Gymnasium Essays

  • Finland: The World´s Best Education System

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    Education differs from one country to another because every country possesses its own system of education. However, it is commonly believed that Finland has the world’s best education system (Gamerman,2008). So, its education system differs in many ways from the other countries like the one in Germany. The Finnish education system consists of basic education, upper secondary and higher education (Vossensteyn,2008) whereas German education system consists of primary education, secondary education

  • My Family Research Paper

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    Everything changed when I was 6 ½. My family has been through many changes. We were plucked from our home in Živinice, Bosnia and transported to a small crowded apartment in Orsoy, Germany. Bojan Hadzic was born on March 1986 in Tuzla, Bosnia. Growing up, Bojan was raised by his grandmother whilst his father worked as a Sport Teacher and his mother - a doctor. …years after Bojan was born his little brother was born and together as a family they grew up in a small village in Živinice, Bosnia and

  • My Likes and Dislikes of Athenian Education

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    My Likes and Dislikes of Athenian Education In this assignment I am going to be discussing what I would like and dislike about Athenian education. Firstly I am going to discuss an Athenian girls education because there is quite little of it. Girls didn't go to school, they stayed at home with their mothers so they never learnt how to read or write. At home they would learn how to run the household and keep everything tidy. They would be taught how to do the cooking, spinning, weaving and

  • Effects of Poverty in Schools

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    A child miseducated is a child lost. As we have evolved into a mostly efficient country, we still have obstacles regarding education. According to Lucy Hart, students of lower economic statuses often face additional problems like resources, learning conditions, and poor motivation that negatively affects their academic performance. Families with lower incomes struggle with providing academic support for their children. They have limited time and financial resources, making it hard to create a good

  • Hunger of Memory

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    In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez situates his individual experiences with education in such a way as to expose what he sees as the fallacious logic behind bilingual education and affirmative action. He uses arguments to propagate the systematic problems with such programs. His autobiography explains in great detail the entangling problems all American children face by instituting bilingual programs and affirmative action endorsements. Bilingual education offers a completely different world

  • There Should be a Uniform System of Education in America

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    There should be a uniform system of education in a country Uniform system of education means that the level of education must be same for everyone in a country. Everyone in a country must be given equal opportunities for getting high education. There should be no concept of various systems of education. For example Madrassa school system; Government school system; Private school education system and British education system. I totally agree with the topic that there should be uniform system of education

  • Education and Legal Status

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    Should a child be allowed to get an education despite his/her legal status? Three years ago, I witnessed an incident where a child was denied access to a local school because she didn’t have the relevant document needed by the school for registration. She was only nine when she migrated along with her parents to the Bahamas and her dream was to get into a primary school as soon as possible in order to pick up the necessary education needed to proceed to the next level, since she didn’t had the opportunity

  • Colleges and Modern Society

    1514 Words  | 4 Pages

    The importance and benefits of Post Secondary Education (PSE) cannot be disputed. Education opens the door to more employment opportunities and greater personal fulfilment for many people. An educated and skilled workforce supports and sustains the economy and benefits society as a whole. However, there is a growing crisis faced by colleges in the delivery of post secondary education (PSE) that simply cannot be ignored. The original mandate of the Colleges, envisioned back in 1965 by then

  • Students Deserve A College Tuition

    3262 Words  | 7 Pages

    Think about this: a straight F student with a family that has a sufficient amount of money. This student gets to go to the best college that their family’s money can buy, which will probably go to waste on partying. Now compare that to a straight A student, living in a too-small temporary place, and no way to pay the bills. This student is everything a college could dream of having, and they actually care about their education. Sadly enough, though, they will never go because how can someone possibly

  • The Power of the Pen

    1359 Words  | 3 Pages

    Take a second and imagine your life without an education, not even enough to learn how to read or write. What is left? Can you imagine a future for yourself, nonetheless aspire to one? I know that I would be nothing without my education, since it is my most valuable possession in life, and I would not be dreaming nearly as big as I am now, at least not realistically. Now that you have been deprived of something so valuable, watched as it was stolen from you, what are you going to do about it? Are

