The Problems With Education

From where they are exposed to the ideologies and values of whatever surrounding they eventually reside in the early years of youth, kids are growing up in conditions. It's apparent that there's a serious difficulty in how we are discussing kids, as we are encountering a set of battles and issues one following another. Place is taken by the conditioning of children in two critical manner of handle, that is in the house and the college or religious organizations. It's through these ways, that kids are molded into individuals' who they are genuinely not, giving to the perpetuation of the current world catastrophe into the future. The current world catastrophe impacts us all and could be found in the issues, battles and sections of our period, that have all been the consequence of the absence of integral thinking and personal consciousness.

Self - awareness and built-in thinking may only happen, if you find a basic knowledge of the personal too as in general, which makes being through self life - knowledge. For it is from within, that the whole of lifestyle is gathered, consequently instruction in its correct sense is a means for persons to know themselves. To be able to get interpersonal and financial security within culture, current instruction nevertheless, has put highlight on method through the collection of info from publications, that is completed so in the quest for another occupation. This sort of instruction also imposes a sort of escapism as it shows people to become entertained with details, and putting value upon method which inevitably brings apathy and passiveness of the head; nevertheless, like all escapes, this unavoidably leads to anguish and distress. In the current day methods of instruction, the instructor and expert figures ingrain into child's attitude, the value of training technique whether it's in the college where they're educated to get details and details, or the religious organizations where individuals constantly follow concepts and values. Nevertheless, the obtaining of varied skills, guidelines and details may just immerse us in anguish and turmoil. Learning how to create and read are crucial, also as learning a occupation, but can method provide the capacity to us to comprehend its difficulties and life? Surely it is supplementary, and we are clearly denying a essential and much higher element of life when we are trained to try for method.

Condition children are instituted by the school with info to enable them to develop into experts, in whatever area. Therefore the person becomes entertained with a special area of understanding and therefore a part of existence, as he/she becomes a professional; the difficulty with this though, is the goals included and how this is attained. Capacity have been given by the over emphasis of technique, but with no knowledge of life, these abilities may just create a man callous. We have been also provided by technique having a kind of bodily and mental protection, providing a feeling to us of intense and energy freedom. The instructors and organizations therefore try to form individuals into these sorts of individuals to squeeze into their ideas and wishes of what 'should be' rather of comprehending the fact of 'what is'; therefore, the outcome becomes more significant than the means. But, what people don't recognize is that, the indicates decides the ultimate result. So, today we start to notice how the previous projects itself into the potential and how children have become the continuance of current and the past. Therefore, the current world turmoil continues to exist due to this.

The authority numbers and instructors are keeping these methods of manage through the way of self-discipline that guarantees an outcome, which can be more important for them than the means. Nevertheless, the essential difficulty with subject is that as a result of individual and anxiety forecasts it is becoming an alternative for love, and is used always. It is generally found in the title of a merely goal, however it is a barrier to freedom, and independence in the feeling of their state of thoughts, cannot be accomplished through self-discipline, through opposition. Additionally, self-discipline is forced by authority figures through 'reward and punishment', which instills additional anxiety. The teachers subtly condition kids with this theory, supporting them through this anxiety to battle for the benefit of the nation, harvesting patriotism and nationalism which splits individuals, to fight in the name of God or to fight in the name of their family. The college, parents and spiritual organizations do this in several methods, encouraging kids to get good marks and be 'the greatest', which breeds jealousy and competition, to be loyal, which breeds bitterness and sections, and to be a ethical individual, which breeds superficiality and avarice - all within the want of a benefit. Today, the anxieties of the resulting punishments of not pursuing these valuations are severe enough for persons to not actually question why they follow them in the first location, but again, the individual might not understand any better, thanks to the degree of their own fitness and their best distribution to these values as 'reality'.

