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A Career in the Funeral Industry
This is an admissions letter for someone wishing to attend mortuary school. The following sample is from the conclusion- Overall, my experience and education have kept me in the healthcare indust...
Promotion Essays: Ideas and Tricks
Promotion may be a very broad topic for an essay, which provides you freedom of choice. Generally speaking, every text promotes something, therefore the number of promotion techniques is sort of ...
A Multicultural Approach: Diversity in Today's Schools
The world’s population is growing at a stupendous rate. More and more competition is growing among individuals. With each year, increasing numbers of newly arrived immigrant children enroll in th...
Book Description
This paper asks the question: What is understanding? Through research and thought this paper will ponder a new idea of education and learning. Knowledge and skill have traditionally been the mainstays of American education. We want students to be knowledgeable about history, science, geography, and so on. We want students to be skillful in the routines of arithmetic, the craft of writing, the use of foreign languages. Achieving this is not easy, but we work hard at it. In the long term, education must aim for active use of knowledge and skill (Gifford, 1991). Students garner knowledge and skill in schools so that they can put them to work–in professional roles–scientist, engineer, designer, doctor, businessperson, writer artist, musician–and in lay roles–citizen, voter, parent–that require appreciation, understanding, and judgment. Yet rote knowledge generally defies active use, and routine skills often serve poorly because students do not understand when to use them. In short, we must teach for understanding in order to realize the long-term payoffs of education. (Baron, 1990).
