I told her how difficult I was finding it to be away from my son when he clearly needed me
she believes that mothers should be the ones to take care of kids when they have problems. She doesn't explain why her husband couldn't handle it instead, which shows she believes moms are more important than dads for solving family issues
But I could not stop thinking about my 14-year-old son, who had started eighth grade three weeks earlier and was already resuming what had become his pattern of skipping homework, disrupting classes, failing math, and tuning out any adult who tried to reach him. Over the summer, we had barely spoken to each other—or, more accurately, he had barely spoken to me. And the previous spring I had received several urgent phone calls—invariably on the day of an important meeting—that required me to take the first train from Washington, D.C., where I worked, back to Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived
The author tells her own perspective about her son having problems at school while she was working far away. This example proves her point that work and family don't mix well because she couldn't be there when her child needed help
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed
The author claims that most women cannot successfully balance being mothers and having powerful careers. This "claim" i believe is the foundation of her entire argument that the idea of "having it all" is unrealistic for most women
Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.
This is actually good news because it shows that avoiding plagiarism isn't that complicated - I just need to cite my sources properly. It takes the pressure off because I know if I give credit where it's due, I'll be fine
All of the following are considered plagiarism: turning in someone else's work as your own copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit failing to put a quotation in quotation marks giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
I had no idea there were so many different ways to accidentally plagiarize, like copying sentence structure or using too much from one source even with citations. This list helps me be more careful about how I use sources in my assignments instead of just worrying about obvious copying
Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense: According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to "plagiarize" means: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
This passage opened my eyes because I used to think plagiarism was just "stealing copying and pasting" or using article as an idea, which sounds pretty harmless. Now I realize it's actually stealing and lying
More broadly, across each of the countries surveyed, people who see social division between people who support different political parties, are, in general, more likely to see social media leading people to be more divided in their political opinions. In a number of countries, younger people are somewhat more likely to see social media enlarging political differences than older people. More educated people, too, often see social media exacerbating political divisions more than those with less education.
This demonstrates how platform algorithms and engagement metrics amplify the voices of heavy users while silencing those who use social media less or not at all. The most active users get the most visibility and influence policy discussions, creating an echo chamber that excludes perspectives from people who choose not to engage heavily with these platforms.
In seven of the surveyed countries, people with higher levels of education are more likely than those with lower levels to see social media informing the public on current events in their own country.
This reveals how educational privilege affects who can critically analyze and speak about misinformation, potentially marginalizing voices from less educated communities. Those with higher education may dominate discussions about media literacy and misinformation, while those most vulnerable to manipulation have less platform to share their experiences.
Younger adults tend to see social media making people more informed than older adults do. Older adults, for their part, don’t necessarily see the internet and social media making people less informed about what’s happening in their country; rather, they’re somewhat more likely to describe these platforms as having little effect on people’s information levels.
This shows how age creates different levels of digital literacy and platform engagement, affecting whose perspectives dominate online conversations. Younger users who are more active on social media may have more influence in shaping what information spreads, while older adults' voices may be less prominent despite their life experience.
Our freedoms in democratic societies are not automatic. They come from centuries of struggle against tyranny and autocracy and those who foment sectarianism, hatred, and fear. Those struggles are far from over. As John Dewey observed, “Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
This paragraph stood out to me because they show education isn't just about getting job, it's about developing the whole person, respecting individual differences, and keeping democracy alive. It also captures how education continues to change every generation, without change theres no new development
Education is therefore deeply personal. It is about cultivating the minds and hearts of living people. Engaging them as individuals is at the heart of raising achievement.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and that “Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
This paragraph emphasizes that effective education must recognized and nurtured by individuals uniqueness while developing the whole person into becoming the greatest version of themself. I believe without education our brain would go to mush, without freedom and human rights all cultivation of greatness would seize.
So, what does it mean to be educated now? Well, I believe that education should expand our consciousness, capabilities, sensitivities, and cultural understanding. It should enlarge our worldview. As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. In today’s climate, there is also a new and urgent challenge: to provide forms of education that engage young people with the global-economic issues of environmental well-being.
This passage beautifully captures education as fundamentally about expanding human understanding in both internal and external dimensions. I like how it captivated my attention and truly questioned what it means to be educated now in our day and time