Education.jpg (411×594) Education. School children sitting in the shade of an orchard in Bamozai, near Gardez, Paktya Province, Afghanistan A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone to an education.[2] Although education is compulsory in most places up to a certain age, attendance at school often isn't, and a minority of parents choose home-schooling, e-learning or similar for their children. Etymology[edit] Etymologically, the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing") from ēdūcō ("I educate, I train") which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect") from ē- ("from, out of") and dūcō ("I lead, I conduct").[3] Education can take place in formal or informal educational settings.
History[edit] Nalanda, ancient center for higher learning Formal education[edit] These are the grammar, usage, and style errors seen most commonly in written materials. Placebo Buttons. The Misconception: All buttons placed around you do your bidding. The Truth: Many public buttons are only there to comfort you. You press the doorbell button, you hear the doorbell ring. You press the elevator button, it lights up. You press the button on the vending machine, a soft drink comes rattling down the chute. Your whole life, you’ve pressed buttons and been rewarded. It’s conditioning at its simplest – just like a rat pressing a lever to get a pellet of food. The thing about buttons, though, is there seems to be some invisible magic taking place between the moment you press them down and when you get the expected result.
Maybe there’s a man inside who pulls out the can of soda and puts it in the chute. You just don’t know, and that’s how conditioning works. The problem here is that some buttons in modern life don’t actually do anything at all. Non-functioning mechanisms like this that motivate you to fool yourself are called placebo buttons, and they’re everywhere. Sources: Evolution of a Technology Start-up.
You’re not entitled to anything. Hustle for everything you’re worth. I’ve received some very angry emails from founders that are trying to get their startup featured on TSF. For example: “I submitted our startup yesterday, and you still haven’t written about us yet on The Startup Foundry! What gives? Is you head so far up your ass you can’t see how great our app is? You guys are exactly like TechCrunch!” Typically I delete the email and setup a filter to automatically avoid any future contact with the person, but this time I felt compelled to respond to the founder (Perhaps it was the TechCrunch barb that pushed me over the edge) in public.
You’re not entitled to anything. The best way to get your startup covered is to have an awesome narrative, not a sense of entitlement. Airbnb has one of my favorite hustling stories ever from a team of relatively “unknowns”. The Airbnb founders came out of the summer 2008 Y Combinator class. . - Fred Wilson on AirBnB How could you even begin to doubt these guys determination? Build a great company, be kind, and hustle. Knowledge. Keynote Animation Tricks - How To Streamline Your Keynote Animation. School. School building and recreation area in England. Students at school in an Indian village. A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. [citation needed] In these systems, students progress through a series of schools.
The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught, is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary and secondary education. There are also non-government schools, called private schools. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building. Etymology. School.