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Teachers like to assign students writing an essay about their vacation or some holidays. After Christmas vacation, students come to school and they need to describe the way the spent Christmas. For many students it is quite a difficult task, because they can hardly think of something new and write common things in their essay. Indeed, not many children are lucky to spend Christmas or winter vacation skiing or at some exotic place. Instead, they watch TV or go to various Internet pages, watching funny links. Anyway, teachers should motivate students to express their vision of this holiday. Because despite the way we spend Christmas, we all have our feelings about this holiday and it is good if students can express those feelings.

Writing is one of most popular activities among students because professors and teachers often assign students to write various essays and papers. In order to write proper papers, students should definitely have nice inborn writing skills. But of course they can acquire and master writing skills in the process of studying and various tools may turn more than helpful. There are many books, CDs, courses that are to improve one’s writing. Besides, today students may find a lot of very useful writing tips in the Internet and apply those when writing. Even after graduation writing skills will be in need, for example, when former students will face the necessity of resume writing.

Not so many youngsters want to study to become physicians, because it is a well-known fact that future physicians have quite a long educational path. However, if you want to get this noble profession, you should be prepared to learn a lot. Students of medical or healthcare departments read a lot of materials on medical issues. And that has its logic, because physicians cure us and thus are in charge of society’s health as a whole. To be a physician is extremely responsible and no wonder that it requires perfect education and qualifications.

It is always much more convenient to learn something if you have some manual or guidelines. For example, you will hardly get along with a new technological device if you have no manual to it. That is just for studying as well. If you start learning some new discipline, it is more than desirable that you should have written syllabus and some guideline materials with useful and helpful information. Students desperately need recommendations on various themes and of various directions, because educational path is easier gone through if guided by wise teachers.

Along with providing knowledge, teachers should also stimulate students’ thinking. Actually, we can get knowledge in any sphere if we want that, but what is really crucial is to know how to use that knowledge and how to apply it. That is why it is really great if teachers come up with suggestions on how to teach students think and if they manage to put those suggestions into life. Thinking is the basis, while knowledge adds to this basis and provides overall intellectual activity. If a person is able to come up with new ideas it will mean eventual success. For this reason, from first days at school children have to get not only information but get an impetus to develop thinking.

Writing social essays is considered to be quite a complicated assignment for school students. Firstly, because a student has to express his original point of view and that is not an easy task. Not all students are aware of some social problems and not all students have their vision. Besides, if you have to write an essay about socially important issues, you have to search for information and conduct even kind of a research in order to be acquainted with the problem. Of course, one cannot forget that to write a good essay one needs to have nice writing skills or at least follow tips. Some teachers even develop their lists of tips and offer to students to make writing process a bit easier.

Literature classes are quite popular among students, especially those who love to reflect and speak about their reflections. But literature classes are necessary not only for lovers of humanities, but for all students, because studying literature enriches personality. Indeed, when you read books and, especially, when you discuss stories, plots, hidden senses, you develop your thinking and get emotional satisfaction. Sure, that cannot be attributed to all students, because some people do not like to share their thoughts or just do not enjoy literature. But even they eventually have to write some literature review and that may cause certain difficulties to them. But today there are so many resources and links to databases of reviews and other useful writing that even those who do not like literature may found helpful information and tips on how to write their essays. Sure, some students get real pleasure from writing essays, especially literary essays and give way to their imagination and reflections while writing.

When speaking on most unpleasant things about high schools or universities, many students point to various tests, checks and exams. No wonder. All people are afraid of being estimated; especially if they feel that they didn’t do all they had to. That is just for all spheres of life, but education is even more characterized with such fears of checks. Because teaching itself presupposes that sooner or later those who are taught have to be evaluated and their progress has to be tracked and estimated. And facing the necessity to be evaluated is almost always stressful. Besides, students are often afraid of bad grades, because they are afraid of disappointing their parents or teachers. That is why a student will rather write an article to school digest then pass some test.

Essays are often mentioned in the list of “disliked assignments”, because many students feel difficulty with expressing their thoughts on paper or with expressing thoughts at all. Writing is mostly popular among students who prefer humanities. For example most people who like literature like to reflect on various books, heroes, literature concepts and genres, etc. But what about students who are better in solving mathematics tasks or enjoy some technical disciplines? They also need to be taught on how to write texts and how to express viewpoint in a written form. Professional teachers know various methods of teaching and they should find some suitable ones for those who absolutely dislike essay writing, because despite our specialization we all need to know at least basics on how to express what we think in a written form.

