Essays on Role of Education

University rankings where individual institutions are classified according to their scoring in a variety of indicators have become widespread as a tool to measure performance and homogeneize the field of higher education. Rankings are an inevitable consequence of neoliberalism in higher education “as they are…

The problem of equity in education in Australia has been a burning topic for many years. Scientists are concerned with a variety of questions on equity, including the major factors of disadvantage in schools and universities, and the chief one among them is the socioeconomic…

After contemplating what career path was best suited to my skill set, I came across a video showing the problems with the world today. Conflict. Global warming. War. They were all consuming our world and consuming our resources. I wanted to help. I wanted to…

Punishments Punishments are the diminishing of an occurrence of a reaction in operant conditioning by either introducing a negative stimulus or eliminating a positive stimulus. Punishments are most effective to diminish the occurrence in a behavior if it trails the behavior directly rather than a…

M.Ed.Inge Dorsey is the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Integrated Studies program as well as an untenured lecturer at the University of Prince Edward Island. When Inge was young she had no aspirations of being a teacher and never imaged that she would end up…

Throughout the general schooling a person has to go through, one is taught to learn the material, study hard for their tests, get a good grade, and continue on to the next lesson. Going through an education this way may cause people to not remember…

Such linear thinking: finish high school, go to university, get a degree. Success, right? Not so. This path may be what parents — and society — want us to believe. The truth is that academia is not for everyone. Every generation of students has come…

In this study it’s focused to gain the some basics and some interesting factors that must be known as important of mobile technologies and what are the benefits furthermore brief discussion. In this modern society vast use of mobile phones and technology among students is…

The internet has hardly left any part of our lives untouched. With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things or IoT and Machine Learning, even the devices we use regularly are also connected to the internet and talk to each other to present us…

Great Baby Overview Mira Jacob’s article, “The Great Baby Einstein Scam,” is about the “Baby Einstein” videos Disney released, and how essentially it was all a hoax, providing no educational value to your baby. The article reminds parents that bought the Baby Einstein videos to…

Education is a right, not a privilege. But, unfortunately many are robbed of that right- and the impact that has on the world is devastating. In this essay I will elaborate on three main issues that I find are hindering greater access to education: the…

The article, “Effects of the Birth Order on Educational Achievement of Children”, focuses on the effect that birth order has on the educational achievement on students in District DiKhan, Pakistan. The significance of the study outlined in this article was to conclude whether birth order…

Dewey’s History Born 1859 in Burlington, Vermont, Dewey was a highly influential American philosopher and educator. He graduated from the University of Vermont, in 1879, then later received his Ph. D from Johns Hopkins University in 1884. He also taught at the universities of Minnesota…

According to B.F. Skinner (1948) Reinforcement is responsible for response strengthening-increasing the rate of responding or making responses more likely to occur. A reinforcer is any stimulus or event following a response that leads to response strengthening. Reinforcers are situationally specific: They apply to individuals…

Abstract Excellent education is the eye opener to different opportunities in our societies; also it assists us to be able to understand everything around us. Philosophy is regarded as the passion an individual has to reflect as well as uncover the underlying of a particular…