...cave suggest about the nature of education? The allegory of the cave is supposed to be a metaphor for the world we are living in. That finding this truth or overall good is how people will be able to gain the most knowledge. Socrates is explaining to his student, Glaucon, how he believes it’s our own ignorance of goodness and truth that will prevent a man from gaining this nature of education. What Socrates fails to mention in my own opinion is how this allegory supports a role in the nature of education. In my essay I want to go over what my interpretations are of this allegory and how it’s structured to represent our learning throughout our life. This will lead to my argument explaining how irrelevant this metaphor is simply because it is an allegory. For my second argument I will mention how I disagree with Socrates views on the nature of our education. For the last part of my argument, I want to go over what I believe is also involved with the nature of our education, not being just the “Good”. I want to briefly go over what exactly this allegory represents to me. By establishing my understanding towards what the allegory means, I can hopefully strengthen my future points that I am making. It is obvious that Plato structured this allegory to represent the divided line that separates what we know from our senses and our mind. The allegory isn’t just four stages of the divided line but also four stages we go though as being human. You can take one person from each stage...
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...EDUCATION AND THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A GOOD EDUCATION Education is as important as the air we breathe. It is the most important possession a person must have. Education is beneficial in many aspect of life especially, personal and social it is the only possession that cannot be taken away from you. Education is important because it will open up the windows of opportunities. In this competitive world having a good education is as important as the air we breathe because it is our weapon to conquer the world. Education will help you grow as an individual because the more knowledge you have the better understanding you will have in any given problem that will come your way. It will give you self satisfaction and will boost your self confidence. As an individual I know it will help me in a lot of aspects in my life. It will give me a financial stability because I will be able to land a good job and a high paying salary. I will learn how to spend my money and will learn how to invest it wisely. The more education I have the more respect and acknowledgement I will get from people. Knowledge is really important that is why we need to take it seriously. It is the strong weapon you can have to conquer this complex world. If you have a good education nobody can fool you and you will not tolerate any mistreatment from people. It will give you a better view in life if you are well educated. In the social aspect of my life education will give me a better understanding on how to...
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...something that people desire but that is not necessary for survival • goods: the physical objects that someone produces • services: the actions or activities that one person performs for another • scarcity: the principle that limited amounts of goods and services are available to meet unlimited wants Chapter 1, Section 1 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 2 Key Terms, cont. • economics: the study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices • shortage: a situation in which consumers want more of a good or service than producers are willing to make available at particular prices • entrepreneur: a person who decides how to combine resources to create goods and services • factors of production: the resources that are used to make goods and services Chapter 1, Section 1 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 3 Key Terms, cont. • land: all natural resources used to produce goods and services • labor: the effort people devote to tasks for which they are paid • capital: any human-made resource that is used to produce other goods and services • physical capital: the human-made objects used to create other goods and services • human capital: the knowledge and skills a worker gains through education and experience Chapter 1, Section 1 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 4 Chapter 1, Section: What is Economics? EQ: How does scarcity force people to make economic choices? – Scarcity forces...
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...Moral Education His 324 –History of Education in America Rhonda Campbell July 19, 2010 How do we generate moral behavior? Perhaps in fear of spewing unwanted religious or philosophical dogma, public schools in America eschew a cognitive approach. Instead, schools take a behaviorist approach, and students learn to act in fear of punishment while hoping for reward. This reality is the result of an education system that serves a changing population with ever-evolving needs. To best appreciate this phenomenon, we need to consider significant developments in the history of education in America in light of moral education. Then, we must look at the current state of moral education in America. Currently, however, American teachers have little official incentive to engage in much discussion of morality with students. Yet, when we read about crime in our communities, watch a high-speed police chase, or hear the details of a school shooting, we cannot so easily shirk responsibility for assisting students’ moral growth. Parents and the wider family should hold the highest degree of responsibility in this matter. However, if they fail, we are perhaps the only barrier left between the students and potentially life-devastating decisions (Brimi, 2009). Historically, one of public education’s purposes in America has been the development of moral citizens. However, educators currently face more academic accountability due to No Child Left Behind. Consequently, teachers must strike...
