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…The question we all asked in school, or at least wanted to, was, "who came up with the idea of an education?" Admit it. There was probably a point in every class where you wondered who had the idea of making us wake up early, go to class and suffer…

…Alternative Education Alternative education caters to multifarious groups of students or unprofessional classified according to their needs and circumstances in life. Alternative education programs were designed because of pressures from concerned…

…Jo Smith Differences in Education         There are many differences and similarities in education in Greece and The United States of America today. The differences, which there are many of, are focused on the different ideas of what…

…EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Most countries try to invest more and more money in education. It is known that education is a part of research and that research is probably one of the most profitable part…

…Immersion or Bilingual Education: Is One Superior? The Problem Nationwide, about 3.5 million public school students do not know English well enough to succeed in a regular classroom. In the early twentieth century, such children would have…

…What is the value of a college education? I believe that everyone has a different answer to this question, because everyone has different reasons for returning to school. Some people want their degree to get them a better job, while others have sought…

…The Purpose of Education The purpose of our modern education: The delicate tools necessary for our intellectual workshop are achieved by schooling. I suspect that our best tools are realized rather automatically, but if there is to be outside…

…“The Educated Man” Period 2 John Henry Newman, the author of the essay entitled “The Educated Man” begins his essay in a way that was very contradictory to his times. He opens his essay boldly declaring that “A University is not a birthplace…

…China has a long and rich cultural tradition in which education has played a major role. In 124 BC the first university was established for training prospective bureaucrats in Confucian learning and the Chinese classics. Only members of the upper class…

…In chapter seven of Democracy and Education, Dewey states that education differs from community to community. “To say that education is a social function, securing direction and development in the immature through their participation in the life…