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- 1521: Australia
- ... partners: USA, Japan, ASEEAN, New Zealand, South Korea and the EU. Education Australia has over 7,500 government schools, 2,200 private schools, 37 universities, and 10 medical schools. There are about 3,000,000 school children and about 1.7 million full-time university students (1992). Many Australian children attend preschools. Then starting at age six all children must attend school, but at age fifteen, a child may leave school and start work. In high school a student will be immersed in studies of many different subjects. Aboriginal children have a bilingual education. Vacations consist of the following: five days at Easter, two weeks ...
- 1522: Germany
- ... and the one hundred marks in green. There are also coins. Education is very important in Germany. They have a public education system that is controlled by the individual states. All children must go to school for 9 or 10 years. After elementary school there are schools to choose from. The Gymnasium is a traditional junior and senior high school that prepares students for the university. Intermediate schools have academic subjects and job training, and Hauptschulen are vocational schools which mainly have job training. Comprehensive schools combine all three types of schools. Germany has ...
- 1523: Sexuality and Gender Role
- ... the gender of X to X's parents, they said just "X'. No one could know X's gender except X's parents and some scientists. About 5 years later, X became the age for school. X's parents and scientists considered the appearance of X. They cut X's hair. It was little bit longer than other boys, but shorter than other girls. X put the girl's upper garment and the boy's pants. It was so hard to distinguish the X's gender by X's appearance. At school, X was adapted well. X could play the soccer as well as the other boys and could play the rope jumping as well as the other girls. I don't remember the next stories. However ... When I read this, I perceived that the gender role is made by the society even though we were born with own sexuality. The other story is about my classmate when I was in high school. About 2 years ago, I saw him on the newspaper. The reporter interviewed him because he was the president of the group of homosexual in his college. That group was not formal group because ...
- 1524: Cause and Effect: Students' Grades
- ... curfew suddenly goes up, and "No TV!" A student certainly does not want this to happen, neither do the parents but why does it happen? Why does it happen to the smartest student in the school, or to a student who is not expecting it? Why do the grades drop like flies? There are many answers, but probably the most infamous answer is that the student doesn't try hard enough ... or extra-curricular activities and not realizing that there is studying to do for a test tomorrow. Studying and homework should come before sports and time to spend with friends. What grades you get in school now, will matter in the future. When deciding on accepting you, colleges look at your grades in high school, first. Then, they look at other things; your extra-curricular activities. Students may not realize this until it is too late. Students may think that there will be time later to do things and ...
- 1525: Drinking Hemlock and Other Nutritional Matters
- ... saying is indeed a statement of fact?” (3) Morowitz expresses his view that, “On the surface it seems strange that acquiring skills in assessing the validity of statements is not a core feature of the school curriculum.”(3) He describes Education as the transferring of subject matter from teacher to student with any uncertainty settled by appeal to authority, the teacher, an encyclopedia, etc. How knowledge is methodically obtained is often ... The majority of the population just goes with the flow, accepting assertions as facts along the way. I truly believe a change is long overdue. If we can fit “Silent Sustained Reading” into the high school curriculum, we can definitely teach our children how to search for the roots of knowledge.. Until now the only training similar to epistemology has been common sense training. I have always strongly believed that being smart in school is different from having “street” smarts. Those who are brilliant when it comes to educational matters are almost never as intelligent on the streets. One can debate which knowledge is superior to the other, ...
- 1526: My Childhood
- ... society. All humans go through the process of childhood socialization. It prepares us for the world we have to deal with as adults. There are three main agents of childhood socialization: the family, peers, and school. The family is the first and most important agent for the socialization of a child. Within the confines of the family, a child learns about love, protection, and security. In my household, concepts such as ... they seemed really cool, at least, until their mothers came up and embarrassed them in public. That public shame helped me to determine that smoking wasn't cool. I did, however, learn that going to school was cool. For eight hours a day, teachers attempted to socialize various behaviors into me. As the third agent of socialization, school instills the majority of technical skills into children. Reading, writing, science, and math are reinforced. Schools also deal with anticipatory socialization. This is the process of learning the knowledge, skills, and values of a ...
- 1527: College Obstacles
- ... not prepared me for the challenages ahead. After I made my decision to enter the band of college bound Students in Nevada, I found out that was the easy part. Since my grades in High School were not always the best, I had to take elementary classes first. My english and math needed some upgrading before starting my prereguistites. While I was attending these classes, I had to decide what else I wanted to do with my life. In High School, I had concentrated on Drafting courses. So I wanted to find something that would use this background. I went to a counselor to see where my apptitude was. We discussed Business Management to used for ... college. I started college a year and six months after I had my auto accident. My working abilities were more limited so I looked into financial aide so I would be able to go to school with out working. I checked out a Pell grant which would pay for all my classes and books. My age, lack of income and my diablities qualified me for this grant. Later after my ...
- 1528: Something That Has Changed Your Life
- ... my everyday life that this attitude would change. Some of the parts of my life I thought might be affected in little ways were, daily interactions with friends and family, how I went about doing school work, and how I handled my spare time. I have been able to come up with many ways in each of those parts of how my thinking needed to be changed, but I have not ... thought. Regardless, many of my relationships with family and friends did begin improving. Also my grades are beginning to get better in different subjects that I have begun to use my spare time in doing school work. However, there is much improvement that I would like to see myself make not only in the area of school work, but also in all of the other areas mentioned so that by the end of my last year of high school I will have changed.
- 1529: Compare and Contrast: "Dead Poets Society" and "Day of the Last Rock Fight"
- ... the children go to. In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” there schools are k-8th grade where it is all college kids in the other story. The students in “Dead Poets Society” go to school and live on campus. In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” they go to school eight class periods and come home. The similarities are both schools are all boys. Both of the schools have a conflict and could see girls when they didn't have school. The deaths in the two stories also differ. In “Dead Poets Society” there is 1 suicide and in “Day of the Last Rock Fight” there is 1 suicide and 1 murder. The suicide in “ ...
- 1530: How Identities, Aspirations, and Achievements Of Two Females Were Affected By The Aspects of Family, Class, Gender, and Race
- ... to things that she viewed in the media, through books, and through entertainment propaganda. I was also greatly influenced by family in the shaping of my identity. My mother valued education and my performance in school was very important to her. For many years, I took on the almost unrealistic, high expectations of my mother and thus it became part of my identity to always be at the pinnacle of my school. Later I discovered that not all knowledge comes from learning institutions, that in order to be a more "educated" person, I should not take school to the extremity that my mother had pushed me to, but explore other facets of life as well. So, my mother's exertion of pressure on me to well in academic arenas caused me ...
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