Schools perform not only educational function, although there are no doubts that education is an essential element of schools’ activity. Schools also provide students communication channels. This function is really essential, because communication may and in most cases boosts up studying process. What is more, schools and universities create their communities and each member of that community has a feeling of belonging and that has a good impact on students. Really, college life has several dimensions and communicational dimension is one of key ones, because without communication hardly any educational process can be successful.

“Abolishing home assignments” sounds like a manifesto statement from some hypothetical “Party of School Students” or whatever. Really, so many students feel like that when they face some new assignment in their homework list. But most people and even students realize that if they want to get solid knowledge going to school or college is not enough. One needs to do a lot of things independently from tutor or teacher, but under his control in most cases. Besides, self-education is good in terms that you develop your own technique of studying and get more independent, which will definitely bear fruit in future. Students face necessity to do a lot of written assignments at home, like, for example, writing opinion essay on educational matters or preparing some project about native town. And in most cases being successful in preparing such assignments makes you more self-disciplined, and thus contributes into your development as a personality.

Despite a doubtful fact that we are all born special and we all have individual approaches, viewpoints, problems and concerns. Today a lot of students create their own web-pages, or use live journals and blogs to speak of their worries, feelings and thoughts. At the same time, students as social group have a lot of common concerns. And employment opportunities are probably most shared among students. Indeed, most students start thinking of their professional since the very first days in university. A lot of them even have part-time jobs in the course of studying, because they have no financial support. Besides, there are students who enjoy doing some volunteer work like gathering donations for charity purposes. Besides, most students are concerned about their leisure time and want to spend it as well as possible which makes them search for various spare time options.

Internet has definitely changed our lives and if some years ago mostly youngsters enjoyed communication on-line or some lone people, now the situations is quite different. Internet communities are so popular that they turn into interesting social phenomena. People even spend working hours chatting in forums or writing posts at blogs. Sure, quality of work gets worse if you are distracted from your job by your friends waiting for you on-line. That is why a lot of companies ban certain sites and employees are deprived of possibility to communicate via Internet services. On the other hand, it is good if people can get inspiration from communication, even if it is on-line communication. Anyway, job shouldn’t be substituted by chatting in the Internet. However, Internet communication may have some advantages and it might be used while working.

Some people enjoy going to school, because they show nice results or because they just like learning as such. However, not all students are happy to get up and go to school from day to day. That is especially a problem when a student feels he cannot cope with assignments. Sure, much depends on the student. If a student possesses strong will, he will certainly try to find honest and effective methods of problem resolution. But some students prefer cheating to honest but difficult way. Today anyone can go to a special website and order some essay or even course work. No intellectual resources are needed and some students quite often use services of such kind. It should not be tolerated. Teachers must not humiliate students, even those, who plagiarized their assignment, but they should be strict, honest and ready to find an adequate solution. For example, they can help students, giving some extra classes to them or editing essays, at least for several times.

When writing a resume, most people think that they should include “a good team player” option in their resume in order to meet requirements of this or that company. It is a widely accepted opinion that to succeed in any company one has to be a good team player. Why is it so? Actually, this opinion has real grounds because you can hardly do well if you do not share company’s philosophy or do not interact actively with each member of your team. Of course, there are some spheres where extensive individualism is really popular or even essential. Thus, if you are a writer, for example, you have to rely on your reflections, on your talent, rather than on someone’s shoulder, ideas, etc. However, even in art team may turn to play significant role. If to speak about education, team work may be both a methodological approach in educational process and a good way to promote social interaction among students.

It is a widely known fact that the smaller a child is the easier it will be for the child to learn something new, especially when it concerns foreign languages. Those people who started learning some foreign language while kids demonstrate much better pronunciation (of course, if they were taught correctly) and they strive to learn even more languages. That is why each school should offer not nominal but real opportunities to learn as many foreign languages as possible. There should be classes which would develop students’ inclinations to study foreign languages. And that is preferable since first grades. It is great when some schools offer Chinese courses, because knowledge of such languages as Chinese can bring a lot of advantages and, besides, we should not forget about one more aspect, when people know languages of each other they get to understand each other better.

Since establishment of secondary education as such, there were numerous attempts to improve educational process and increase efficiency. Such attempts are constantly taken by various state agencies, ministries and schools administrations. That is because education is one of key social issues that interests public in all times. Experiments with school curriculum are quite frequent because curriculum is probably the core of educational program. Teachers work out new technologies in order to make curriculum adequate to the needs of society and challenges of world development. However, not always those experiments are successful and sometimes give birth to misunderstandings and disagreement between parents, children, teachers and state authorities in charge of education. That is why when there is a need to implement some major changes into educational process, a special forum of various representatives should be arranged in order to discuss as many points as possible.