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...“How do you know that the education you are receiving is positive or negative?” First of all, a school system education is easier to determine whether it is positive or negative. How good or bad a school is, is usually decided by two things; history and word of mouth. If the school has good records of alumni, then the next generations of the school are hoped to be as good and if the school has bad records of students, then the other generations of the school are believed to be as bad, even though not everyone is the same way as others. Word of mouth is quite similar. If more than one group of people talk about how good the school is or how bad the school is, a lot of other people will most likely trust the different sources of the same opinion. Another thing that would go into consideration are how the school represents itself and how the teachers teach. A good building of a school means that it consists of good materials to study with and professional teachers mean that the students are learning decently. Therefore, good schools mean good education. For example, I go to school in SPH. Learning materials are provided perfectly in SPH and all the teachers, students, and staffs are supportive in a way that I cannot explain in words. I am a better person every day since I came to the school. The teachers guide me and I don’t see any tension among the students. SPH also brings me to do good things, such as service outside of school to respect others. Apart from that, I think...
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...Name: Course: Date: Education in the modern world As the world becomes more civilized and connected, global competitiveness makes it the duty of every global citizen and government to reconcile the true meaning of education to the standards and practices applied in learning. Without this societal reflection, a country or person risks lagging behind as the world progresses. This paper seeks to understand education and its place in the 21st century society. The first step in this quest is to ask the question, what is education? There exist a myriad of definitions on education. Key to every definition is the transfer of knowledge, values and skills. This knowledge transfer requires an knowledgeable guide or tutor to impart what they know to a willing learner. This is a process of illumination for the learner. As Will Durant eloquently states, “Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance” (Durant). Every great kingdom throughout history has placed a premium on education. From the library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt to the depth of information on the internet, education remains at the heart of every successful society. Currently, modern formal education has largely failed to provide value to learners. The most common forms of modern formal education employ rote memorization. Knowledge imparted does not go beyond the testing stage. Another failure by modern learning institutions is their over emphasis on the academic aspects of education. These institutions forget that...
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...HIGHER EDUCATION It is inevitable that higher education is extremely valuable for individuals as they provide life time skills and qualities to being successful in life. It is the most essential investment a country can make in its people and its future development and growth. Higher education considered to be beneficial as it shapes the students future and career and provide them better work and open new opportunities for them to enlighten their future. However, in my views, it is not enough to get higher education, we also need to ensure that we are learning to make our future bright and to lead productive lives. It is important than ever to have a college education as it is related to various factors that contribute success in our life. Many people value higher education for monetary reasons, they believe higher education will allow them to find lucrative careers that have high salaries and many opportunities. Moreover, it also teaches us how to deal with a variety of other real-life situations by improving our problems solving skills and ability to communicate with other people to maintain personal relationships. The other important factor of higher education is that it helps us to interact better in a group which may benefit our career later on as it is an essential aspect of any type of work environment. It is my belief that the primary purpose of higher education is and should be the creation of prepared minds. The investment of government in higher education including...
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...Martin Luther king is a person who change the world by following his dream and make peace with the world and ending racism. Martin Luther King was person who ended racism and make all African American be free and do what white people can do like don't have to sit in the back of the bus no more, don't have to be slaves, they can go place where they couldn't. He made a long speech how ending racism and also made a riot where he got in trouble and got arrested. When Martin Luther King was he was playing with his friend until his mom came and told him to not play with him no more and he felt really bad and that's why he had a dream and the dream was to ending racism and he did. Then, Martin Luther king made another speech about how education is...
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...Education is an important thing for everyone in this world and everyone should get educated. From my prospective I think that education is not only by going to school, education can happen by a lot of ways. When your family teach you what you should do and how to do some things that’s education. A lot of people are going to school every day but they are not getting anything or they do still not understand a lot of things. I think that education has to have some rules and ways to send the message and the education that you want to send to the people that you are educating. So how can we make sure that we are getting a good education in our life? I guess the first thing that someone should do to get a good education is by choosing a good school. Choosing a school that is known by its students that get good grades and teachers that are very professional is a good way to make sure that you are getting a good education. A lot of countries have a bad or not so good education system and if someone is living in a country like that and he or she wants a good education maybe he or she should find another country to study at. A lot of people come to the US because the education system here is good and it’s better than a lot of countries. Another way to make sure that we get good education is us. I mean we should make sure that we study, do our homework and stay focused in class. If someone is going to school but he is not studying or keeping track of what is happening in class this...
