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7 Scholarship Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them
With the cost of college tuition rising astronomically each year, everyone wants to compete for the chance to obtain as much funding as possible. There are many scholarship opportunities available, but the competition for the vast majority of these is fierce. As such, you want to ensure that each scholarship application you send out represents you to the best of your ability. You’re competing with countless students who want this award just as much as you do!
Because of that, the following guide aims to show you 7 mistakes you should avoid making at all costs when it comes to applying for scholarships. Avoiding these mistakes just might mean the difference between an “ok” application and one that shows you are truly deserving of a college scholarship.
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Education – Basic Necessity For All!
No Education, No Life! Just like food, water and air, education has become a basic necessity for everyone to survive in today’s world. Education is a broad concept that refers to all the experiences in which students can learn something to develop and establish them in the society. Education could be formal and informal. Formal education consists of a systematic standard of instruction, teaching and training. This format is derived from many different disciplines of life, i.e., psychology, philosophy, biology, linguistics, sociology, etc. While informal education consists of the general etiquette, decorum, rules and codes of conduct in the society.
Informal education is what you get mostly and largely from your progenitors. Your initial lessons starts from home where you get to learn how to sit, stand, behave and speak in the society with elders, mates, friends and others. When you start learning certain decorum then comes the time to go for formal education which helps in refining your persona further with more useful and powerful knowledge. This formal education helps you achieve your ultimate goal in the society of being a successful man or a satisfied person (depending on your own aspirations). It also helps you be a better human being and a person with refined wisdom.
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Education: Debunking the Case for National Standards – Alfie Kohn
originally posted at Daily Kos
Alfie Kohn is one of the most cogent critics of much of what goes on in education. He is well known for his belief that eliminating homework and grades will lead to more and better learning. You can explore many of his ideas at his website.
He has a piece coming out in Education Week, of which he has a slightly expanded version at the website, which you can read in its entirety here. Consider this paragraph from the middle of the piece:
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