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    The scarcity of education opportunities forces people into a competition to secure a place at school. In a story‚ a woman who is willing to scarify her life so that her son have an opportunity to get a better life.” The night before opening the registration‚ thousands of people lied outside the gate hoping to be first in line to get one of those positions. When the gate was opened‚ there was a stampede leading 20 injured people and a woman died. She was a mother who gave her life to try to open her

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    The excerpt “Three Kinds of Discipline” from John Holt’s book “Freedom and Beyond” give the reader some fine points on the different disciplines needed by a young person to learn certain tasks and be successful. Holt highlights how important self-learning is in conjunction with supplied learning. One of his examples was a child playing with blocks. If the child has them leaning or puts one out of place while stacking them‚ they will fall down. The child then learns from that and will remember

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    The most basic summarization of my thoughts on John Holt’s “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” would be to say I am in strong agreement with him. Holt describes his teaching experience with elementary school students and how he’s found fault in the most commonly used methods of such. In my opinion‚ learning even the most basic english concepts in a harsh pass or fail environment can take away from a person’s interest in these topics. A main factor in reading or writing should be the enjoyment

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    "Educational System" High school is a place where you grow up physically and mentally. In high school you begin as freshmen and graduate as a senior. Throughout that span of life a lot happeneds‚ and you are constantly learning as you grow. But I know many high schools including mine are not perfect and have flaws in their educational system‚ that can be fixed in order to provide a better environment for learning. Learning is a never ending process that we draw from our personal experiences

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    essay ’s "School is Bad for Children" and "School ’s Out" John Holt and Daniel Pink think there are many flaws in the United States ’ educational system. They also feel that there is a need for a change. They recommend and think that the teachers should have different types of teaching techniques‚ the curriculum should not just be taught in the class room‚ but taught with example‚ and that standardized test should be abolished. Holt believes that the curriculum doesn ’t allow children to become

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    There are no bad children‚ only bad parents. There are no bad children‚ only bad parents; they are only copying what they see from the different members of the family. It is also known that the role of the family during early children development is very important‚ principally because of its role as an agent of socialization by which the children learn the models to follow. Although the emphasis placed on the early years may be overstated‚ most parents feel that they are responsible for the behavior

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    Gatto and Holt In the essays “Against School” by John Gatto‚ and “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt‚ both authors discuss their views on education and schooling. In both essays the authors analyze education and state their opinions about what is wrong with our schooling system. The authors explain the issues surrounding teachers‚ teaching styles‚ and curriculum in our schools. In John Gatto’s essay “Against School‚” he explains how he does not believe that forced schooling

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    A Response to “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” Summary: John Holt is a former teacher who shares personal anecdotes in his essay “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading.” Holt remembers taking a traditional approach to teaching as a beginning elementary school teacher. He initially thought that quizzing students over assigned readings and requiring them to use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words was a best practice. However‚ a conversation with his sister challenges him to think critically

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    Thorne-Kalmbach 11/01/2010 English 098- assignment 3 Professor Merck To say school is completely bad for children would be ignorant. Without schools children would lack the discipline‚ focus‚ and life skills that you would need to survive in the real world. Although I agree partially with John Holt’s “School Is Bad for Children”‚ I disagree with many of his ideas of how we should fix our schools. Holt makes many good points of how school is bad‚ or at least the way they teach is‚ but also fails to take into

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    Situational Analysis 4 Immediate Issue 4 Other Issues 4 Environmental Analysis 5 SWOT Analysis 5 PESTLE Analysis 5 Alternatives 6 Modernizing the Distribution Process 8 Recommendation 8 Timeline 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 10 Executive Summary Holt Renfrew‚ is high-end retail chain for designer fashions and cosmetics that imports their products from Europe‚ Asia and USA. They are facing some challenges regarding the size of their current warehouse and inventory levels. The warehouse is not big

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