Senior Project Flashcards
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Title: Average of Minds
Information: Francis Galton was a well known statistician in the 1800s who conformed three notions through a test of averages. A group of subjects took a test and the results separated them into three groups. Galton assumed that each group was good/bad at the same things. Beginning of the grading system.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Human Behavior
Information: Each human has different character traits and behaviors which don’t allow for any type of fixed result expectancy.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Thorndikians Ranks
Information: Thorndike was a popular leader in education who believed that kids needed to be put into groups of averages so that they can be put to the right field of work.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Bloom’s Taxonomy
Information: Ben Bloom another popular leader in education confirmed through a case study that just because you can retain information quick doesn’t mean you learn quick.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: The Perfect Resume
Information: Multiple large companies have been more focused on specific human skill-sets than just holding a piece of paper that says you graduated from college. Someone may be great at coding but know nothing about a degree. Vice versa.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Individuality
Information: The common life pathway paved by others should not be seen as the path for everyone due to differences in every human aspect.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Comparisons
Information: Most people’s lives are lived comparing their results to the “average” and trying to provide a better result than the average.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Attributes
Information: Lots of stereo-types hang around the mental level of a physical appearance which are completely false.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Learning Process
Information: Most believe in one learning process which is as far wrong possible. There is no specific way to learn which makes the modern education system too focused on the average performance.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Development
Information: The best result for bypassing average is for one to focus on their strong-suit and build up that passion.
Source:
Rose, Todd. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness. Penguin
Books, 2017.
Title: Perspective
Information: In the book, the author learns from a poor Father and a wealthy Father. Two perspectives of beliefs in the education system show which side makes more sense.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Graduates
Information: A large percentage of college graduates end up with a loan on their back for a long period of time. To get a degree you have to attain an expense which will bring down someone over time.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Wrong Expenses
Information: Bills that you are paying all the time which don’t make you money. Too many people pile expenses onto themselves.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Income Generating Assets
Information: Something that builds you up financially through a consistent return.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Financial Literacy
Information: An understanding of money that even high-income people have issues with - which causes issues financially such as paying bills.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Ego
Information: Buying liabilities to keep up with someone will end in downfall instead of building up cashflow.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Work
Information: Working eight hours a day for an un-passionate job is just giving power and wealth to the boss.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Doubt
Information: Opportunities are everywhere & endless but most doubt themselves due to standards of working a job.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Reality
Information: Robert states that in order to find mind power you have to create a reason to become bigger than reality.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Difference
Information: Differentiating yourself from a normal life will lead to abnormal results if executed properly.
Source:
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
RichDad, 2000.
Title: Compulsory Education Laws
Information: In 1852 the laws were passed in Mass. to require every town to offer primary education for children.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Consequences
Information: If parents didn’t allow their children to go to school they received fines, or at worst lost custody of their children.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Other States
Information: For the remaining states where the law wasn’t passed yet, the only real education being provided was through paid tuition.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Immigration
Information: As more people were arriving from different areas, different states passed the laws in order to make the immigrant children “the same” as the other children.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Child Labor
Information: During these times child labor was not illegal, and by requiring children to go to school factories were losing lots of cheap labor. This caused an issue in Alabama where they had to repeal the law.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: The Last State
Information: The last state to pass the compulsory education law was Mississippi. All the way in 1917 was when the law was finally passed in the state.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Enforcement
Information: It took a while for America to come to the realization that they needed children in school, so for a while the laws were never truly enforced in every single area.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Exemption
Information: In 1972 a law was passed in Wisconsin that required Amish children to only attend school up to 8th grade.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Current-Day
Information: As of 2018, the laws are very strict for kids to go to school from K-12th grade.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: Dropout
Information: Some states allow for students to dropout based on a specific age or grade level.
Source:
“Compulsory Education Laws: Background.” Findlaw, education.findlaw.com/education-options
/compulsory-education-laws-background.html.
Title: The Monitorial System
Information: The first education type taught to students. Teachers taught the smart students and the smart students taught the kids who had issues learning.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s
Title: More Students
Information: At this time (1800s) the teachers used the monitorial system because there were so many students that ranged in ages.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s
Title: Ranging Subjects
Information: Most small towns had one main teacher that had to teach multiple different subjects on different levels. The curriculum was much more simple then than it is now.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s
Title: Transportation
Information: If you ever talked to someone who was a kid during these times, they would tell you how they had to walk miles in order to get to school.. because there were no buses to take you.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s
Title: Discipline
Information: A main focus for the schools was to discipline students and raise them to be mature and well behaved.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s
Title: Lunch
Information: If your mom didn’t pack you a lunchbox you were out of luck because a majority of the schools did not offer any food at all.
Source:
“11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s.” Mental Floss, 7 Jan. 2016,
http://mentalfloss.com/article
/58705/11-ways-school-was-different-1800s