So one might wonder, what can we do to improve our education? ... In the Finnish education system, students receive a tuition free education. ... Imagine the states if this change were to come into fruition. ... " As I stated before, if a significant push in academics were to happen early then, given time, that generation of motivated students will pursue education. If we think about all of the children and teenagers who dropped out because they didn't receive enough attention or were not motivated enough to pursue college, certainly in this group there were individuals who at one po...

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From the day we are born until the day we die, our brains constantly seek out new stimuli. ... A place where they are free to learn about things they are interested in, outside of the normal curriculum. ... This would free the teacher to have conversations with students about anything they didn't. ... In our independent study class, we were pushed ahead by ourselves, since were interested in the subjects we chose. ... Like freestyle rapping, the real goal is to spontaneously create something interesting or that has not been done before, within the framework of the song. ...

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If the new law were passed it would be very beneficial to my personal situation. ... If we have after school activities past 6 P.M it will most likely be an inconvenience to our parents when we need rides home. ... Most of the teachers I know would like to get home at a reasonable hour meaning before 6 P.M. ... Many of these people would experience much easier lives if this law were passed. ... No one wants to live a hectic life, especially if it were to be caused by an after-school activity. ...

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I try to deal with the problem before the problem begins or gets out of hand. ... When a problem arises I, disucss the situation with the students involve seeing if we can come to a solution together. ... I' ll take away free class time or assign extra assignments. ... They were suspended for a couple of days and their parents were brought in for a conference. A week after they returned to school they were fighting again. ...

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Before you know it, the assignment is due next week and you have not even started the first chapter. ... The planning fallacy is "the tendency to overestimate how much we will be getting done and therefore how much free time we will have"" (Myers, 2013). ... What we are unaware of, and in return what causes us to make this planning error multiple times, is the fact that we are overly optimistic about our own abilities to complete a task. ... Once we do make an error in predicting the amount of time it will take us to complete a task, we typically fail to learn from our mistakes when a similar ...

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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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People fail to understand that education is the foundation upon which we build our future. ... When we don't have literacy we don't understand the different ordeals that are going on around us. ... Douglass was determined to learn at all costs, even if the consequences were severe. Before Douglass could read, his mistress taught him the alphabet but she had to stop because her husband forbade her from teaching him. ... In order to be free of the world's chains, we have to have knowledge. ...

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"We don't need no education" (Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall). ... Before joining the Army and before even procuring a first job, I remember very early on in a class at school, we typed a huge amount of commands and numbered lines into a computer. ... I really wish I could remember the type of machines we used in the class and what type of language we used to make those simple programs. ... Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Phar-Mor Video, and Chic-Filet were but a few. ... Travel, money, education, experience, rent-free living, I was sold. ...

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Some of them were really good teachers and I will remember them for all my life. However, some of them I didn't like so much and they were my nightmare. ... We called her "Miss Dictionary" and she was a main cause for our jokes. ... Asim, made a history class very pleasant, which I never liked before. ... If a student understands a subject, and feel free to express his or her opinion in the class, we can say that a teacher did a good job. ...

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Just being in that position were you have authority over so many people was new to me. Over the rest of the semester getting to know them and them getting too know we a relationship got way better. With the improvement of our relationship I felt that they were more open to my suggestions and my opinion. ... Baker for part of my grade nine visual arts and my grade ten visual Arts class, so we already had a good relationship. ... At the end of the class we would discuss where the students at in their projects and if they needed more time. ...

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I sigh and wonder why the school's administration requires the students to take a class that, if it were on the Internet, would delight Mirsky (creator of Mirsky's Worst of the Web), as yet another addition to his list of worthless sites. ... There was no way to know if the assignments given were ever going to be collected, or, if they were, if they would be graded. Still, in the second semester we covered the fundamentals of chemical equations, which was generally not a topic that was covered before junior year. ... A month before school reopened for the fall, I was called in to tal...

