Education is a process of imparting knowledge. It is typically associated with the formal, systematic process that includes schools and trained teachers, but also includes the informal "word-of-mouth" method where knowledge is imparted through the telling of stories and folk-tales.
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Did "secular" mean "non-denominational"?
The Reverend Fred Nile MLC is leader of the Christian Democratic Party in Australia. In a letter to a major Australian newspaper on the subject of ethics classes as an alternative to Special Religious Instruction in Australia schools, he wrote of…
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Does Steven Milloy hold the degrees he claims?
Steven Milloy describes himself on Twitter @JunkScience as
Author, 'Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.' Trump EPA transition team. Statistician. Fmr SEC atty, mutual fund mgr, coal exec, & FOXNews columnist.
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Did Brock Chisolm, the first director of the United Nations WHO, say this anti-individualism quote about a "world government"?
Did Brock Chisolm, first Director General of the United Nations World Health Organization, say this quote?
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national…
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Does the US spend more on prisons than public education?
I have heard often that the US as a whole or States in it "spend more on prisons than on schools". This is apparently true for higher education, but I am interested in schools as in public education (guaranteed through age 16 in the US).
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Is this tweet about classes one month after the Hiroshima bombing, and the 2011 tsunami accurate?
https://twitter.com/TheKnowledge/status/593936133358276609
Japan. Top: One Month After Hiroshima, 1945. Bottom: One Month After
The Earthquake and Tsunami, 2011. Incredible.
Are the images genuine, and stemming from the events mentioned?
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Does Montessori daycare lead to higher educational achievement?
A Montessori curriculum contains these elements as essential elements:
Mixed age classrooms, with classrooms for children aged 2½ or 3 to 6 years old by far the most common
Student choice of activity from within a prescribed range of…
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Do flashcards for babies improve literacy or numeracy?
Baby flashcards have grown in popularity. They are advertised with seemingly amazing effects, like 1½ year old reading and counting.
On the other hand academics seem to either say that they don't have long term positive effect, or worse yet, that…
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Is the Western academic dress originally derived from Avicenna's style of clothing?
There is this claim that the Academic Dress (shown below) is originally derived form Avicenna's style of clothing. I wonder if it's true.
Here is a link to a sample of this claim.
Discussion on a Wikipedia talk page.
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Academic dress…
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Does a Portland Public Schools curriculum teach K-5 students to subvert “white colonizers”' sexuality and explore “the infinite gender spectrum”?
A recent article by [conservative activist] Christopher Rufo in City Journal, also cited at various places around the Internet such as The Daily Caller and Why Evolution is True, claims that:
Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the…
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Did textbooks rejected by the Florida DoE contain social-emotional learning or critical race theory?
The Florida department of Education recently claimed to have rejected a number of mathematics textbooks because, the department claimed, they contained elements of Common Core, critical race theory, and social-emotional learning:
The approved list…
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Is dyslexia unheard of in Spain?
I've been told that dyslexia is unheard of in Spain, and presumably other Spanish-speaking cultures, because Spanish is pronounced as it is spelt. Is this true?
Example:
Cases of dyslexia and illiteracy after four years of schooling are extremely…
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Do masters degrees in education improve teaching performance?
Bill Gates makes the claim that Masters degrees don't increase the ability of teachers in his TED talk.
What are the characteristics of this top quartile? What do they look like? You might think these must be very senior teachers. And the answer is…
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Will 1 in 4 American children grow up illiterate?
There's a Kickstarter to bring back Reading Rainbow currently running.
One stat in particular really stands out for me:
Right now, 1 out of every 4 children in America will grow up illiterate.
This is fairly shocking to me, but the Kickstarter…
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Is a better work ethic correlated to the level of education?
I've heard numerous times that less educated people have lower work ethics, but I've never seen any scientific papers on the subject. Is there any correlation between work ethic and level of education?
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Do individuals rise to the level expected of them?
In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Stephen Covey gives an anecdote about a computer error in England in which a group of 'bright' students are accidentally labelled as 'dumb' and a group of 'dumb' students are labelled as 'bright'.
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