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- 381: Definition Of Education
- Education is defined as acquiring skills. There are many different ways to be educated and many subjects that can be studied. School is not the only place or setting in which we can learn or get educated. We usually receive information by seeing, touching, and hearing, but itˇ¦s useless unless we think about it. Otto Friedrich ... information and thinking. But, education canˇ¦t be complete with only informationˇ¦s transmittal and without the freedom of thinking. In our society, people who are well educated are those who graduated from a good school with good grades. In my own opinion, a person who has the ability to get good grades from a good school does not equal to a well-educated person. A person who gets good grade has the ability to receive information and fill out the same information on exams as answers, which just accomplished the ...
- 382: History of Public Schools
- ... became public knowledge, many people were outraged. Citizens who did not personally benefit from the public schools did not feel they should be taxed for its operation. Colonial leaders who felt strongly about the public school movement, such as Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and Henry Barnard, devoted much of their time to convincing citizens of the importance of education. The insight and dedication of colonial leaders to the movement for tax ... on the importance of an educated nation. A few of these men were especially notable for their contribution to the movement for tax-supported public schools. Noah Webster was an active contributor to the public school cause. He wrote many articles on the importance of education while the American identity was still being established. His most famous essay was called On the Education of Youth. He states, “…it is an object ... and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.” 3 He examined the functions of education in England and stated many improvements that could be made to ensure United States school facilities excelled beyond that of England. He also emphasized the importance of proper books to be utilized by the schools. Without the proper resources, education would be limited. Horace Mann also played a significant ...
- 383: Problems Teenagers Face
- ... tend to study who you really are and in the end know yourself better. A child who is popular is much less likely to go through this issue. As children get older and begin high school there is an increased importance of friends. As teenagers begin trusting and telling secrets to their friends, their relationship gains a sense of loyalty and obligation. When a teenagers finds him or herself thinking like ... Many young adults have sexually related fantasies about someone they know (or someone they don t know for that matter). It is also fairly common for adolescents to masturbate. When many adolescents have reached high school, they have had some experience with intimate sexual contact, such as kissing, caressing, or sexual intercourse. In the 80 s it was common to become sexually active young, however now it seems as though that ... other religions look down on sexual activity or anything of that nature before marriage. Sexuality is only one of the main issues that high-schoolers face. Another main concern in a teenager s life is school. The school day and the school atmosphere is much more treacherous then it was in elementary school. When they were younger children very few classrooms and they were taken care of by one or ...
- 384: Lean On Me
- East Side High School was labeled a "cauldron of violence." After they were designated this harsh term, Joe Clark becomes the head principal and changes it all around – or does he? Lean on Me is a story of hope, development, love, hate, and dependence. As a father figure and friend, Clark’s strict disciplining and harsh attitude helps heal, strengthen, and bring to life a struggling high school in New Jersey. But is this plot just a story for the movie screen? Did the true story really happen like this and end like this? Lean on Me might be moving and powerful, but ... is violent, angry, and set in his own ways and beliefs. His wife that left him and the one friend that he has are all reflective signs of his horrendous behavior. He walks around the school with a baseball bat, rather than a clipboard or briefcase. The fear that he "earns" is more prevalent than the respect that the students and teachers have for him. He likes to be known ...
- 385: Rosa Parks
- ... crining. You didn't have to wait for a lynching. You died each time you found yourself face to face with this kind of discrimination." Rosa Parks didn't like attending a poor, one-room school, with few books or supplies, not being able to stop on her way home from school to get a soda or a candybar. She hated how they were parts for blacks like restaurants, trains, and bus and even being forced to give up her seat for a white person. Rosa's mother, Leona McCauley, worked as a teacher, and the whole family knew the value of education. Rosa attended the local black elementary school, where her mother was the only teacher. When she graduated, the family worked hard to save enough money to send her to a private school for black girls. At the age of 11 she ...
- 386: School Ties
- ... comes to Nazi- captured Poland looking for economic blooming and leaves as a savior of more than 1,100 Jews. Many of our grandparents told us of the stories and we learned about it in school year after year, but to see it put to life was a totally touching experience. Some of us couldn't even bare to look at those gruesome scenes. The movie starts out in a Jewish ...
- 387: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... they even sent him to a shrink for it, proved to Holden that his parents didn’t care as much as they were supposed to. As Holden grew up, he found himself flunking out of school after school, never being able to stay in one place. This calamity was caused by either his overwhelmingly powerful hatred for people or because there was a conflict of interest between him and the school itself, about who they were trying to make him. Holden was also starting to view people as who they really were. Many of us in this world accept people at face value and never ...
- 388: A Separate Peace 2
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep what little sense of ... Finny). Phineas struggles with the disbelief that he can never be of any use to the war efforts with a busted leg. Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that changed his life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying ...
- 389: A Separate Peace
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep what little sense of ... Finny). Phineas struggles with the disbelief that he can never be of any use to the war efforts with a “busted leg.” Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that changed his life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying ...
- 390: Freedom In The United States
- ... effective means for people to use their freedoms effectively to bring about change from the government. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged as is evidenced in a recent court case where a Gloucester County school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the bill ...
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