Might as a bribe? it be feasible for instructors and parents to exhibit to the kid how to be thoughtful of the others without using a benefit or love bribe? For it's in this self - centred seeking that superficiality is also created, and there when there is a benefit for it, since the fear of consequence and bribe then are more essential that respect itself could be no respect for each other. How can when they bribe the person with a benefit a parent or teacher have regard or even love a kid, and jeopardize them with a punishment? punishment? Surely, that is just motivating concern and covetousness. Again, these instructors and authority figures consequently don't know any better themselves since they too have been raised this in this method to behave for the benefit of an effect; and till we actually recognize that there might be actions free from the need to get, the continuance of our anxieties, avarice and jealousy, which type the pride, will continue to keep part of our reality.

All this starts to give to the wish of avoid from 'what is' or the 'present', whether through the shallow ways of press, eating, faith, drugs or sex, which all supply a kind of short-term self-gratification for the pride. In faith, persons state to love their Lord and might follow the values and concepts to become a 'great' individual, nevertheless, the objectives of the procedure are all self-centred and self-seeking for private satisfaction. When the person preys to Lord in a period of strife, what they are performing is predicting their expectations and worries in their self where they can fill their grief. God or Reality, is much beyond mental and thought needs, it's an area where the thoughts remains and personal - aware, and a still mind isn't a self-disciplined mind, but a mind that knows the functions of the personal.

Consequently, it has been proven how kids are being trained by methods of expert and how this types a scarcity of self-awareness, the pride and wishes for escapism, so today, you can ask 'what is the best sort of instruction?'. The right sort of instruction would help kids understand life all together and maybe not through the tunnel-vision outlook of 'sector'; it might assist people become integrated creatures with an understanding of the complete extent of the difficulties and miseries of the planet in an impartial and smart strategy. The young would possess the nature of request, seeking out reality in the problem - individual, spiritual, political and ecological, a greater significance would be brought by which upon the young, thereby delivering forth the wish for a better globe. For this to actually occur, the parents and instructors themselves, must first split down the values and ideologies they maintain and develop an integral knowing of themselves and life; consequently the best sort of instruction is not just involved with the young, but with the old generation also, who should not be also absorbed within their very own methods. The basic level is that when the person actually enjoys the kid, for love is crucial to the method of integration; they might observe to it that they have the best type of teachers, who might supply the child with an integral knowing of the planet we reside in, for it is just until persons holding this comprehension, that the chance of occurring a better world will come into being.

Educational Problem Solving

Abstract

This article introduces the educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site, describing competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, product offerings, and usability features. It concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information superhighway.

Introduction

The aim of this article is to introduce to the world the educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The article is addressed to those readers who may have an educational problem bogging them and who may therefore be looking for a way out of their predicament. The reader may be a parent, child, or student.

It is a common fact of life that we all have problems and that we are often frustrated or we tend to lash out because of our inability to find accessible and reliable information about our problems. This specialist site fills this need - as our pragmatic friend for solving our educational problems.

To be of the greatest use to people a problem solving site must combine pragmatic discussions of their personal or professional problem with merchant products that provide more detailed information. Typically, the web site will provide free information in the form of news, articles, and advice, which direct the visitor on what to do to solve her problems. Complementing this, the web site will also provide merchant products which discuss in detail how the visitor can go about resolving her problem. This means that the most effective, visitor-oriented problem-solving site will be an information-packed commercial site - and so is the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site and its specialist sites.

The approach that we have adopted below is to describe competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, product offerings, and usability features.

Competitive Offerings

The following are the top educational sites on the Internet, along with their offerings.

US Department of Education. It defines the US education policy and provides information on financial aid, educational research and statistics, grants and contracts, and teaching and learning resources.

Educational Testing Service. It provides a range of test resources.

FunBrain.com. It provides educational games for K-8 kids.

PrimaryGames.com. It provides fun learning tools and games for kids.

GEM. It provides educational resources such as lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.

Education World. It provides advice on lesson plans, professional development, and technology integration.

NASA Education Enterprise. It provides educational materials and information relating to space exploration.

Spartacus Educational. It is a British online encyclopedia that focuses on historical topics.

Department for Education and Skills. It is a UK government department site that offers information and advice on various educational and skills topics.

