The missing ingredient in education

by Jules Red

Education is an important subject, as our access to good education and our success with it can have a huge impact on the quality of our lives. There is a lot of snobbery about which subjects are more valuable than others....read more

by Julie Melville

Boards of Education take pride in student averages. Teachers are rated by the number of students who meet or exceed the expected average. The merit of a school is based, not on the number of students who are gainfully empl...read more

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by John Cargile

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama filed a complaint in a class-action lawsuit last week charging Monroe County school officials with subjecting African American students at Monroeville Junior High ...read more

by Vincent Able

Little boy Lyle in 1st grade: Look what I learned today! In 2nd grade: Yes, school was fun today! In 3rd grade: We learned handwriting a new letter today. 4th grade: Yeah, I learned some stuff in school today. 5th: Yeah I ...read more

by E.M.Robinson

The missing ingredient in education is the curriculum component of problem-solving skills. Students need a learning environment that provides opportunities for students to understand an integrated curriculum,to think for t...read more

by Scott Desmond

Music to Educator's Ears For the past four years I have been extremely active in my high school choir. Chorus, along with the other musical arts, is an elective course at Enfield High School. Based upon my own personal ...read more

by Anthony Saliba

The main missing ingredient in education is 'education' itself, at least in those places where education means stifling initiatives and blocking learners from the acquisition of skills and knowledge to empower them with ad...read more

by Excalibur Snape

The love and believe in what one does..... The teachers don't want to be there anymore then the students. They are not passionate at what they are doing and it shows. Some teachers are just hanging in there until the...read more

by Karyn Burchall

Education is not just something we receive through attending school, college, university or any other educational facility. Our education starts the day we are born and continues until the day we die. We learn because we a...read more

by James Burns

Character is Everything: What is Compliance When I first started talking about the quality of compliance I used the word obedience. I got such a negative reaction from teachers and parents that I had to change the name ...read more

by Terry Marsh

The education of our children and young adults is essential to the future of resolving problems that currently exist in our world. We are missing the mark as a society when only 70 percent of eligible high schools students...read more

by edward p mcclenahan

Compassion, hope to matriculate, a little space, love. The missing ingredient in education is education. No longer our the children of the future being taught to care, they are being trained to kill. Dog eat dog world, ...read more

by J Buzzard

Different By Design Pink Floyd said, "We don't need no education." However, judging by their grammatical error, I disagree. We need both education and quality educators, but not at the expense of God. Though I have only...read more

by Joan Inong

Much of today's education is lacking in one of the fundamental concepts of education itself. Education should mean an expansion of one's knowledge, and this expansion is achieved through the sharing of knowledge and the pa...read more

by Ms. Inge

I must say that I am proud to have grown up in the late 60's and early 70's when education meant learning. As a little girl I remember always looking forward to going to school. I wanted to be the best writer in my Engli...read more

by Ann Johnstone

The apprenticeship style of learning appears to be no longer a valid component of education. There was a time when the education of children would be primarily via parents and mentors, those entrusted with the awesome tas...read more

by Anne Robey

I just finished teaching a communication course in a college that included nine gifted high school students. Although they have been frequently reminded how smart and special they are, I was shocked at their lack of critic...read more

by Tammy Chavez-Hill

Written by Tammy Chavez-Hill August 2007 Submitting this article for publication I can be reached at: tchillout@yahoo.com 214-538-0948 214-999-6050 The Challenge of ...read more

by Anjalika Avants

A Handshake into Diversity Diversity is clearly one of today's most important issues. It is currently a huge subject in our personal lives, at our schools, at work, and life out there in the real world. Education in wor...read more

by Ann Nurse

The Missing Ingredient in Education The missing ingredient in education is something that has developed since the government took prayer of the schoolhouse. There has been a decline in the academic achievements of our s...read more