Education Around The World

Schlosser refers to the Joe Camel ad campaign, which used a “hip cartoon character to sell cigarettes.” A 1991 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that nearly all of America’s six-year-olds could identify Joe Camel, who was just as familiar to them as Mickey Mouse. Interestingly enough, another study found that one-third of cigarettes illegally sold to minors was in fact Camels. Not only do advertisers need a way to get kids to want their product, they also need children to be able to persuade their parents into buying them that product. The concept of children persuading other people to buy them what they want is known as the “surrogate salesmen.” James U. McNeal’s, professor of marketing at Texas A&M University, classified kids nagging tactics into seven major categories; pleading, persistent, forceful, demonstrative, sugar-coated, threatening, and pity based appeals. Kids learn what appeal or style works best on their parents and stick to that ploy whenever they want something.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” These are words spoken by Nelson Mandela that I strongly agree with.

Martin Luther King is quoted as saying: “Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of true education.” As I continue to develop as a person and meaningful and flourishing part of society, I aspire to attend a university that represents academic excellence, diversity and leadership in transformation. Nelson Mandela was once quoted as saying: “Education is the most powerful weapon which

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Mandela, N (n.d.)

In today’s society, most state colleges have become more comparable to businesses rather than universities. It is a competition between them to see who can

I agree with this quote the most even though it was said by one of the most brutal dictators in the world, Josef Stalin. Education is an extremely powerful object that you need to use carefully. In other words supply the student with the correct and fact-based answer rather than an answer that you think is correct.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

Now all types of institutions - public and private, two year and four year, non-profit and for-profit-are vying for the same pool of students, public funding, research grants, and prestige. In the process they are creating a fierce competition that is slowly chipping away at higher education’s commitment to servicing public needs. (Couturier, 2005, p. 87)

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela.

Higher education is a very profitable field, and because of that, for-profit schools have been placed under scrutiny. In the documentary College Inc., Michael Smith, the correspondent, investigates the promise and tremendous growth of for-profit colleges in the higher education industry. With the student’s best interests in mind, many people have begun to question the integrity of these schools. However, they do not take into account the benefits that these for-profit colleges can offer to non-traditional students, giving them the opportunity to obtain a quality education, and marketable job skills. For-profit colleges are continuously accepting the abundance of students who have realized

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

The United States has always been a main attraction for international students to gain intellectual knowledge, technical skills, cross-cultural experience, and better opportunities for professional development (Han, Han, Luo, Jacobs, & Jean-Baptiste, 2013; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). According to the Institute of International Education (2017), in the academic year of 2015/2016, there was an increase of 7% in the number of international student pursuing higher education in the United States over the previous year with total international students of 1,043,839 and 5.2% representing the total of U.S College enrollment. International students make higher education one of the largest service sector exports in the United States (Rice, Choi, Zhang, Morero, & Anderson, 2012; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). They are regarded as a vital financial commodity for countries

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela. Without education, there is simply no telling of what this world would be like. There wouldn’t be doctors, lawyers, businesses etc. Life and everything around us would be fatuous. Schools and education give us a plan in life and help guide us. Throughout the years education has changed tremendously. It had its improvements throughout the decades, and it also has had its falters as well. Education in America is an issue in this country and it definitely needs to be tweaked and improved. Education is what makes us people who we are and what we will be. Nelson Mandela had it right, there is no weapon more powerful than education.

“Schooling the world” was a film based on schools around the world. The Director Carol Black focuses on India schooling and American schooling. The purpose of this film is to show that Americans think education should be one way and not different ways. The schooling in India has changed over time and locals are struggling with the changes. In the older schooling in India is was based on crops and the community. Very few people went to school, but many worked in the fields and in homes. Children are now being sent to boarding school in other towns and leaving their homes to get a better education. Many small towns in India are struggling with the new concept of learning and young people's views on money and communities. Throughout the film I agreed with most of the points in the film, I do disagree with some of the views the older Indian generation has.

Food advertisements, if focused at the right people and in the right places, are a complete success. These features, some of which are commercials, seduce society into buying food that we necessarily do not need. Many advertisement companies, especially those about food, are directed to children because they know that if you grab the kids you have their parents. While brands are using fun cartoons like “Trix Rabbit” and “Toucan Sam” (Green, 2007, p. 49) supermarkets are taking these items and placing them right in front of the children, at their level, advertising the “Fun foods” (Elliot, 2008, p. 259-273). They do this so the kids will use their, “pester power” (Scholsser, n.d., p. 2) to get what they want. A series of studies have been performed on children and television advertisements. An article states, “These studies have generally linked children's television viewing to negative health effects” (Korr, 2008, p. 451). Amongst these negative effects is a higher level of childhood obesity (p. 451). Similarly, in another study performed by a group of researchers, kids were asked to explain the television commercials that they remembered the best. The answers given were then compared with their diets. Interestingly, the items those children remembered best, chips, sweets, and sodas were a huge part of what they ate (Hitching & Moynihan, 1998, p. 511-517). However, some authors argue that television producer’s, even though their