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importance of sports in the life of a young student is invaluable
and goes much further than the basic answer that "it keeps
kids off the streets." It does in fact keep kids off the
streets, but it also instills lessons that are essential in the
life of a student athlete. Sports play a pivotal role in the
makeup of a young athlete, especially in the middle school to high
school years where student athletes are much more mature and
mentally developed. Where else can a young, impressionable youth
learn values like discipline, responsibility, self-confidence,
sacrifice, and accountability? What do you think about the role of
sport in student’s life? And how can sport improve the students’
life?
verybody
must go in for sport. Television, which may be the most
influential tool in the lives of young adults, does not show
enough of these qualities, nor is it on the Internet, or radio.
Rather it is up to the parents, teachers, sports teams, clubs, and
after school programs to help mold, develop, and instill these
qualities into the lives of student athletes. I believe in order
for this to happen, school sports programs must have a few
components in place.
Postgraduate Education
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Watch and listen to the tape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPvQhtwgAg and discuss with your group your hobby.
Interview your favorite teacher about his/ her hobby and make a short report.
1.4. Hobby in My Life
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Post-graduate education (or graduate education in North America) involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education. In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school.
The organization and structure of postgraduate education varies in different countries, and also in different institutions within countries. This article sets out the basic types of course and of teaching and examination methods, with some explanation of their history.
Although systems of higher education go back to ancient Greece, China, the Indian subcontinent and Africa, the concept of postgraduate education depends upon the system of awarding degrees at different levels of study, and can be traced to the workings of European medieval universities. University studies took six years for a Bachelor degree and up to twelve additional years for a master's degree or doctorate. The first six years taught the faculty of the arts, which was the study of the seven liberal arts: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The main emphasis was on logic. Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been obtained, the student could choose one of three faculties - law, medicine, or theology - in which to pursue master's or doctor's degrees. Theology was the most prestigious area of study, and considered to be the most difficult.
T he degrees of master (magister) and doctor were for some time equivalent, "the former being more in favour at Paris and the universities modeled after it, and the latter at Bologna and its derivative universities. At Oxford and Cambridge a distinction came to be drawn between the Faculties of Law, Medicine, and Theology and the Faculty of Arts in this respect, the title of Doctor being used for the former, and that of Master for the latter." Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the doctorate came to be thought of as higher than the master's. The main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach ("doctor" comes from the Latin "docere", meaning "teach"; "magister" is Latin for "master", and often "schoolmaster", and is also the root of "magistrate").