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...English 101 13 June 2013 How Education Should Function: Many people, all over, ponder on the different views that roam the world pertaining to education and freedom. Every country has their individual educational systems functioning in different ways to best fit their beliefs on who is deemed eligible to be educated, and who should not receive an education. Other countries of this world also do not offer the rights to their citizens in which American citizen possess. In this country, the United States of America, having an education is a part of a person being free. In a free society, education should be of equal quality for every person while showing no discrimination, and educational institutions should provide the foundation of moral, and ethical knowledge for the students to learn how to become good citizens. Connections between education and freedom are not obscure. Frederick Douglass, of the eighteenth century, published his autobiography in which he writes the story of his life being born as an American slave. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass makes it clear “that education and slavery were incompatible with each other” (47). He also states, it was “almost an unpardonable offense to teach slaves to read” (Douglass 48). Basically coming to the conclusion, that only people whom were free were entitled to an education; since being educated made a person understand the irrationality of slavery, and understand freedom itself...
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...by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, in September 2009 at a school in Arlington, Virginia. The speech is about education and how important it is to this generation to have an education, if they want to succeed in the future. If everyone has some goals in life and a good education, it’s both good for the individuals, but also for the generation and the whole country. The intended audience of the speech is, of cause, the youngsters in the USA, because it’s them, who form the main part of the generation, who’s responsible for the future of the USA. Barack Obama, who is the speaker of the text, is talking on the behalf of the country in the speech. His purpose with the speech is to encourage the young people to take an education and to be responsible for themselves and the country. His intention is also to persuade the young ones to give priority to education, by being a role model to them. He identifies with the young ones by telling about how it was through his own education and about all the good and bad things about it. The youngsters need to encourage themselves, because their parents and teachers are only a part of it, and the students need to do the main part themselves. Obama addresses the audience, the youngsters, by using a lot of examples from his own life, or from other people, who has achieved their goals and a good education, in spite of challenges in their life and no support from their surroundings: “Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine...
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...people's knowledge, and ability to master the quality of education and learning ability, skill levels and educational institutions and to develop good quality and ability of personnel activity is used in the examination. So as a student take the exam is very normal thing that looks like people eat food. But different countries have different ideas for the purpose of students take exam. Such as, in some country exam just for help student to study, in another country exam is good way to test student who is good or bad student. Along with education become more and more popular and globalization, many people pay attention to exam and people want know more information about how examination effect students in higher education. From the research is studying of the examination different between China, America and Russia in higher education. In China, Chinese education is Exam-oriented education, which means to meet the entrance examination for the purpose of educational philosophy and education. It is use to test the quality of the school enrollment rate the level of education, teachers and students' academic achievement levels. It is a examination for the purpose of its educational model and test approach limits the students' ability into full play, training students to work hard to adapt to the requirements and social development. "In China, the test that determines your life"(Wong, 2014, p 62). On other word, in Chinese education system, examination is only way to test student who...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Education plays a vital role in our lives. It is important like our basic needs – food, clothes, shelter. It is through education where we can put our potentials in maximum use. It is a precious tool in our lives. It is our key to success. It opens doors of opportunities and serves as our guide to achieving our dreams. It is a preparation for our future roles. Without education, we cannot develop our skills and talents that will help us become successful in our respective careers. It is the only way where we can achieve our goals. According to Manali Oak, “Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops us in a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then, information cannot be converted into knowledge without the catalyst called education.” Information is everywhere. But it’s not enough that we just gain information. We need education for us to be able to understand and interpret it. Through education, we develop proper attitudes, values and behavior towards other people. We learn how to interact using good manners and appropriate conduct with the people around us. “The words ‘cultivate’ and ‘civilize’...
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...Theology, Turabian Format Liberty University Online My definition of a good education has always been graduating high school and an accredited college with a degree until I read Kohn’s article. It is true that high school and collegiate work can further you in life, but good grades and a degree alone do not in itself equate to a good education. A good education is not defined by pure knowledge or place of learning but rather the type of information taught that can be used throughout life in a meaningful and resourceful manner. “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life” (Proverbs 6:23, KJV). A good education is a conglomeration of many different things, so it cannot be just schooling. It cannot be defined only as excellent grades, seat time at school, memorization, or knowledge of useless information in preparing for life. A good education, in other words, cannot be defined as purely a formal education in itself. I am acquainted with people who are very intelligent and book smart, and have completed their collegiate time and degree, but still do not have the ability to utilize the information they have gleaned from various teachings in a classroom. Another false definition of a good education is just utilizing good common sense you may have been given. There must be a learning process involved in each situation to constitute an education. “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof...
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