Conformity In today’s western society, parents raise their children based on their own experiences and identities in an effort to be produce children that they view as successful. Author Andrew Solomon defines the traits that children share with their parents as “vertical identities” (369). However, someone may have an “acquired trait that is foreign to his or her parents,” which Solomon defines as a “horizontal identity” (370). His essay “Son” discusses how horizontal identities are viewed as weaknesses
his schooling at the Gymnasium, he showed a big interest in philosophy, logic and Kant's work involving the nature of knowledge obtained from experience with reality. His education then continued at Jena, where he studied philosophy and came to disagree with his instructor Fichte precisely because he had taught him to think in a logical manner. He wrote some essays and tutored the children. During these years, his tutoring job incited his interest in educational reform. Herbart came to know Pestalozzi
became a simple and efficient way of connecting people all across the globe at lightning speed. Social media became a revolutionary outlet for people to express their thoughts and feelings. Using it to share our moments and everyday experience with people was very easy to learn and it became quite addicting. Growing communities such as Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, made it possible for one to form an identity online in the comfort of their home. In her essay, “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore
trafficking. He says it depends on how it is done. He brings in his article, a statement printed on the State Department website that says that there is a greater demand for human trafficking victims and nearly always an increase in the number of women and children trafficked into the sex slavery. In a very interesting way, he parallels this argument with the state of Nevada where the number of foreign sex slaves should have been abundant if the logic followed. Strangely enough, the Netherlands, Australia and
Ancient education was monopolistic in nature as it gave specific privileges to certain communities while depriving the others to have access to education. Ancient Indian education was in the hands of Brahmins who inculcated for thousands of years a sense of spirituality and religious values