Kids of today are real experts in computers. Sure, this tendency is not brand new, because computers are already usual companions in our daily life. But nowadays children are so much accustomed to computers that their language is full of computer slang words and they think often in terms of computers, software, Internet, etc. It is an interesting phenomenon and what is more interesting, so that is the question of whether psychological characteristics of modern children are much different from previous generations. Sure, children perceive a lot of things in a different way. They know that they can search any information in the Internet; they are aware that they can even order research papers or essays online. But maybe there are some fundamental changes in mind, not only in superficial perceptions. That is the question to be researched and discussed.

School is about studying, first of all. But no child in the world can study for 6 or even more hours daily. One needs some change of activity, some entertainment. That has practical dimension as well. When you get some rest and relaxation, although it may be active, you will work more productively afterwards. Thus, for example, if school students arrange some humor shows or concerts, or sports competition, they get a lot of positive energy. Indeed, if you constantly make various assignments, write essays, prepare some projects, search  - Internet heavily and spend a lot of time on the computer, it is natural to get exhausted. That is why schools should offer captivating activities for students, along with interesting studying process. This will ensure effectiveness of overall educational process.

Most people have at least basic education, because one can hardly achieve any results in professional sphere if one doesn’t have adequate educational background. The whole network of various schools, colleges, universities is created and by its means millions of people get education and knowledge. At the same time some people claim that they would rather get knowledge by themselves, without assistance from tutors or without going to college from day to day. Can such self-education turn effective? Actually, it can, because if you possess incentive and know what you want to learn, you will achieve success. Sure, you have to possess proper time-management and organizational skills, because only you will be in charge of educational process. Anyway, it is always good to strive for knowledge and develop yourself. However, one should not forget about experience of the others, which may turn quite helpful as well.

We all come to a point when we have to decide what to do next. And it’s not only about minor decisions, but rather about global decisions that change our lives and that may turn even fatal. Not every 18-year old teenager can say that he knows what his calling is and that is why prospects of choosing profession for oneself seem quite challenging. Of course, one can ask some pieces of advice from parents or teachers, but there’s a threat that a high school graduate will choose what is recommended rather than listening to personal aspirations. That is why a lot of university graduates find out that what they chose as job for them is not what they really need. However, it is never late to change your sphere of activity and try something new.

The word “successful” is so much appealing to most people, despite their sphere of activity or educational background. So, we want to be successful, we want to achieve good results in whatever we are doing, we want respect and we long to be appreciated by others. Most people perceive their job as a source for their success. They make efforts in order to achieve results and efficiency while fulfilling their authorities. But there are also people who don’t want to go up career ladder. Instead, they believe that they may be successful in other spheres. They believe that family life can become their way to self-actualization. And one can hardly argue about both viewpoints, because it is our individual choice we make and we ourselves can decide whether we our successful or not.

In modern age people tend to pay more and more attention to professional growth. Hardly one is considered successful if he or she hasn’t managed to get up career ladder. Today profession is an essential element of one’s self-actualization. Career opportunities became the subject of advertisement along with travel opportunities, etc. Numerous links to vacancies are as usual as free screensavers. However people still ask themselves what place career should take in the list of life priorities. Some are sure about first positions, while others doubt that life is worth spending for work only and prefer creating comfort at home, both materialistic and moral. Actually, no career can substitute human warmth and family relations or friendship. That is for sure. Well, majority would probably agree that ‘the golden mean’ is the best option.

Teenagers are often attracted by the idea of becoming a journalist, especially, a TV journalist or reporter. It seems that life of journalists is full of interesting events and incredible acquaintances. However, journalism is not only about communication with outstanding people and visiting incredible places. Being a journalist means doing a lot of routine work as well. You have to be always aware of all latest news, read a lot of daily press-releases and be extremely attentive to everything around. Very soon one may get tired of such active life, because you can’t just take vacation if you are doing a serious work. You have to be in the discourse of the whole matter. That is why journalists are quite prone to be tired of profession. However, as everything, it is quite relative. Some people can’t live another way and journalism makes sense of their life. One thing is certain, you have to be ready to all aspects of journalism work before making a crucial decision to become one of journalists.

Studying in university has so many various aspects and peculiarities that it is probably impossible to recollect everything in one speech or even essay. What is really great about studying in university or college is that you not only get knowledge or academic degree, your social life is full-fledged, indeed. Various activities, constant interaction with peers and professors, this all enriches daily life. Many people agree with the point that what you get while studying in the university stays with you forever. And it’s not only about knowledge; it’s about your environment. Sure, your final thesis is the project that demonstrates what you learned during your studies and may play a crucial role in your professional life even. However, what you get from daily communication in your university may turn no less crucial for you.