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- 261: Languages In High School
- ... education should begin in American schools. Currently, the majority of foreign language programs are ineffective and poorly organized. Programs would be most substantially improved if the instruction of foreign languages began in early elementary grades. Teaching foreign languages to American students at the elementary level would be truly beneficial for several reasons. Firstly, if the study of a second language were to begin in elementary grades, children would have more years ... in class for fear of making a mistake and feeling unintelligent. They also do not enjoy playing games and engaging in other silly activities that might help them learn a second language. Many believe that teaching young children a second language can be a threat to their general education. It is thought that a child's mind can be clouded by an attempt to learn a second language. However, "psycholinguists have ...
- 262: Great Expectations 3
- ... patience. She didn t get frustrated and was always calm and collected. Maybe because when she was younger people were always patient with her. The doctors, her mother and the people that spent countless hours teaching her to read braille and getting to know her seeing eye dog, Niagara. Teaching her every pull, every tug and every sound. Niagara was her best friend and he enabled her to go out into the world with some confidence and pride. She felt that was important. The next ...
- 263: Land Ethics In Our Communities
- ... grow, and find more problems facing our land; things are not getting any better as time moves on. A possible addition to the small amount of education currently being done in this country, is the teaching of basic conservation science classes in elementary school; maybe if we start now, their generation will be brought up to mother the earth that has nurtured them. Other helpful additions include the passing of new city ordinances which would make it mandatory that businesses recycle, and teaching farmers alternative ways to take care of their crops, such as using bats instead of pesticides to keep insects off of their plants. Each culture responds differently to the problems our world is facing. Each ...
- 264: Law Schools
- ... schools were referred to as lecture schools. The Blackstone s Commentaries , which were used for instruction earlier, formed the sole basis of work for these lecture schools. Through the lecture method a new style of teaching came about. It was called the text-book method. The main concept of this method was for the students to study and memorize the literature in the books and recite it to the instructor. In ... the abstract formulation of the law was the essential need of students (22). Regardless of its critiques the method has proven to be very effective, and almost all would see its virtuosity in terms of teaching analytic skills rather than substance. The method has not had any serious competitors for awhile. The Harvard law school, where the method originated, has dominated the development of legal education for a century, proving the ...
- 265: Gun Control Violence In Schools Critique
- ... and all that do not need to be in the schools. Seems to me that the author has not really analyzed the whole issue from all angles. If he did then he would see that teaching about guns could promote guns. Leave the teaching of the firearms and other life lessons to the parents. The events that have occurred in the past few months to a year have stirred people emotions up. The American society is now trying to ...
- 266: Learning To Really Learn
- ... quality of the child's language in school determines the social development he/she can attain as an individual. 4. This self-competence makes for fewer dropouts by adolescents. 5. Listening can be improved through teaching and practice. Direct training helps to improve a person's learning ability by 40% and this training can be obtained by teaching it as a integral part of all that is taught in the classroom. 6. Listening and speaking helps to build concept of others. 7. Listening is the most widely used communication activity from both adult ...
- 267: Equality
- ... but also by banding together to show their strength. During the mid 1800's a small number of women begin their assault on, what were at the time considered, male-only jobs. Fields such as teaching, preaching, medicine, and law were all jobs domenated by men. Women had made some progress in the work force before the 1850's. In the mid nineteenth century women were the majority for grade school ... register a protest. After being hushed once and a half hour of debate she was finally allowed to speak her peace. Although nothing became of her first encounter with the women's movement, she quit teaching and went on to become one of the great leaders of the women's movement. Antoinette Brown was anther women that was not happy with the status quo of women in society. She started, in ...
- 268: A Childs Verdict
- ... child psychology. A childs atmosphere plays a major role in how they may be shaped which could include effecting their attitudes, actions and behaviors. This atmosphere entails a parents: treatment, restriction, caring and teaching of and to a child. It also includes interaction by their teachers, pupils and others, besides their parents. In the case of a boy only in elementary school named Robbie Mackessy from the novel, A ... in their learning process. On numerous occasions Robbie is exposed to sexual acts which have a negative effect on him as a child. For someone as young Robbie, these acts confused and scared him. Without teaching and guidance, these experiences can be very traumatic. As described by a next door neighbor, Mrs. Sheridan, after seeing him, He was so pale. He was scared
His little body was quivering (Hamilton, 367). Robbie ...
- 269: Ancient Celtic Religion
- ... which, they ascribed a peculiar virtue and sacredness. The discovery of it was an occasion of rejoicing and solemn worship. The Druids were the teachers of morality as well as of religion. Of their ethical teaching a valuable specimen is preserved in the Triads of the Welsh Bards, and from this we may gather that their views of moral rectitude were on the whole just, and that they held and inculcated many very noble and valuable principles of conduct. They were also the men of science and learning of their age and people. Their teaching was oral, and their literature (if such a word may be used in such a case) was preserved solely by tradition. But the Roman writers admit that "they paid much attention to the order and ...
- 270: Talcott Parsons
- ... as a biologist, Parsons felt out of place and transferred to economics and sociology. As he excelled in these fields, Parsons began studies in Europe, giving him a wide view on different societies. He began teaching at Harvard, and there he exposed his sociological thoughts. Although very controversial, Parsons' works had influences on all aspects of Sociology. He generally focused on social action and systems and believed that morality in social ... which he both admired, and noticed he had to make a change. So in 1931, Parsons became a member of Harvard's sociology department and launched his teachings in the new subject. During 1937, while teaching at Harvard, Talcott brought forth his first major work, The Structure of Social Action. Encyclopedia Britannica describes, "Parsons drew on elements from the work of several European writers...to develop a common systematic theory of ...
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