education was established after the revolution and expanded due to efforts by the likes of Horace Mann, Booker T Washington among others (Reese, 2011). However, in recent days many have criticized the education system for not addressing the reality in America and for being too shallow. This paper will try to expound on these notions by specifically dissecting ...

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1.0 Extended Introduction There are many theories that have been put forward that try to address the issue of leadership and success in an organization. Many theorists have taken different issues and focused on them to try to explain the disparities in leadership styles that are adopted by different leaders in different organizations. Since the seventeenth century, there have been researches that have been focused on leadership in relation to hereditary attributes as seen in the works of Galton and Eysenck (1869; Derue et al. 2011, p. 7). In their research, it was ...

SPEECH ON MY SON

It is almost every father’s dream to see his son follow in his footsteps or simply become successful. It has also been the same for me as I always hoped that my son would not necessarily be like me but be a successful man in his life. To us men, success is measured by how many things one has achieved in life; to us it is represented by a good education, a good job, financial stability, and a happy family. My son has achieved only one of these measures, a good education, but I feel that with such an achievement he is on ...