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General Attitudes Of Middle School Students Towards Physical Education, David C. Barney, Robert Christenson Jan 2012

General Attitudes Of Middle School Students Towards Physical Education, David C. Barney, Robert Christenson

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Attitudes are formed by beliefs and experiences a person has had in their life (Silverman & Subramanian, 1999). This principle applies to middle school students' attitudes in physical education. The purpose of this study was to determine middle school students' attitudes towards physical education. For this study 227 middle school students in the Midwest of the United States were surveyed, then 28 students were interviewed regarding the attitudes towards physical education. It was found that middle school students tend to have positive attitudes towards physical education more specifically, the student felt that physical education is important their education and that …


Albert Einstein In Switzerland: The Education Of The Most Famous Swiss American, Kurt Winkler Jan 2012

Albert Einstein In Switzerland: The Education Of The Most Famous Swiss American, Kurt Winkler

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The most famous Swiss American, by far, was Albert Einstein. It is well known that Einstein worked in Germany starting in 1914, but he was forced to leave in 1933 as someone the Nazis had "not yet hanged," and he came to the United States where he taught at Princeton University for many years. However, Einstein had earlier lived in Switzerland for many years. Even though he became an American citizen in 1940, the great physicist retained ties to Switzerland, and he kept his Swiss passport all his life. Einstein spent his most productive years in Switzerland where he matured, …