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Education is not about facts; education is about knowledge, the application of information, and the exchange of ideas. Education can be formal (from school), or informal (from tv shows, books, friends, or the et cetera). I’d rather not call school ineffective, as I am an education major, but to be honest - what we are doing isn’t working. Traditionally, it is taught that if one goes to school and works hard - one will succeed. However, that is partially wrong - there is no single path to success. My definition of education is inspired by my experience translating the song “Where is the Love” by The Black Eyed Peas. Malcolm X once said while in prison, “the best thing I could do was to get hold of a dictionary -- to study, to learn some words.” The way he says it can be a little deceiving; it seems almost as if Malcolm X just innocently wants to learn some words. X, however, didn’t just want to learn the meanings of these words - he wanted to learn how to use the words. X’s experience is similar to mine while interpreting the song; before I was able to translate the song, I had to learn what the song meant. American Sign Language is unique in that it is about expressing an emotion and a concept, so every sign can take on its own inflection. Because ASL is about the big picture, I could not translate the song word for word, instead - I had to look at it as a whole and read about what the writers were feeling while making the song. This is the knowledge; the who, the what, the where, the when, the why, and the how. Translating a song involves a certain amount of interpretation; it isn’t just about what the writer intended. Translating a song is about how I, as the listener, feel about the song, and what the song makes m... ... middle of paper ... ... a quote from Fran Lebowitz, in its entirety, it is: “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” I take this quote to mean that one can’t just ‘plug in’ information to get the answers to one’s problems in life. Schools teach students knowledge, but they hardly ever teach them how to apply what they have learned to their lives, which is one of the faults with schools. This is similar to just knowing facts; knowing only facts is like having raw meat, but no way to cook it! It is important to know things, but we must also be able to apply this knowledge. Schools should be encouraging students to have life experiences, because that is how one learn to actually use what is learned. Schools give a basic education, but there is much more to be learned outside of school - and what is learned outside of school is a major factor in deciding success.
Education is horrible, because people can't have interests. They just listen, not learn. 1.b. To be able to use the. I do not think I'd like to live in this society because it does not allow free thinking, or anything else that makes humans the way they are. There was nothing to differentiate people, nothing to like or dislike about each other.
Schools are the basic foundation of knowledge, which is imparted to children. They give a chance for children to gain knowledge in various fields such as humanity, literature, history, mathematics and science. By obtaining knowledge, they are in a better position to know the world around them. A school is a society where faith and other values are developed. Schools also play an important role in a democratic social set up. Students of today are the citizens of tomorrow. Schools are the backbone of a society, where children interact with other children and develop certain social skills. Education in schools opens doors to various opportunities that would not be possible if it had not been for the knowledge one gained at school. However, in the articles, “Idiot Nation” by Michael Moore and “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, the authors express their concerns about the degrading quality of education. There are many problems the education system is facing today, and several of them are having negative effects on the quality of the education that the students are receiving which are highlighted aptly by the effective use of rhetorical strategies by Moore and Gatto.
In the Unites States and Canada, an estimated range of 500,00 to 2 million people speak/use American Sign Language. According to the Census Bureau, ASL is the leading minority language after Spanish, Italian German and French. ASL is the focal point of Deaf Culture and nothing is dearer to the Deaf people’s hearts because it is a store of cultural knowledge and also a symbol of social identity, and social interactions. It is a fully complete, autonomous and natural language with complex grammar not derived and independent of English. ASL is visual manual, making visual manual words, moving the larger articulators od the limbs around in space. English uses audible words using small muscles
When a strict nun rejected Shakira from the school choir because of her shrill vibrato, Shakira told a friend that, one day, she would have the last laugh when she became a world superstar (Salgado 2008). Neither the friend nor the nun could have imagined that years later, that shrill vibrato would catapult Shakira onto the very stage she promised to stand on, performing for leaders of state, Popes, and legions of fans worldwide. For Shakira, as her artistic empire expanded, so too did her linguistic and performative repertoire. By employing discourse analysis, this essay will trace the linguistic journey associated with Shakira’s musical history, beginning with some of her earlier songs—Ojos Así (Eyes Like Yours) [1998], Suerte (Wherever, Whenever) [2001], and Hips Don’t Lie [2005]—to some of her more recent work—Lo Hecho Está Hecho (Did It Again) [2009] and Addicted to You [2010]—in order to understand how language and performance of her music affect the ways in which listeners consume, interpret, and experience Shakira as a US-Colombian, a Latina, and a global citizen.
Schools, Teaching, and Learning; Not Good for Everyone Never let going to school and taking classes get in the way of learning. There is more than enough blame to go around regarding the education and preparation for the recent generations of students entering adulthood. Some people, like Michael Moore blame politics on the poor state of education, others like Davis Guggenheim, blame the powerful teachers union putting their own needs before the students. I place the blame squarely at the feet of the parents, students and over all society for the current state of education.
