Make Some Room for Homeschooling

“My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” – Thomas Alva Edison

            The above quotation was said by Thomas Alva Edison after he was expelled from his previous school just because his mind often wandered during the class. His mother ensured him that it was not the end of the world that he could not get the formal education. His mother believed that Edison was special. He was an extraordinary person even he got terrible hearing problem not long after the expelling moment. Thus, she home-schooled Edison until he succeeded in inventing many new mass communication devices.

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Should National Examination be Eradicated?

             It becomes widespread today that students in the last grade of high schools get into panic every year by national examination. They are very anxious and nervous by the coming exam. Students tend to spend most of their time by studying specific subjects and following any courses. National examination became a hot topic after it had to be the students’ graduation standard. Students who cannot reach higher score than the standard should take a high risk as failed. Furthermore, the graduation standard has increased year by year. Therefore, the government should eradicate national examination because it cannot be the school graduation standard and burdens the students a lot.

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Mentally Ill Students

              Can we imagine if there is a boy, who is sitting in the back corner of the classroom, suddenly getting angry and ruining the class? This incident rarely happens and just a few people aware of its existence. That boy who is suddenly in anger has his own label as mentally ill person. Mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate others functioning. Just like diabetes which has the disorder of pancreas, mentally ill person has disorder way of thinking and feeling. It is also unable to be detected since very beginning. The sudden attack surely harms the surrounding. Therefore, mentally ill students should immediately be expelled from school.

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Learning by Various Intelligences

Education is changing. In this global era, everyone has thought that education is the most important thing to have. School is a common place to get a mountain of information. Nowadays, people realize schools are covered by classic things, such as in scoring, giving explanations, and also from the media used. This reality is in opposite with some educationalists invention that basically each person has miscellany styles in learning, based on their intelligences. Those types of learning can be classified to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. According to the educationalists invention, government should ask schools to apply those three types of learning than keep apply the classics.

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