Talk:Education/Archive 1

message: The introduction to this article seems to go off on quite a tangent with all the talk of teachers, and almost casually disregarding the wealth of information that has been written on education. Wouldn't all the talk of teachers, while certainly related to the subject, be best suited to an article on teachers? --Impaciente 06:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I moved the portal links up to the top of the article, as they seemed to be a bit too out of the way all the way down by the bottom. --Impaciente 06:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: *The section on education in developing nation appears to need some work. I copied it (the section in italics) to the talk page so we can work on it without cluttering up the main article. Kerowyn 03:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Developing Countries 

message: Is the list of Prominent educationalists really pertinent to this article AnyFile 13:54, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prominent educationalists 

message: The Formal education section show the US and similar way and name scheme. Other nation use different scheme (but in my opinion is hard to give an complete list of all the possibilities) AnyFile 13:57, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is little more than a list of links anyway, so anything you can add would help! But these titles (primary, secondary, tertiary education) fit with other systems too, they are used by UNESCO's International Standard Classification of Education  - or were you thinking of something else? Saintswithin 16:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal education internationalization 

message: That article is conspicuously missing from Wikipedia. Michael Hardy 03:41, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[list of education topics]]

message: The section "Challenges in education" is rather unencyclopedic in parts. It has an essay-like style -- "Should some knowledge be forgotten? What should be taught, are we better off knowing how to build nuclear bombs, or is it best to let such knowledge be forgotten?" -- and is rather long for its content. Also, some statements are POV, despite not being extremely controversial, for example:
*"The grades usually come in the form of either a letter grade or a percentage, which ideally represents the amount of all material presented in class that the student understood. These grades do not reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a student."
*"Education should be engaging, children should learn by themselves with guidance and direction being given by teachers, instead of prodding and forcing students to complete assignments. Education should be changed so that there is no 'pass' or 'fail', but specific ability and knowledge tests that will build into a student knowledge that he can use in the future, rather than just testing aptitude of a student. Education is the imparting of knowledge, not the continous testing of knowledge, it should be about skills that students can recreate for the rest of their life, rather than a mark they can show."
It also ends with a comment on the article text itself:
*"The below should be edited by someone with ideas of how to improve education because it does injustice to say that we are the best that we can be - education as we have it now is better than not having any at all. But it leaves much to be desired."
I've listed the article on WP:Cleanup with a note on this, and I considered just brutally cutting most of it, but before doing that, I'd like to give someone with better knowledge of the subject a chance to salvage anything that could be useful. / Alarm 23:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenges in education section 

message: I removed this sentence: "Some critics charge that time is often spent in mathematics classes reteaching students the basic concepts they should recall from the year before, because students have forgotten most of it. " - which education system is this referring to (which country?) and is there a nameable, quotable source? (See WP:AWT) Saintswithin 06:47, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: forgetting their maths

message: The Human Development Index (HDI) is a standard UN measure/rank of how developed a country is or is not.  It is a composite index based on GDP per capita (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, and school enrollment.  However, as it is a composite index/rank, some may challenge its usefulness or applicability as information.
Thus, the following question is put to a vote:
Should any, some, or all of the following be included in the Wikipedia country infobox/template:
:(1)  Human Development Index (HDI) for applicable countries, with year;
:(2)  Rank of country’s HDI;
:(3)  Category of country’s HDI (high, medium, or low)?
YES / NO / UNDECIDED/ABSTAIN - vote here
Thanks!
E Pluribus Anthony 01:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''[[Template_talk:Infobox_Country#VOTE.21.21_-_HDI_in_country_infobox.2Ftemplate.3F|VOTE!!]]''' - HDI in [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes#Countries|country infobox]]/template? 

message: 'Nuff said. :) 204.52.215.107 04:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: in the war agains error  --138.217.248.20 09:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Education systems are Weapons of Mass Instruction

message: would you like to publish this article? -- Zondor 22:25, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  publication 

message: Substituted at 20:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment