Instead of writing, we communicate primarily through speech, pictures, and symbols. We must use pictures to communicate in situations where we are not using our verbal capabilities. ... The oral tradition, which was used in the days before people were literate, is now essential to the continuation of knowledge to our children. ... History is difficult to teach, and after 100 years of not having textbooks or materials to refer to, it is almost impossible to remember things as they were taught to our ancestors before the banishment of writing. ... Newspaper and magazine ads, flyers, and tele...

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In Where Nests the Water Hen, the government does exactly this when Luzina receives a letter from the government saying, "It had decreed compulsory schooling before there were enough schools for all the children or roads for them to reach what schools were there."... Due to the importance of education, the government should provide education for free. ... This is why a government should provide it for free. If education was not free, then only the people who could afford an education could go. ... This service should be provided to everyone for free and should be easily accessible as seen in...

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Krista Kiuru, Finland´s minister of education, said on an interview with "The Atlantic" in 2014: We used to have a system which was really unequal. [...]We decided in the 1960s that we would provide a free quality education to all. Even universities are free of charge. ... We don't know what our kids will turn out like-we can't know if one first-grader will become a famous composer, or another a famous scientist. ... Even if we don't have oil or minerals or any other natural resources, well, we think human capital is also a valuable resource. ... Before the meeting,...

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Education should be provided to everyone, free of charge, and free of discriminations. ... Although free, it does not come without distractions. ... The findings of this commission were that, compared with other industrialized nations, our education system is grossly inadequate in meeting the standards of education that many other countries have developed. ... Combined with this is the fact that we have lowered our expectations in these areas, thus we are not providing an equal or quality education to all students across the country. ... This improves social skills, which stated before, will i...

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Students are evaluated if any assistive technology needed to be used in the classroom before they are allowed to purchase assistive technology through their IEP. ... It is easier for us to remember difficult information if we can make a connection between images and the materials that we want to memorize. ... The more often we use computers, the higher scores we get intask-switching test, and this association was the strongest in adults with lower general cognitive ability. ... Given that, if all teachers were able to provide assistance to students in using technology in an appropriate way, te...

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With this subsequent knowledge, we were then able to break these categories down into large numbers of sub-categories, each of which could be addressed and managed in their own way Meadmore suggests that the important issue arising from this is that people wereno longer part of an unknown and unknowable mob?. ... As before, the same concepts of knowledge and differentiation were now set to task on categorising and sub-categorising the mind, and assessing such processes asintelligence, aptitude, motivation, mental organization, creativity, morale, memory, attention span, critical reas...

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As for the second reason, kids are jumping into the professional sports realm before their time because of a systemic problem occurring in the inner-city schools. ... The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. ... That team consisted of six seniors, three juniors, and the remaining were underclassmen. ... Only one of those players was drafted and he was later released before he played a single professional game. ... Our institutions of learning have been developed by a free society in order to educate and prepar...

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Japan was a feudal nation before it rapidly modernized itself in the 19th century. ... Monks and priests were the first teachers in these early schools. By the end of the Tokugawa period in the mid-nineteenth century there was a literacy rate of 50 percent for boys and about 20 for girls even though only a small percentage of the population is said to have attended school before the reformation took place (Cleaver 205). ... These reforms made elementary and secondary schools free for both males and females, and by 1900 were made compulsory. ... In 1968-1969 there were campus disputes by st...

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Because the apartheid legislation was leading to a society where blacks were seen inferior while whites were seen superior. ... Namely they had segregated neighborhoods, black people were forcibly removed from their homes and were put in a separated area from whites. ... Earlier, before the Bantu system was legislated in the country, many African schools were maintaining by different promoters and by some state help. ... But after Bantu educational system took place in the country, the promoters chose to terminate these schools, because the system they had before was not working anymore. ... T...

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At its infancy, televisions were very large and bulky. The images were pixelated and very unclear. ... Now we have high definition, 3D, and even touch screen televisions. ... He says, 'We embrace it . . . ... There were several disruptive innovations that was part of Hinckley's plan. ...

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We believe that it is important that children know about science and literature but we cannot say exactly why. ... Inexorably we cultivate, treat, produce and school the world out of existence. (Illich 1971) We are consuming education at a more rapid rate than at any time since we started counting degrees, and families are going further and further into debt to fund education for children.. No matter what type of education we consume, there is no guarantee that we have actually learned it, despite tests passed and degrees earned.. ... (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 80) 62% of those in the h...

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Suno is ready to apply for college, but before he goes into college, he must pass the entrance exams for his college. ... In the speech Obama mentioned that education will always be needed regardless of what we wish to do in life after school. ...

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