Times Educational Supplement. It offers teaching news, teaching & educational resources, and active forums to help UK teachers.
All these sites are useful in the domains that they cover. Their main limitations are as follows:

1. They tend to cover only a very narrow segment of the educational market.
2. They do not take as their starting point the daily educational needs of the typical family.
3. They lack a problem focus; i.e., they do not formulate the typical learning and educational problems that pupils, students, and parents face on a daily basis.
4. As a result of the preceding point, the solutions offered are not as incisive (i.e. as problem-centred) as they could be.
5. They do not offer merchant products that deepen the visitor's understanding of her problem and of the consequent solutions.

The educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site addresses these problems by targeting a multiplicity of market segments, adopting a customer profile that fits the typical education-pursuing family, considering the specific needs or problems that this family may face, offering incisive (problem-centred) solutions to the various problems, and offering a range of merchant products that deepen the visitor's appreciation of her problems and of the solutions that are applicable to them.

Customer Profile

The customer profile or target visitor characteristics of the educational solutions module is the same as for all specialist sites of the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The site has been designed to meet the needs of visitors who have an educational problem bogging them. It is designed for both males and females, even though it is often convenient to refer to just one sex when writing.

This visitor uses search engines to research information about her personal or professional problem, with the intention of finding solutions to it. The visitor is serious about solving her problem and is therefore willing to buy products that help her to achieve her mission, provided that she can find reliable and honest information about relevant products so that she can make an informed decision about which ones to acquire. This information will help her to apply her finances economically, and hence avoid wasting money.

The visitor will want a money-back guarantee so that if a product does not live up to expectations or if she were misled into buying a product she can get a refund. Such a guarantee absolves her of purchase risks.

The visitor is intelligent (without necessarily being a genius), educated (without necessarily being a PhD), computer literate (without necessarily being a computer guru), and money-minded (without necessarily being a freebie hunter or an unemployed person). This of course does not mean that freebie hunters or unemployed persons cannot gain a thing from the site. To the contrary, there is a great deal of free information on the site. Just that it is hard to see how anyone can gain the full benefits of the site without buying products.

The visitor wants high quality information products (usually in digital form) and wants to pay the cheapest price for these (without paying so much emphasis on price that she compromises quality). The visitor also wants free bonus offers that are attached to the purchased goods.

The visitor is self-reliant and can cope on her own by reading, digesting, and applying advice about her problem until she solves it or discovers that she needs help from a professional, at which point her acquired knowledge will help her to reduce her consulting fees. As a result of the knowledge gained, the visitor will be able to assess consultants in order to avoid incompetent or fraudulent ones.

Problem-Centred Solutions

Our free solutions are organised in the form of pragmatic articles that are written by top experts. Each article addresses a specific daily problem, but does not go into detail. It explains the problem and tells the visitor what she must do to solve her problem. However, it does not tell the visitor how she must solve it - this is too much for an article. To find out about the how, the visitor must buy a product (usually an e-book or e-book set) that goes into greater depth.

The set of educational articles that we have chosen, to provide initial solution to a visitor's problem are as follows:

Signs of a Gifted Child - Informs parents on how to identify whether or not their children are gifted.

Essential Parenting Lessons for Enriching Your Child's Education - Teaches parents how to enhance their child's education.

Using Positive Affirmations to Be a Better Student - Teaches students how to use positive affirmations to improve their performance.

They Are Just Afraid of Writing - Teaches writing skills to students

How Can Parents Encourage Their Children to Read? - Shows parents how they can improve their children's reading skills.

Test Preparation Tutoring - Discusses the topic of tutoring students to prepare for tests or exams.

Test Taking Strategies - Discusses various strategies for taking and passing tests or exams

Playing and Winning the Scholarship Game - Describes how to win scholarships.

How to Get a Scholarship to a UK University - Describes how to win scholarships to a UK university.

Saving Money for College - Instructs students on how they can save money in preparation for college.

Student Loans: When Your Educational Dreams Can't Compete with the Cost - Explains to students the benefits of a student loan.

Education Loans Can Fund a Higher Degree to Boost Your Career - Also explains to students the benefits of a student loan.

