10 Challenges within the Educational System

1. There's always one answer to a question

Throughout the process of partaking in systematized educational institutions, there's always a criterion that applies to all the taught knowledge - That there's an answer and it is absolute. Math shares the strongest characteristic of ability to freely choose how one goes about to arrive at the answer. Grammar rules have exceptions, but exceptions are also a form of indisputable truth. This does not mean that the questions, answers and methodologies change. They change to new answers that once again follow the criterion. Granted, they also change at a futilely slow rate.

More importantly, the education would contain questions that are without definite, objectively true answers, but several different ones that make sense depending on the student's subjective perspective. Why is this of importance? The students get programmed that these questions are irrelevant since they are not spoken of. Accordingly, they have trouble living a life guided by personal values, ethics and patterns that correlate with each person's own, innate orientation. The challenge is simply to allow and present more answers to young aspirants of life so that they know of more answers to choose from, that they previously did not know existed. Therefore, it may sometimes be far more important to question where an answer derives from, instead of how to reach it.

Shortfalls of Sex Education

Two people copulating without any knowledge of mind and body are as useful to each other as uncooked ham and eggs to a hungry customer in a diner or restaurant. Basically sex is not about the merging of two parts but the glorification of two unique individuals with so much power between them a whole new world could be presented if they only knew how to unleash it. Everything starts in the mind is complimented by the spirit and utilized or implemented by the members of the body. If you educate the mind you automatically enlighten the body.

Using Action Research To Change The Future Of Education

Learning in online environments is no longer a new idea. Around the world, in classrooms and in homes children and adults of all ages are learning in both structured and non-structured environments online. People from three to 73 are successful online learners. People who predict disruptive innovations have said that by the year 2025 over 50% of all the education in the world will be done through computers.

The Role of Educational Charity

The role of educational charity in human development cannot be overemphasised. Educational charity is not only the non profit making effort by governments, development partners and charity organisations, aimed at helping the poor or the less privileged to be adequately informed of the possible threats to life and continued survival within their immediate environment, but also those concerted efforts by such groups aimed at affording the underprivileged the needed opportunity to acquire the needed information, knowledge and skills to deal appropriately with those life threatening conditions so as to make at a least a minimum decent living and contribute meaningfully to development in general.

The Face of Education Today

What does education look like today? Does it match what is expected in the real world?

"We are so trapped in the memory of what school was like for us. When we were students, the world outside of school looked like the world inside of school. Now, it does not. The paper based system does not make any sense to kids who are coming up in school. Is our educational system geared toward innovation? Do we want an 18th century model or a 21st century model for our schools?" - Susan Patrick U.S. Dept of Ed.

Puzzles And Educational Toys

The brain is a little like an engine, it deteriorates more rapidly through lack of use than regular use. There is nothing wrong with taking a bit of time out to merely sit and think, in fact this mild form of meditation is to be encouraged in our fast-moving world of hustle and bustle, but there is also a requirement for puzzles and educational toys that stimulate the brain whilst still being calm.

The Educational Benefits of Website Blogging

Blogs all over the world are being used for very different reasons, from social commentary to making money. Blogging thus has become a vital source of business, information and social interaction. It has also begun to be used within the teaching system, enabling interaction on educational issues outside the normal classroom experience.