  • Grade Inflation Essay

    2129 Words  | 5 Pages

    In 1960 to 2014 the average GPA of students raised from a 2.4 to 3.0. This change is known as grade inflation, the idea that grades continue to rise from where they have been in the past without evidence of increased intelligence. Inflation is a word that is typically followed by a negative statement. With these two words together we can see how this could be viewed negatively. However, most of today’s society is oblivious to how relevant grade inflation is in our society. Students have become accustom

  • The Value Of Education: The Importance Of College Education

    1188 Words  | 3 Pages

    Education is such a thing that is much more valuable than any other worldly materials. It is the gateway to the knowledge of life and the way of living it. When talking about gaining an education, people can get it from two ways either by experience or by learning in educational institute such as a college. Experience happens naturally, but learning in college requires voluntary action. Everyone has his or her own opinion about college education. Many experts have shown their interests in this subject

  • Improve Education In Chile

    958 Words  | 2 Pages

    I'm an advisor in the international council of education presenting some important points that could help to improve the education In Chile, informing this to the current president of this country, Michelle Bachelet, with the intention of talking about concrete proposals to increase the quality of the education. The recovery of democracy in Chile brought with it the implementation of public policies that would help revert the situation practiced in the period of the dictatorship where it existed

  • CEP

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    I would have to say that the most challenging classroom experience would be the comprehensive examination that I took to complete my Master Degree of Higher Education at the University of Oklahoma. I experienced a lot of anxiety for the test because I was not sure what kind of questions were going to be asked on this examination. I went to a training seminar for this written comprehensive exam and was able to obtain a study guide from a classmate of mine in my Research Methods course which is a core

  • An Analysis Of Tough's 'College Conundrum'

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    Tough depicts the college conundrum as a prevalent matter in America’s higher education system, and investigates the cause of this national phenomenon. He describes the college conundrum when he states, “Why are so many American students dropping out of college just as a college degree has become so valuable and just as young people in the rest of the world have begun to graduate in such remarkable numbers?” (Tough 150). He illustrates the disturbing trend of an exponential growth in college dropouts

  • Gender Discrimination In The Workplace Case Study

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    Anastasia Engebretson was a typical college graduate, ready to join the workforce. Anastasia graduated university with a bachelor’s degree in physics, and like many new graduates, she was glad to begin to work in her area of study. She began working as a technician, but soon found out that she was being paid significantly less than men at her workplace who were less skilled and less educated than her. Few people at work expected Anastasia to be as capable as her male coworkers, and she recalls being

  • Trinidad And Tobago Education

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    Trinidad and Tobago’s education system reflects the country’s British colonial past through its current school structure. Following their conquest, the British remodeled the Caribbean school system after their own. Are Girls Treated Equally and Fairly? Boys and girls are treated equally and fairly. In fact, all students are expected to perform well during school and they are given an equal opportunity to excel. There are also alternatives for students who are having challenges in traditional academia

  • Andrew Hacker/Andrew Dreifus's Are Colleges Worth The Price Of Admission?

    1103 Words  | 3 Pages

    In my family, I was always expected to go to college right after high school, but I didn’t know it was going to be expensive. College tuition is very expensive, and graduating with debt is becoming highly common nowadays. The two essays I chose for this paper are Andrew Hacker/Claudia Dreifus’s “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission”?, and Kevin Carey’s “Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges”?. Because they have similar messages that they both are trying to inform us about. But

  • The Benefits Of College Scholarships

    1006 Words  | 3 Pages

    After grants, students’ biggest hopes can be to receive scholarships, but large scholarships are rare and difficult to acquire. Full scholarships are almost impossible to receive and smaller scholarships seldom cover enough of the cost of college for that college to be an affordable option. Even if one is valedictorian in high school and receives superb SAT/ACT scores, a helpful scholarship is not guaranteed and they may be forced to live at home and attend the neighborhood college instead of attending

  • Reflection About Education In China

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    China and the United States have many cultural differences such as diet, family, thinking, but education is more closely with me as a student, so I find some different culture scenes about education while I am studying in college in the United Stated. In China, When children are at the age, parents prefer their kids go to public school than the public school, even for college. The reason is the environment of the private school such as the Academy, the competition, the choice of classes, and the