Abstinence is the only sure way to keep people totally safe from early pregnancies, population overgrowth, and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
But is it the best way? It is my belief that the “abstinence-only” approach is not the best way to deal with these issues. I think the large majority of these problems stem from a young population ignorant about the negative effects that can come from their sexual activity. Therefore, I feel that a comprehensive sex-education for all teenagers is needed.
Teaching children the “abstinence-only” approach I feel is the same as a doctor treating the symptoms instead of the cause. From a young age, children should be well informed of what sex is and how it is a beautiful thing shared between two people in a mature relationship. When parents try to shelter their children as long as possible and only show them why sex is so wrong and try to scare them away from sex I feel is the same as treating the symptoms instead of the cause. We must be honest with our children and show them how it is better to avoid sexual activity until marriage if possible and if not, how to be sexually active with extreme caution. Sex education can be taught in a moral and ethical context. Read more…
A good education is the sunlight which nurtures and reveals the splendor. Without a good education, our intellect will remain in the dark, ignorant of the beauty around us. However, who is responsible for the shower of sunlight?
In And I’m Watching It All From My Window, the author Chinaka Hodge suggested that circumstances dictated the way of people’s life. More often than not, children and Teens modeled on their peers, so if their group went astray, they would just follow. This could account for the ongoing high crime rate in Western Oakland, where drug addicts and unmarried mothers were prevalent. There, circumstances taught the children not to strive for the best; they simply acquiesced to the assumption that their future is hopeless. The situation in Western Oakland would remain so until teachers and parents convince the children there that they worth better lives.
Sydney J.Harris, the author of What True Education Should Do, believed that the responsibility of education falls on teachers. A good teacher, instead of teaching students his own knowledge, should elicit what is already in their minds, helping them to think critically. To illustrate his point, Harris related to a slave boy, who, without schooling, knew geometry. It was because as a life observer, a slave boy can possibly observing from a mathematician’s point of view. Daily life experiences had built the knowledge in his mind; all a teacher had to do is cultivating it. Read more…
Many believe that free education is a relatively modern idea, instituted at the end of the 19th Century when secondary education was made compulsory. However, this is a misconception. In the middle ages grammar schools provided education for anyone who wanted it. They were funded by rich nobles who donated an extremely large sum of money for the school to be founded and continue to provide education to children for years. Although anyone who wanted to go was able to, this was not always practical. Only boys went to school and girls stayed at the home to be educated in cooking, washing etc by their mothers. As it was not compulsory, if a family was too poor to allow their boy to go to school and needed him to help them survive by working, he had to stay at home. This was the case for about 40% of families in England. Despite this, grammar schools reached only a tiny percentage of the population. It was widely believed among the gentry and upper classes (who funded and therefore controlled the schools) that education should not be extended to the poor since it would upset the social order and increase their expectations beyond acceptable levels.
During the reign of Elizabeth I the number of grammar schools expanded considerably. Protestantism emphasised the importance of education as a means to encourage ordinary people to read the Bible. The new religious enthusiasm of the country meant that people with the necessary means were encouraged to pay for the education of the proletariat. Due to this, many wealthy members of the middling sort bequeathed large sums of money to small grammar schools. Successful scholars of humble background were even able to apply for places at the prestigious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Read more…
Having a college education is very important for today’s competitive market for many different reasons. When an individual is looking for a job, it will be a lot easier to find a good one with a good wage if this person has a college degree. Being an educated person is valuable in the society’s view, most of the people with higher education have a superior standard of living. Within a work environment, an individual with college education is more likely to be more successful than someone else without one.
There are a lot of jobs available in the market today in many different industries. The problem is not the quantity of jobs available; it is the quality of jobs available. The majority of the openings are for low wages like flipping burger at a Mac Donald’s, working as a cashier in a Walgreen’s, or even cleaning the floor at a Publix. Not a lot of jobs are well paid in the big corporations, and for these ones there are a lot of competition and qualified workers going after these jobs. Most, if not all of the big shots in the corporations have completed at least college. The executives, who have high wages, the CEOs, they all have been through college. A college education is a huge differential for people looking for a good job. Read more…
For as long as I can remember, I have associated my high school graduation as the turning point in my life, and I have always had great plans and expectations for the life that I would begin after I had earned my general education diploma. The most dramatic obstacle that I had dreamed of conquering at this time was to find my own independent place in the world, but I was surprised to discover that after I had successfully completed high school, I wasn’t nearly educated enough to acquire my desires. High school did not leave me in a position, mentally or financially, to move on in life. Because I felt completely unprepared for life, it became a necessity for me to pursue educational improvement elsewhere.
I began looking into various colleges, universities, and technical schools, and, because high school had not completed preparing me for the future, I was determined to make sure that my next school would not end with the same results. Due to the fact that they only offer study in one single field, I felt that a technical school would not help me to grow intellectually, and I immediately eliminated the possibility of practicing further education in this type of facility. I was left, still, with countless decisions concerning which route that I should follow to complete my education. After looking at a large number of the different educational paths that I could follow, I decided that I needed to attend a school that actively prepares its students for their future life by taking advantage of the crucial time period that most all of the undergraduates are experiencing. Read more…
