For the educational system standardized testing is appealing but it measures students by a common yardstick, which should not exist. ... It does not make sense to test everyone the same and to expect everyone to do the same. ... There are abounding aspects that this kind of tests cannot measure. "The modern testing movement came out of the effort at the turn of the last century...to ascertain society's 'mental defectives' and sort them from those of superior intelligence who would occupy society's elite strata" (Sacks 2010). ... Physiologists made an experiment t...

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There are a lot of surprising and sometimes difficult things that impresses when you arrived in a country you have never been before. The situations such as meeting the people, without knowing the language they speak, or filling out the application for the college, were unforgettable and new exper...

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The thick feeling of anxiety, stirred together with overwhelming confusion, and finally topped off with a sprinkle of fear all rush to one's consciousness to test whether or not one is able to withstand the spice of life experienced in adolescence. ... Each one molds you and tests your character in the heat of the pot, but what is important is how we come out of this long and hard process, what we learn through it, and what will stay with us for the rest of our lives. ...

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Integrative thinking is about testing and expanding our own "lens" (or "reality-model", as Martin calls it) by comparing and contrasting it with the lenses of the people around us, constantly seeking new, better alternatives to all.  ...

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The theory of Raskolnikov, which suggests the existence of superior beings that possess the right and the power to transgress moral and written law to ultimately meet their means, eventually drives him to commit the crime and test his theory. ...

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Over the course of many years in the education system, along with the help of Pablo Freire's The "Banking" Concept of Education, it is becoming more noticeable that students have suffered from narration sickness and loss of creativity. The ability to be creative dies off in the classroom when the s...

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Education is defined as "the act of acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and preparing oneself intellectually for a mature life." Society would collapse if people did not go to school to become educated. Not one person would be smart enough to sit in a leadin...

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Today we have a unique opportunity to have a conversation with the founder of the psychoanalytic thought, the most frequently cited psychologist of the 20th century, and one of the great geniuses in human history whose name stands in a raw with those of Darwin and Einstein - Sigmund Freud. This Grea...

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