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There is always the other students that seemed like they were ready for Harvard in the second grade; but anyways, so we all arrived at graduation last summer. ... At last I was free from adolescent bondage, homework, and detention! ... So again the cycle of school and work began before I knew it. I had my entire future mapped out before July arrived. ... The first few weeks were lonely because I had no friends to spend any time with on campus. ...

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Her father, my grandfather was in the ranks of the Ethiopian military and decided it was most wise to flee the country before the rebels overthrew the dictator. ... My family would learn multiple languages and stay in multiple countries in Africa for four years before finally escaping to an over illustrated "promise land." ... My mom and family were able to overcome all of the hurdles that lay in their paths way and all now live lower middle class lives. ... But as we all know, things do not always turn out as expected. ... I want to learn until the day that I pass, Id like to be free restr...

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They were: my science class, the manner in which I came to take Spanish III in my junior year, and my experiences with high school basketball. ... There was no way to know if the assignments given were ever going to be picked up or, if they were, if they would be graded. Still, in the second half of school we covered the principles of chemical equations, which was not a topic that was covered before my junior year. ... A month before school reopened for the fall, I was called in to talk to him about a conflict with my scheduled classes. ... I became more organized to make up for having les...

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As teachers we must be willing to accept the challenges before us. ... We must be more to our students than just teachers; we should be mentors, counselors, and friends. We must bring out their full potential. ... I was pleased to hear that there were more initiatives from the state and city to recruit qualified individuals to become teachers. ... I also mentored and tutored during my free time and used my summer vacations to gain more experience working with children. ...

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We were very settled into our home and community. ... A short time before my father's death unfortunate death, my grandmother passed away. ... Thirdly, my mother enjoys her free time in the community. ...

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Classes were 45 minutes long. ... Students take a lot of subjects, but the subjects were already chosen; therefore, we couldn't pick which subjects we wanted to take. ... We were in different schools because in America there are 3 levels of schools. ... Our classes were almost an hour long, we had 30 minutes lunch and we also had a school bus, something that we never had to use before. ... Students in America are free to wear what they want to wear, they can come wearing a costume or something and no one would really care. ...

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High school is a "free" education, but college is not free and can be expensive. ... College means an opportunity to start from scratch, reinvent yourself, and be cooler than you were in high school. ... There is no chance to be somebody other than how they knew you from before. ... This can oftentimes mean who were popular in high school find them as unpopular and anonymous in college. ... High school life is where we learn on how to be better and correct our mistake that when we go to college, our preparation would make life and problems easier to handle....

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When I get home its about 7:00, so I have to eat, do homework and shower before I can go to bed. ... Just because we aren't in a classroom as long as others does not mean we learn any less. ... Based on the chart from Text A, we have the lowest amount of school days compared to the rest of the countries that were documented.(180 days) Which in turn shows why we may have lower SAT and standardized test scores; however Finland may have 10 more days of school than the United States, but they don't give homework! ... "Florida abandoned its $100 million-per-year extended day program ...

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Then before schoolhouses, children were educated in their homes by their parents or a nanny. ... My son went through the public school system for many years, and we even tried the charter schools. ... In my family we have completed lessons around a campfire during a family trip. ... In most schools there were budget cuts that had cut classes back, and even some schools were cutting recess time. ... A surprise that many don't know, online schooling is free; many school districts will pay for enrollment. ...

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In the executive elite school students have almost free reign over the course work. ... We as a society simply can't throw money at the public education system and expect it to get any better, we need to put some thought into how to best educate our youth to prepare them for the increasingly competitive global market. We need to implement a flexible curriculum and a method of teaching that fosters creativity and imagination in our children, like they do in the very best schools in America. ... If funding was equal and teaching methods were the same based on creativity and imagination...

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This is one example of the questions we ask ourselves when referring to one of the many discussed subjects related with education: the difference between working and non-working students to finance their own education. ... Working students have more limited free hours. ... I tried to have conversation but they were no good, even tough she tried, her eyes seemed hypnotized by the small round black inked letters emphasized on the white background of her blue covered note-books. ... Is it going to be bad for my diet to eat again after three hours before the last meal?" ... Another illustration o...

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