Dr. P. Cooper  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  167 views  |  Read Full

 

My interests in the relations obtaining between personal desires and the engagement with learning are traceable to my own experiences of returning to education as an adult. After leaving school at 16, with no expectation that I would ever go to university, I worked for 12 years in industry. I returned to education and enrolled at a university after becoming unemployed during the economic downturn of the early 1990s.

Susan Kruger  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  221 views  |  Read Full

 

If you read last week's article, you know we have had some big changes in our household with our first-grader starting a new school this week. So far, we are off to a good start! Last week, I only described one element of our challenges with the previous school. I chose to avoid getting off on other tangents, but there were other issues that led to our decision to switch schools.

Arthur Jackson Jr.  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  207 views  |  Read Full

 

Will we become a nation where a segment of our society is forever denied education? Will we become a nation of haves and have nots?

Scott F. Paradis  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  272 views  |  Read Full

 

Given to contrivance and convenience we reduce education to an equation of inputs and outputs - dollars committed to productivity achieved. Taxpayers contribute their apportioned tolls and make performance demands. Every rational assessment of our system however, identifies a bankrupt enterprise. We search for superman and race to nowhere, but now it is time we focus on the only viable solution to our educational dilemma: personal responsibility.

Sepideh Mirzaee  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  325 views  |  Read Full

 

The aim of this study is to consider the way of utilizing one subcategory of deictic expressions, social deixis, and its various kinds and also the consequences of cultural differences between English and Persian languages on using them, were analyzed by employing the contrastive procedure: Three types of comparisons were done. In order to do this study, approximately 10000 words (30 pages) from the beginning part of each novel and the translated version were chosen.

Diana Washington  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  281 views  |  Read Full

 

The purpose of education is very important, and it is also fairly obvious to most people who take the time to stop and think about it: education serves to provide information and training to people, young and old, that will help them throughout the course of their lives. Although this is fairly obvious, in this case as in many others it is very productive to refresh our memories regarding these basic facts so that we can be in a better position to make informed decisions about the best way to make the most out of the educational experience for ourselves...

Adewale Adedeji  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  213 views  |  Read Full

 

There are many definitions of education but in a simple way, education is an act or process of passing on or gaining general knowledge, building the ability to reason and judge, and generally training oneself or others mentally for matured life. Many underdeveloped countries today do not pay attention to the importance of education in the society and this has made most countries not to be developed.

Mark W. Medley  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  305 views  |  Read Full

 

In this next decade of the 21st Century, a good, well rounded education could be the difference between a developing future or a future dependent on low wage employment, and periods of unemployment. One reason the current boom in private and on-line education is one sector that continues to expand. What are the seven continuous trends in education?

Jeannette Webb  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  353 views  |  Read Full

 

As a college consultant, I get far more questions about extracurricular activities than about any other topic. Parents are concerned about their children's chances of getting in a good school or receiving scholarships. And, I must say their concerns are well grounded.

Mark Warhol  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  271 views  |  Read Full

 

The most important conversations you'll ever have in your life are the conversations you have with yourself. You may have taken communication courses in college, but why is it that the form of communication that has the greatest impact in our lives, intrapersonal communication, is overlooked?