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Parents send their children to school with the best of intentions, believing that formal education is what kids need to become productive, happy adults. Many parents do have qualms about how well schools are performing, but the conventional wisdom is that these issues can be resolved with more money, better teach­ers, more challenging curricula, or more rigorous tests. But what if the real problem is school itself? The unfor­tunate fact is that one of our most cherished institu­tions is, by its very nature, failing our children and our society.

Children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restricted, far more than most adults would tolerate in their workspaces. In recent decades, we have been compelling them to spend ever more time in this kind of setting, and there is a strong evi­dence that this is causing psychological damage to many of them. And as scientists have investigated how children naturally learn, they have realized that kids do most deeply and fully, and with greatest enthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those school.

Compulsory education has been a fixture of our culture now for several generations. President Obama and Secretary of Education Anne Duncan are so enamored of it that they want even longer school days and years. Most people assume that the basic design of today’s schools emerged from scientific evidence about how children learn. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research. The blueprint for them was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach children to read the Bi­ble, to believe Scripture without questioning it, and to obey authority figures without questioning them. When schools were taken over by the state, made compulsory, and directed toward secular ends, the basic structure and methods of teaching remained unchanged. Subsequent attempts at reform have failed because they have not altered blueprint. The top down, teach­ and ­test method, in which learning is motivated by a system of reward and punishments rather than by curiosity or by any real desire to know, is well designed for indoctrination and obedience train­ing but not much else. It is no wonder that many of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison) or said they hat­ed school and learned despite it, not because of it (like Albert Einstein).

Question: Which of the following has the closest meaning to the word "qualms" (Line 4).

• A. remarks

• B. request

• C. doubts

• D. views

• E. beliefs

What does the writer want from the text?

• to describe commercial TV ads specifically

• to explain how TV ads are broadcasted in TV

  
  

• to present at least two points of view about TV ads

• describe commercial TV ads generally

• to persuade the readers to advertise their product through TV ads

What kind of the text above?

• Explanation

• Cause Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Description

• Discussion

What can be concluded about Dhita Sastrowardoyo?

• She campaigns for taxes

• She is familiar with Ms. Dinata

• She is just a member

• She is a fundraiser

What do we call salutation in a letter ?

• Greeting

• Opening

• Closing

• Conclution

• Introduction

Which part of the letter means 'lam expecting your reply'?

• "I am very interested in becoming your pen pal "

• “ at Kids Pen Pals from The Youth Online Club"

• “Are you enjoying being a Girl Guide?”

• “I am looking forward to hearing from you and becoming friends”

News item is a text that ... .

• presents critical analysis on events or works for readers or public audiences

• is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps

• informs readers about events of the day

• is located near photos that gives important information

7,000 Workers Stage Protest Against New Jobs Law in Jakarta’s Industrial Area

Par. 1 KOMPAS.com – Thousands of workers at the Pulogadung Industrial Area in East Jakarta staged a protest against the passage of the Omnibus Bill on Thursday, October 8.

Par. 2 The protesters, who claimed their number has increased to 7,000 from 5,000 people on the first day, paralyzed the industrial area in the Indonesian capital.

Par. 3 “We ensure that there are no production activities in this industrial area because of the strike. We have sent out notices and 7,000 people marched through the streets of the industrial area,” protest coordinator Hilman Firmansyah told Kompas.com on Thursday.

Par. 4 During the protest, they approached each factory or company in the Pulogadung Industrial, calling employees to join the strike.

Par. 5 The protesters persuaded the companies to allow their employees in the rallies. “We have been persuading the workers and management representatives for the rallies,” he said. “We hope the demonstration will create an impact. We just want our voices to be heard,” he added.

The worthy event can be found in paragraph....

• Paragraph 1

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3

• Paragraph 4

To inform the readers/listeners about a newsworthy event.

• Source (s)

• Social Function

• Language Features

• Simple Past Tense

Hit, Plan, Observe

• Passive Voice

• Action Verbs

• Source (s)

• Social Function