School vs Family in Shaping One's Personality

by Diana-Mara Anghelina - From the first days of our lives, each and every one's family plays a very important role in defining the future grown-up's personality. It is the family who we look up to, from the very beginning of building a character. When they are very young, all the children tend to copy the behavior of their parents. Therefore, when the family does not have a proper attitude tow ...

Date added: 22 February '07

Factors with a Decisive Role for the Integration Process of Gypsies in Society

by Monique Barb - The right to education is one of the fundamental rights of the children. The system of formal education is aimed at transferring knowledge and life skills to all children and teenagers in schools. The skills represent means of using the knowledge in actual life situations and specialists agree on considering creativity and innovative spirit among the life skills that help a ...

Date added: 20 October '06

School Plays a More Important Role than Family in Shaping One's Personality

by Cristina Nuta - When it comes to refer to the shaping of one's personality we should firstly mention the fact that school plays an essential part, maybe more than the influence the family has. In order to confirm this statement we should consider the following arguments. First of all, the personality of each individual begins to take form in the middle of the family and is closely connec ...

Date added: 01 February '07

The Role of Informal Interaction in Teaching English to Young Learners

by Monique Barb - By informal interaction is meant the exchange of ideas, using spoken English, between teacher and learners and among the learners themselves. BilIows (1961) was one of the first language teachers to stress the fact that a language has no life in itself. 'It must live,’ he wrote,’in the mouth of the teacher in relation to the activity and situation of the classroom. It is a ...

Date added: 08 February '07

The Role of Physical Education in the Development of Children

by Herminne Tonita - Schools in Europe devote 1 to 3 hours per week to physical education. Doctors warn that this is much too little. Statistics clearly demonstrate that societies in which physical education gets less time and attention in the school curriculum suffer from more spinal defects and flat foot, and are generally less healthy and more disease prone. Still, lots of pupils, especiall ...

Date added: 08 March '07