Memories Two days ago I started to clean my bedroom, while I was doing it I found a lot of stuff from my childhood. I found three dolls made in Japan, these dolls were given to me as a Christmas presents by my parents. As I looked at them, the memories of my childhood started flooding back to my mind. I clearly remember those days when my siblings and I anxiously waited for our presents; back then like most children I didn´t realize the great sacrifice and effort behind those humble and precious gifts. Now, that I am an adult I wish I could go back and give thanks to my loving parents for their inconditonal love and concern for us.

Introduction to an essay It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion. Which resource is more important? Why? Human beings start gaining knowledge since they are born. The first one comes from experiences. These experiences through the years find support in the knowledge presented in books. In my opinion both resources; experiences and books are vital due that one complements the other.

Education Nowadays theris a system of school organization which separates students into grades by crhonologial age. They start school at the age of six on the first grade therefore, ther is a problema that occurs in this system. The system is not clear that there are some student who have more capacity tan others and they do not hesitat to evaluate kind by kid instead they put all of them in the same group because at the age. For instance those kids wich are more advanced phycologically and physically can be able to learn concepts faster that others, furthermore they achieve the minimun grades required to pass to the next level subsequently, the students that did not obtain enough grades to continue to the next level must review it while theo one that have already passed are simply waiting for them. In the same way some students have to repeat the year and they quit from school they got bored of taking the same casses at eht level again for a year. To conclude the European system of school organization must change because this Project mixes students with different capacitis instead of evaluating each one first and put ehm in their right place, without focusing in the age of the student. Finally this situation continue in these days, many students would not probably have a good preparation

Can we learn a second language as we learned our mother toungue? We learn our mother tongue by association and for the continue exposure to it, we hear our parents talk and we start to utter what we heard; our home environment was in some way our first language school. There we were developing all the skills needed to manage a language and to communicate , we did not have to write, study, rehearse grammatical rules or drill vocabulary cards, it just happened spontaneously. The process that occurs when we learn our first language is discovering as we go along, as a child if we pointed or wanted to know a word, the information came straight from our parents, siblings or any other source like the media just to mention one. Children can acquire another language naturally, without conscious learning as adults do, there are good imitators so for them pronunciation is not an issue also they can figure rules by themselves; some children who have the opportunity to learn a second language use the same innate language learning strategy. Scientific studies have explained that when the process of lateralization in a person´s brain is complete approximately at the age of 10, the chances of acquiring a second language is more challenging and difficult.

Opinion about educations vs creativity Some people claim that before students were more handcrafted and today schools have been taking away that skill and replace it by their standardization, they also say that the way the education that was imparted in the past has changed immensely due to the amount of students taking classes in the same room, which affect the effectiveness of teaching and increases the lack of interaction teacher-student but still these arguments are not exactly the reasons to justify that education is killing creativity.

Education kills Creativity People have their right to give their opinion about what education do to people but from my view point is odd so I am strongly disagree with that. Creativity is a human´s quality. A person can be creative as well as educated. As long as the person draws the line between them, he or she will receive the benefits of combining both of them. Let´s take a look of some undeniable advantages of having an education. First of all education is the tool that allows any person to achieve his or her goals , a door to opportunities that may laid ahead, empowers a person with autonomy to develop his or her potential, improve living standards, increases the participation society, provides knowledge of relevant and important “Education is the most efficient weapon with which to address the world's most pressing problems matters in today´s day.” UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team According to the UNESCO report, "Education Transforms Lives." I agree with those two statements because is the way a see education. There is no shortcut to success I mean real success no only the financial one but the one that brings personal feeling of accomplishment. Creativity is something that each person can develop if he or she is motivated and what a great tool education could play to provide that motivation. Today many big corporations are hunting for people with a great degree of creativity, for example software, online service, marketing and construction companies are eager to find those who can unleash their creativity to innovate their product or services. In fact many entrepreneur invest large amount of money in researching and trying to innovate at high speed their products by using the creativity that usually comes from educated people so is education killing creativity? I believe is the way that education has been applied by schools, institutes and universities that might be the real issue that is preventing or refraining but no killing the students’ creativity to go beyond the learning pattern already established. The only ones who can kill creativity are the students’ attitude and their perspectives if they do not see themselves as a productive thinkers they will stop their inner potential.

If learners are to be autonomous. Why teaching at all? People have been using all types of techology to attract and encourage learnes to be autonomous, which is no bad ,nevertheless learners usually look for someone who can actually teach them in a traditional way and of course using the technology available but keeping the figure of a teacher. If learnes are to be autonomous. Why teaching at all? teaching will never be replaced because as long as the need of learning and teaching exist the simple but incredible influence of a good teacher will remain.

Writing an Essay

I have been asked to write an essay of 500 word the topic is "If learners are to be autonomous. Why teaching at all?  How should I approach this topic.

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