One of the biggest riddles of the human being is the brain. How do our minds work, and what makes them work best? We are able to process and store large amounts of information, and then reason with it. Since the days of Ancient Greece the Western World has sought to institutionalize the learning ...

Teaching evolution in schools is a highly debated issue between science and religion. In Kansas, the State Board of Education has decided to de-emphasize evolution in favor of the creation story. Throughout the science community, it is believed that evolution should be taught in school because of ...

The Path to a Career A man named Thomas Carlyle once said, ABlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.@ I couldn=t agree more. In Kindergarten I thought I knew what I wanted to be for the rest of my life. How wrong I was. Over the years my career interests have chan...

A Personal Experience"We are going to have a quiz tomorrow," my Biology teacher said on the first day of school. "What's a quiz?" I whispered to my sister. "I don't know," she replied. Many things, including this incident, made my first week in this country a very remarkable and funny experience. Th...

Education TodayEducation today isn't quiet what I would like it to be; although it is improving if I was in power I think I would make a few changes. In high school there are certain classes that are mandatory for an individual to graduate history, chemistry and biology are a couple. Now for an indi...

Students who are preparing for graduation and expecting a degree in Elementary Education should have an accurate idea on what is meant to be a teacher. Of course, it all depends on what perspective you are looking in. Most students who are engaging in becoming a teacher have specific ideas on how ...

Dear Principal Scott: It is a pleasure to be writing you, because I am able to tell you how I feel about your school. I am Arthur P. H, and I am a 17 year old student who attends your school. My likes about the school are that I was able to be around all my good friends and was able to meet some ...

Do you think single sex teaching is effective? Why would anyone want to go to an all boys' schools? Can you imagine school without girls, cheer leaders, and gossiping about girls? We may think about this and decide there are no advantages to an all boys' school, but in reality, single sex ...

Laird Harrison, in "A Classroom in Which You Can Speak Your Mind," believes schools should separate boys and girls. Laird Harrison said that even though a single-sex education might not be an optimum decision to help "every distracted student," it is considered a good solution fo...

Empahsizing Achievement In all schools alike, there is an emphasis placed on student leadership, success, and achievement. Children are repeatedly told from elementary school through college, that with hard work and dedication anything is possible and they have the potential for greatness. This no...

A question concerning my future educational plans strikes close to my heart. I have spent countless hours pouring over the different college guide books, speaking to admissions officers who visited my school, and discussing the subject with my family and friends. Am I interested in the traditions of...

The saying, "Education is the key to success," is often used to encourage young students to attend primary and secondary education in order to succeed in the future. Ever since we were old enough to attend kindergarten, the importance of earning an education has always been emphasized. Af...

"Bill", a voice said fearfully, "Turn on your television; a plane has crashed into The World Trade Center." All the students in my high school anatomy class glanced up to see who it was. Mr. Crockett, a biology teacher on his conference hour, had come into the room to tell us ...

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and Go...

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education," (Mark Twain). This, coming from arguably one of the best writers in western literature, is saying that education and schooling are two very different and separate things. The way he words this, he is implying that his education ...

Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of the most compelling education theories I have ever read. After reading it the first time my first reaction was to compare all the teachers, I had from nursery to my college years. I asked myself who among my teachers were banking method te...

Living in a society where technology is virtually unavoidable, it is inevitable that tasks that have been done in the past will need to be altered in order to accommodate the fast-paced, technologically enhanced world that we live in. Our every day tasks have changed in one way or another due to te...

Lets Play Monopoly; Go Straight to Jail As readers of the English language, we often find ourselves analyzing the texts of professional writers. Many a thought can always be had after reading any text, but essays especially. While reading Croissant's essay Can This Campus Be Bought? Comme...

Impressive math and science skills, as well as a good problem solving mind are just a fewof the necessities of the study of engineering. One must put his best foot forward,attempting to render a guess often in life but as an engineer you have to do this scientificdance on a daily basis. Engineering...

Through the thirteen years of public school, from Kindergarten to Twelfth grade, the purpose is to prepare a child to enter the real world and to live successfully as possible. Elementary school is only a stepping-stone to Middle School and High School, and serves only to allow a child to mature. It...

As a student studying to be a teacher, I have found myself to be concerned and interested how children feel about education and coming to school. Being the oldest of four children I have been able to watch and see the differences that have been made in schools over the years. My concerns first bega...

Do you know anything about the learning styles of Whole Language and Phonics? Whole Language envoles the full process of reading, writing and speaking. Phonics is more like a game, where you match sounds with letters and that is supposed to make learning fun. There is a lot of Web sites filled wi...

When I visited Berry College, one of the first things that I learned was MarthaBerry's mission for her students - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands. The ladyin the admissions office who welcomed us to Berry beamed as she told me how almost ahundred years later this mission is still the...

A few weekends ago I was talking to a relative of mine who happens to teach music at the local elementary school in my hometown. We were discussing her students and how the year was going for her so far. She had nothing but positive things to say about the children, however I could tell that somethi...

There is a Problem with Having Cable Television on College Campuses Eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, walking through the brightly lit halls, many doors wide open in a dormitory complex on the campus of Bowling Green State University, one can see that the only light that emerges from the open d...