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NSTA:  National Science Teachers Association is a teaching organization that progressively acts to education teachers and allow them to share ideas.

While we are trying so hard to have Chinese test scores and mimic hard core education, highly standardized test curriculum--they are trying to mimic ours.

A Montessori school is a type of school that implements the idea of alternative learning. This type of learning is embraced on 6 continents and all over the United States. The ideology behind this system encourages an environment with more freedom and individuality.

There is a difference between education and schooling that was brought to my attention by this piece. To go to school and learn is a separate action from receiving an education. Education is a self-initiated action, an endeavor undertaken to better understand the world around you and grow as a person. Trough education t You learn the value of human life and how to think as an individual. Schooling is a task controlled by others, where you are fed others opinions and others ideas and it is for the purpose of others. Gatto argues that the problem with education in America is that we are schooling our children rather than educating them.

I've always said I wanted cars to be able to drive themselves because I always get so tired when I'm driving... Imagine the time we could save if while we drove we could actually be reading or napping or just enjoying the road instead of focusing on the stress of it. This would create less accidents- but what would happen if the computer crashed.. can we really put our lives in the hand of a machine? Is this showing how dependent on technology we've become; we think we cannot even drive our own cars? What would happen to traffic police?