Blog Assignment #4: Grades

In today’s society education is crucial. Not only should you graduate upper secondary school you should also get a Collage education to get a good job. To do all this you will need good grades otherwise there is a good chance you will not get admission to the program you want, either in Upper secondary school or Collage. Today this hunt for good grades starts in 8th but since the new governments’ decision it will soon start in 6th grade. It is my opinion that grades should be kept out of primary school.

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When I went to the senior level of the “grundskola” I only studied to get good grades. All my time went to reading book, practicing for exams and getting those grades that sooner would get me in to that popular programme at Upper secondary school. I studied so hard that I did not do anything else because the grades were too important to me. Even whet I got in to Upper secondary school the hunt for the good grades continued because these grades were, if possible, even more important for my future. Studying should not be about grades it should be about learning and educate your self.

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Grades do not actually tell you anything about your knowledge- it tells you how good you are at studying. You might say it is a grade of your studying skills in that typical subject. Because that is just what it is! You study for tests and exams and when it is over the knowledge is gone as well. I often said that if anyone should give me an exact copy of a test a week after the actually test I would fail it miserably. Many with me push all this facts into our head and keep it there until the test is done. Then we leave the knowledge we stored in our head right there in the exam room pretty muck gone forever.

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Some say that grades actually motivate you to do better in school and take better responsibility of your studies and those grades could easily be introduced earlier than 6th grade for even better results. Learning and getting new knowledge should be fun, interesting and motivating and grades immediately takes that out of your education when grades with all the stress and pressure have a great tendency to take away the purpose of our education- life long knowledge.

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To let the children in school get the most of their education think it is unnecessary with grades. And if it has to be grades I think they should be introduced as late as possible to let the children have more use of and fun with their new won knowledge.

Blog Assignment #3: Climate Change

Even though climate change has been a realization for quite some time now we still do not do enough to prevent or decrease it. The world is heating up, polar ices are melting, animal species are being extinct and environment catastrophes are a part of our every day life. Although this is the truth of today we put our head in the sand and pretend like nothing is happening, why is what?
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Most of us live normal lives with a job and a family in a middle sized town and are happy with that. This is our life, this is our world! We live here and now and this is it. The fact that this life that you are living right now in this moment, that thing you are do right now and the place you are living in is all a part of something bigger. Just that thing, that we all are and have a part in something bigger might be too much to handle for most people. It is too much to understand, to abstract, so we just push it a side.
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We all watch the news or read the news papers and almost everyday you hear of villages getting flooded, cities being wiped out by tornados, water rising, water disappearing, ice bears not having enough ice to live at etc. All this because of climate change caused by us. But it is in Africa, South America or some other place around the world- it is not happening here. As long as you and the ones closest to you are safe and not bothered of this climate change it is difficult to motivate a change.
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It does not matter how aware we are of the climate change if we do not think that we can actually make a change. Most of us do not believe that what we, I- one single human being, do make a difference in a bigger perspective and therefore does not do anything at all.
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It is a fact that everything we humans do effect the word and the environment in one way or another, in a small or big extend. But it is difficult to realize that what you do here i Sweden effects not only the climate change far away on the other side of the globe but also here, right outside your window. It is happening and even thought you might not think that you can make a difference- You can, so do it!