Students enter college to prepare their future life. However, depending on their characteristics, the ways colleges teach their students to prepare their futures are different. Technical colleges or business colleges\' missions are quite straightforward. They are to provide job-based education to ...

The \"reintroduction\" to the arts in the curriculum has been a slow process with many detours along the way. It has also been compared to Gardner\'s theory of multiple intelligences in this way: \"Three important truths are woven together in Gardner\'s characteristically perceptive trope. First is ...

On Friday afternoon, Penelope Shelley sat in the school cloakroom waiting for the other children to go home. It was one of her 'Plans to Make Life Easier'. If she was out by the school gates at the end of the day, the other children saw her. It was easier to sit in the cloakroom until they were go...

Philosophy Paper Learning is a lifelong natural activity. Environment plays a vital role in our education. Two stages in childhood can be distinguished: the first, taking place within the family or nursery school; the second, in elementary school, when the child, beginning to leave the family ci...

What are the main goals of socialization in preparatory and boarding schools described in Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools? The elite of a nation desire to perpetuate themselves, and their values, and the institutional codes of behavior that will enable them to stay in power...

On Classrooms, With and Without ComputersClifford Stoll's essay about computers replacing teachers and hands on experiences as a means for education is filled with his passion for experiencing nature with all of the senses we humans were born with. He writes of feeling the gooshiness of an octopus,...

Coursebooks are considered a very important element in teaching languages. 'Using coursebooks appropriately is an art which becomes clearer with experience' (Harmer(b) 306). Rationale for using coursebooks Coursebooks play a major role in the classroom. They work as a learning reso...

The national curriculum has been criticized and continually revised since its inception in 1988. Brought about by the governmental pressures away from comprehensive and toward the marketplace, the national curriculum was met with immediate criticism. The national curriculum was extensively modifie...

Quality-oriented Education The National Conference on Education, the third of its kind since China began its reform and opening policies in the late 1970s, was hosted in Beijing in June by the central government and the State Council. It endorsed a blueprint for promot...

WHAT ARE SCHOOLS FOR?School an institution, a building, a safe haven, and a learning place bursting with education to teach our young people. With teachers who are devoting their entire life into providing a sound foundation and opening new horizons to broaden their minds with a world of knowledge....

The big controversy in education today is the way children are taught. Many of the same arguments that are made regarding what is taught can also be made regarding how it is taught. Theories of educational psychology are attempts to describe how people behave in satisfying their physical and psychol...

The big controversy in education today is the way children are taught. Many of the same arguments that are made regarding what is taught can also be made regarding how it is taught. Theories of educational psychology are attempts to describe how people behave in satisfying their physical and psychol...

Should the performing arts receive equal as sports? The performing arts have been proven to increase a child's mind. Yet sports keep the mind and body strong. This is a debate that has being going on for the past 20 years. On whether funding should be used to fund sports or the performing arts. ...

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...

The curriculum framework of historyaE"social science for kindergarten throughgrade twelve is an effort to strengthen education system by building on thebest practices contained within previous frameworks. The revised frameworkfocuses on the chronological study of history. Placed in its geog...

Although drama is a process we encounter daily through TV, cinema, theatre etc. it is not something the average person is consciously aware of, the fact that we are surrounded by it at all times may account for this passive attitude towards it, this type of performance drama (as found in television ...