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  2. Educational inflation - Wikipedia

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    The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Princeton University Press. Randall Collins, "Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification", American Sociological Review, Vol. 36, No. 6. (Dec., 1971), pp. 1002-1019 (for the earliest discussion of how credential inflation operates, see 1015 ...

  3. Banking model of education - Wikipedia

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    The term banking model of education was first used by Paulo Freire in his highly influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. [1] [2] Freire describes this form of education as "fundamentally narrative (in) character" [3]: 57 with the teacher as the subject (that is, the active participant) and the students as passive objects.

  4. The Case Against Education - Wikipedia

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    The first recommendation is that government needs to sharply cut education funding, since public education spending in the United States across all levels tops $1 trillion annually. [13] The second recommendation is to encourage greater vocational education, because students who are unlikely to succeed in college should develop practical skills ...

  5. Monetary system - Wikipedia

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    The alternative to a commodity money system is fiat money which is defined by a central bank and government law as legal tender even if it has no intrinsic value. Originally fiat money was paper currency or base metal coinage, but in modern economies it mainly exists as data such as bank balances and records of credit or debit card purchases, [3] and the fraction that exists as notes and coins ...

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    Categories/Topics: Personal essays, memoirs manuscripts and feature stories of interest to the writing community hands working on a laptop at home Get Paid to Write Using Freelance Websites

  7. First-year composition - Wikipedia

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    First-year composition (sometimes known as first-year writing, freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in US colleges and universities. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and ...

  8. Educational system - Wikipedia

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    The educational system [1] generally refers to the structure of all institutions and the opportunities for obtaining education within a country. It includes all pre-school institutions, starting from family education, and/or early childhood education, through kindergarten, primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, then lyceums, colleges, and faculties also known as Higher education (University ...

  9. The Philosophy of Money - Wikipedia

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    The Philosophy of Money (1900; German: Philosophie des Geldes) [1] is a book on economic sociology by German sociologist and social philosopher Georg Simmel. [2] Considered to be the theorist's greatest work, Simmel's book views money as a structuring agent that helps people understand the totality of life.