Paradigm

Paradigm means (1) an outstanding clear or typical example or archetype (2) an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms (3) a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly: a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind. Well honestly that definition confuses me, but I will do the best I can. This seems to mean there are ideas that are formed by experiments, theories, laws, and generalizations. In relation to schools, this is very important. People seem to think they know the way to prevent school violence by using experiments, theories, laws and generalizations. Everyone has their own opinion on how to fix these many problems. The truth is that you must have experiments, theories, laws and generalizations to make any kind of decision. If you think about it, how many good decisions have you made based on your own knowledge? Everyone can make the best decision if they actually have some experience in the topic. Also, it is so much easier to make a decision if you have experience because you have had a chance to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Also in regards to school they are trying to put more metal detectors in the schools, but there is no way to tell if this will actually help because it has never been done before, but decisions like this must happen in order to determine what will actually help.