Education is being able to apply what you have learned to real-life situations. Education is being able to communicate intelligently and respectfully to other people. Education is being able to use your knowledge to change the world for the better. However, in most American schools, memorization is the key to pass the class. Even worse, some schools in America use the concept of “customized learning,” where the student can go at their own pace and ask questions if they need to. All of the homework and tests are on a computer. This results in students falling far behind in their class due to the concept of going at their own pace, teachers no longer have to teach, just answer questions, and cheating is unusually easy for students. Unfortunately, this is the route my own high school has taken.
American Sign Language is a naturally acquired language; my sister, at five, has perfect ASL grammar and sentence structure, something I will never really have. Grammar in ASL is about your face: eyebrows are lifted for yes or no questions, scrunched together for wh- questions. When signing the word "big", say "Cha" with your voice. It is important to look the signer in the face; use peripheral vision to absorb the hand and arm movements. This, of course is not as easy as it sounds - deaf people have extraordi...
If someone says \"tree\", we will immediately understand the meaning, this is because the concept of tree in people's minds. Gestures and so on. The words \"tree\" Sign language speaker gestures, look at those words don't need to think about the word \"tree\", you can understand right now. That is gesture to represent a concept or point of view, rather than a word, when use ASL express ideas, don't try to express the same meaning in English sentences in all words with gestures, language is not such operations, such as \"I'm hungry\" in English. Said in Spanish is \"I am a little hungry. Is ASL is ought to say \"I'm hungry\". In the application of sign language, the first to think good to express the thought in your mind, forget the word, and then find the right gestures to express it, even when you check sign language reference books, also not constrained by literal, should use similar words to find the right gestures.
The specific question that guided my research is: “What are the differences in syntax and imagery between conversational ASL and ASL literature, and what effect do those differences have on ASL literature?” Anyone who has learned American Sign Language can attest that its literature is, in fact, different than its “regular” language. However, after discovering that not much research has been done on ASL literature, I wanted to know how they’re different.
Throughout my experience in the public school system, I have heard the line, “What do I need to know this for anyway?” about 1,057 times. It is not uncommon to hear students complain about the worth of their education. Regardless, there seems to be a unanimous agreement that the youth needs education to succeed in life. What is education anyway and what does schooling accomplish? In his book, “A Time to Learn” George Wood provides a definition of education as “making wise citizens and good neighbors who can think deeply and intelligently about issues of self and society, take care for and respect others, take care of their family needs, and contribute to the welfare of others” (Glickman 48). Is school necessary for developing this type of educated citizen? If not, how is it we measure success and how is school important in attaining that?
However, the author of “Is Education Primarily the Result of Influences Other Than School” purposefully states the counter argument in an unfair and easily rebuttable way. By not using qualifiers and claiming that the opposing side argues that “students receive all the education they need” from school. It is elementary to argue against such a broad, flawed, and indefensible claim. The way that the author attempts to figuratively tackle the argument is commensurately flawed; the author recycles the argument that the knowledge collected at school “[does not] stick with the student[s] for [a] long” period of time. At this point, the is doing nothing but repeating what was stated earlier and similarly, does not even attempt to use credible evidence to support the
In reality, people with an education tend to be very successful while the people without an education tend to be unsuccessful. Education is a key factor that defines the basis of human-beings and lays the foundation for human development. It also plays a major role in creating a huge gap in the division within the social classes. This huge gap is due to unsuccessful education that exists in society. There are many factors that contribute to unsuccessful education which include expensive education, the quality of education, and disadvantaged individuals. Education is an important aspect of society that needs affordability, skilled and professional teachers, and resources in order to be successful and conform to societal standards.
Education is a very important aspect of the lives of all people all over the world. What we learn, not just in the classroom, shapes who we are. We take our education everywhere we go. We use it when talking to our buddies about sports or music, we use it while solving a math problem, we use our education while debating with our family whether or not we should watch TV or go to the movies. Our education is the foundation of who we are, since every decision we make and every thought we think is dependent on what we know. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone craved learning to such a degree that at lunch tables all over the world the topic of conversation isn't who likes who, or how drunk someone got over the weekend, but it would be what books were read over the weekend, and what new ideas were thought of. This crave for learning would be an ideal but still suggests need for improvement with the current educational system. It seems that the problem with education is that somewhere along the lines the human race forgot (assuming they, at one point, understood how valuable information is) that learning is not just a mandatory process, but also an opportunity to transcend and open the gateway to a better understanding.
Schools exist to produce well educated youth that society will benefit from. From personal experience, ill-informed adults make for an unstable, rotten community. Schools hold a big responsibility. They should create a safe haven for students that creates a love for learning, and then also nurtures that same admiration for learning. Schools that students don’t feel safe in usually house students that aren’t interested in subjects that are being taught. They should maintain a well-educated faculty who is all passionate about what they do. If there is a lazy faculty, it will influence the students to become lazy. Schools need to produce the change that this world needs- well rounded, creative, knowledgeable individuals. An effective school in today’s society would have a strong basis on the common core, but make it so that the information is fun to learn. From experience, once the information fun to learn, the rest goes by
Education is a vital part of society. It serves the beneficial purpose of educating our children and getting them ready to be productive adults in today's society. But, the social institution of education is not without its problems. Continual efforts to modify and improve the system need to be made, if we are to reap the highest benefits that education has to offer to our children and our society as a whole.