*Freire suggests in The Banking Concept of Education that the teacher-student relationship nowadays, inside or outside the school, appears to be more like a narration practice, which means the teacher only focuses on how many given facts the students can memorize. ... Not until my first college history class had I known that history itself could be so "alive." ... During the discussions, the teacher and the students thoroughly practiced the so-called "reversible learning" - learning from one another, which harmonized the contradicting ideas among the teacher and the students. ... Therefore as ...

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The essence of the Male High School Mission Statement is a testimony that each person should strive to reach whether they're a student at Male or not. ... The structured environment I have learned to live in over the past four years has given me a tremendous advantage in my preparation for college. I have looked heavily into the work required in a typical college, and the critical thinking skills, problem-solving practice, and communication expertise have set me on the right path for continued success in the college arena. By applying these tenets of the mission statement to all facet of...

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Despite the fact that learning in a collectivist culture helps students to become capable and strong human-beings, the human experience is not only about learning how to earn a living but it is about learning how to be live an informed and involved citizen, how to communicate effectively, how to understand other cultures and people, and how to think and reflect from the experience itself. The writer effectively uses tone as a rhetorical strategy (ethos) to emphasize the fundamental political conflict that exist in America to educate every students that the way we measure integrity will determ...

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Percy states, that the student should know that he has a responsibility of understanding the specimen, i.e. the dogfish, by rescuing it from its educational package. ... For there is nothing the educator can do to provide for this need of the student. Every thing the educator does only succeeds in becoming for the student, part of the educational package." But Percy clarifies instantly saying that the educator can be, not an entrepreneur of creating the package, but a helper of the student in becoming a sovereign individual, not a consumer of experience. Virginia Woolf draws on the same asp...

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In the year 2014 people who have had a complete college education made 98% more money an hour on average in the United States (New York Times). ... Others feel that it should be more of an open relationship, where the students can comfortably learn from the teacher while the teachers can also learn from the students. The ideal teacher-student relationship should be a two sided one. ... From Miller's perspective, it is more beneficial to a student when he or she is able to comment on a subject and learn through discussion, in a way that will help students better understand information in t...

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The second aspect that may affect children's education is the practice of "standardized testing," whether it is to judge a child's acceptability to advance a grade, or their qualification as a college applicant, is anything but a standard issue. For the educational system standardized testing is appealing but it measures students by a common yardstick, which should not exist. ... A student is not a number nor a grade. ...

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Harry Frankfurt came up with the idea that the "essence of man lies in will" and how it is important for a person to have second-order volitions. The will is the prime connection between a man's actions and his desires, but reason also plays a role as a tool in sorting through those desires. According to Hume, reason can be an influence, but it can never influence any action of the will. Even though rational thinking through desires could be a faculty that a person could use, the will is the ultimate decider in a person's actions and is truly the basic component of man. ...

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A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. "Welcome back students, how was everyone's summer?" Mr...

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