Learning Essays

As Maxim says “All progress is born of inquiry. Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention” (Kothari, 3) .This means that doubt gives place to inquiry and inquiry to invention. When this inquiry becomes the part of a systematic investigation, is …

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who is best known for his experimental study of memory. Hermann Ebbinghaus is credited for the forgetting curve, the spacing effect and was the first to describe what a learning curve was. Ebbinghaus began his studies in 1879 in a testing lab in Germany; …

Departure: Extolling the great importance of knowledge, Aristotle the famous philosopher began his work on metaphysics by declaring that all men by nature desire to know. Thus, he makes knowledge the delight of man and links it with his quest for survival.  This search for knowledge is deeply rooted in …

Introduction In the context of life long learning within nursing there are many different study methods available to us. Half the battle is won when the individual has chosen the method which is most effective to them. Study can involve working alone or with others, and to achieve goals effectively …

Appropriate and Inappropriate Interaction with Students With the system of teaching that educators are faced today, the different ways by which teachers interact with their students is rather guided by the law. Certainly, these laws are designed to protect the values of the educators and the students as well as …

            The decision made by educators has an essential role in the whole area of education. This is due to the fact that their actions has a direct effect in their students as well as themselves. Being a teacher entails that he or she should have the necessary competence and …

             Teachers have expectations that gradually each child will become self-directed. Consequently, as children learn and become self-directed, adults simply ease into the background, allowing children to practice their self-direction. When adults understand human development, they avoid doing for children what the children can do for themselves. Throughout life, adults …

  Abstract The continuously declining quality of education has alerted the US government to pass laws and challenged educational institutions to implement effective strategies to improve the survivability of students in elementary, high school and college (Kafer, 2004). Among these challenges is the eradication of gender bias in the teachers’ …

Particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, there have been reports circulating about increasing levels of teacher shortages especially at the elementary and secondary levels. Whether or not there are indeed shortages in the supply of teachers has been debated and even more so the causes of such …

Introduction             There are times that teachers grow tired with their work. Some teachers handle stress well and manage to replenish lost energies. There are others, however, who go through their routine day in and day out—only their will power sustains them. Sadly, there are also teachers who succumbed to …