The Secret to US Department of Education Loans - Teaches students how to get a US DoE loan to finance their higher education.

Student Loan Consolidation - Save Money, Pay Less, Spend More - Explains to graduates how to make use of loan consolidation to reduce their student loan repayments.

Higher Education: Finding the Right College for You - Explains to students how to find the right college or university for their higher education studies.

Mobile Learning - An Alternative Worth Considering - Explains the concept of mobile learning and its place in education.

Online Degrees - Is Online Education Right for You? - Analyses the merits of online learning as compared to traditional learning.

An Online College Education Overview - Reviews the whole concept of online learning.

Finding the Right Quotation for Your Paper or Speech Online - Shows writers and speakers how to find the right quotation to use in their writings or speeches.

Collaboration: An Important Leadership Development Skill - Explores the useful concept of collaboration and its role in leadership development.

At the end of each article is a list of merchant products that supplement the article's content. A link is also included for accessing the educational product catalogue.

Target Markets and Product Offerings

Now let us turn to the target markets and their associated product offerings. We have positioned the segments to address the various needs of a visitor over a period of time, and at any given time a customer may belong to one or more of the market segments. There are three general classes of products offered: ClickBank products, Google products, and eBay products. Google and eBay products are presented on each page of the site. ClickBank products are grouped into product categories that match the target markets. These categories and their markets are as follows.

Children and Parenting. This consists of visitors who want parenting solutions for improving their children's upbringing. Their needs are met through the Children and Parenting section of the educational product catalogue.

Difficult Admissions. This consists of visitors who want to learn how to get admission into top universities. Their needs are met through the Difficult Admissions section of the educational product catalogue.

Esoteric Needs. This consists of visitors with unusual needs. Their needs are met through the Esoteric Needs section of the educational product catalogue.

Financial Aid. This consists of visitors looking for scholarships, grants, or loans. Their needs are met through the Financial Aid section of the educational product catalogue.

Leadership Skills. This consists of visitors looking to develop their leadership skills. Their needs are met through the Leadership Skills section of the educational product catalogue.

Learning. This consists of visitors who want to improve their learning ability. Their needs are met through the Learning section of the educational product catalogue.

Mental Speed. This consists of visitors who want to explode their mental speed. Their needs are met through the Mental Speed section of the educational product catalogue.

Positive Affirmations. This consists of visitors who want to transform their negative dispositions into a positive mindset in order to improve their performance. Their needs are met through the Positive Affirmations section of the educational product catalogue.

Speaking. This consists of visitors looking to improve their speaking skills. Their needs are met through the Speaking section of the educational product catalogue.

Tests and Exams. This consists of visitors looking to master exam technique. Their needs are met through the Tests and Exams section of the educational product catalogue.

Writing. This consists of visitors looking to improve their writing skills. Their needs are met through the Writing section of the educational product catalogue.

Usability Considerations

Usability has been enhanced to make it easy for the visitor to find solutions to her problem, by following these steps:

1. The first thing the visitor sees are a set of articles whose titles represent the specific problem area they address. The articles are accessed from the Educational Problem Solving menu of the navigation bar to the left of the screen or from the Educational Problem Solving main page. By scanning these articles the visitor can identify whether or not her problem is covered. If not the visitor can check the educational product catalogue through the Product Catalogues menu of the same navigation bar, to see whether a product exists that answers her query. If she finds nothing she knows that her problem is not addressed. She can proceed to the Related Sites pages, which are accessible from the left navigation bar.

2. If the visitor finds an article that addresses her problem then she can begin to explore that; at the end of the article she will find products that discuss her problem more deeply. She can also access the educational product catalogue through an article page.

Conclusion

This article has introduced the educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The article has examined competitive offerings, the target customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, product offerings, and usability considerations. It concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information superhighway.

A A Agbormbai is the editor and webmaster of Personal and Professional Problem Solving - a web site that fills a vacuum on the Web. He has a PhD from Imperial College London and enjoys an interdisciplinary upbringing having worked or studied in aerospace engineering, information systems development, and management. The educational solutions module is one of many specialist sites of Personal and Professional Problem Solving.