This article is first in a famous students series that will be posted in this blog.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is known as one of great wartime leaders in history. He was most loved and most criticized man in United Kingdom at the same time. His multifaceted genius, lead him to conquer immortality in the world of politics. He was also a remarkable historian, biographer, lecturer, war correspondent and. Of course well known cognac drinker
Churchill was born in Oxfordshire in 1874 and died in 1965 in London.
As a child he was rebel and independent. He attended two different schools : St George’s School in Ascot, Berkshire and Brunswick School in Hove before get access to Harrow Military School for boys in 1888 where his actual career began.
After he left Harrow he applied to Royal Military College located in Sandhurst. He needed three attempts to attend to one of the best army schools in the world.
Before becoming British Prime Minister in 1940 he was officer in the army, historian, writer and artist. During those years he traveled to Cuba, Sudan, India , South Africa and even he was fighting at western front during First World War.
Churchill was Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1953 specially for his six volume work ser avbout the Second World War.
Also he was first person to be recognized as “Honorary Citizen of the United States”
After his death he was honored with a state funeral at Saint Paul’s Cathedral and finally he was buried in the family plot in Bladon, near Woodstock.

As you know military schools are not anything but a boarding school with some army traditional training programs and that some of them are really old. Here we have the oldest military schools in the United States of America. We have considered as date of foundation the year that schools have traditionally listed as the official year of their founding.

1. Carson Long Military Institute. Founded in 1842. It is located in Pennsylvania, it is a boys only school and they offer scholarships to best students.
2. Oak Ridge Military Academy. This military school located in North Carolina was founded ten years later, in 1852. In this institution there is a teacher per every seven students, 20 % of them come from outside the States.
3. Fishburne Military School, the oldest of Virgina military schools was established in 1879, offers classes from 7 to 12 grade for only 200 students.
4. Wentworth Military Academy & College, founded in 1880, is the only coed military academy in the Midwest. 200 military girls and boys study there every year grades 9-12 with a teacher-student ratio of 1:10
5. The Howe School and Summer Camp. This military school located in Howe, Indiana was founded in 1884. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church for grades 5-12. Nestled on a 100 acre park-like setting, Howe is located in northeast Indiana’s beautiful lake country.

Any student attending to these institutions feels proud of continuing a long tradition that was settled more that hundred years ago.

Films, books or TV usually show military schools in a different way that they really are so many people has a predefine image when they think about these schools. We’ll try to bust some myths about military schools.
1. Military schools are only for troubled kids. On TV we always watch as the father of a problematic kid threaten him about sending him to a military school but, actually these schools do not accept children with any major behaviour problems. Although kids with mild problems can benefit with programs that are held in these instituions, military schools prefer good, dedicated students.
2. Military Schools are only for boys. Many people thinks that girls can attend to these schools because their programs are physically too tough for them. In facts, there are military schools for girls in which boys are not allowed.
3. Kids only learn military stuff. Altough most of them offer physical activities programs based in military tradition, military schools offer a wide varied challenging courses from science to humanities studies.
4. Military schools are the same that army schools. That is a very common mistake, army schools are that ones held by the army and are dedicated to train soldiers and officers that will have a career within the army and a military school is nothing but a school with some traditions and programs based in army procedures,
5. Military schools are only for rich children. In fact these institutions are a low-cost alternative to expensive preparation schools and many grants can be requested. They can offer the chance to higher level education for many kids they wouldn’t have in other way.
I hope I help you to change your mind about that aspects related to military schools that could have been misunderstood

If you are thinking about sending your kid to an army school maybe you are balancing pros and cons about what this decision on to your child’s future. Here you have 5 things that military schools would help that you kid will become in a sensible adult.

1. Discipline. Most over with rebel kids o those whom their parents can control anymore, orderliness will help the kid’s attitude change and think over how they behave before.
2. Fellowship. Everyday life shared with other kids ans help each other to get through problems helps forge bonds of fellowship between students.
3. Order. Time, activities, and discipline force the kid to keep everyday life organized and this will continue during his/her life
4. Physical Activity: Military Schools in Texas or anywhere else held a high level physical and sport program and kids learn how good this is for them. Sedentary attitudes are not in their minds anymore and helps to avoid illnesses as diabetes or hearth problems.
5. Education: From elementary military schools to high school education even tough college level degrees high quality education programs are taught at these institutions.

In summary, army and military schools gives to your kids the chance to receive a high level training not only at education but at personal and physical level that will be really useful in adult life.

On Monday organisers of the conference of the West Point Military Academy invited some of the top war historians from the United States to talk about and discuss war endings in front of an audience of around 20 military students and officers from the academy’s history department. Everything was filmed and there will be some essays written so teachers can use this debate in their classrooms as study material.

Because of these kinds of lectures and discussions, students learn things like the fact that the American military goes unprepared to war but that this is not the real problem. The real problem is that they are deep in war for 7 to 8 years right now and ending the war is starting to become a big issue. But than again the question arises how to stop the war. You can stop your involvement in a war, but can you do this when you started it?

They discussed different wars, from the American Revolution to the first Gulf War. And even though the Iraq and Afghanistan wars weren’t planned, they were never far away from everyone’s minds.

It was an interesting session and students learned a lot. The historians know what they are talking about and it was a good place to discuss a difficult subject.

This year the United States Army will be performing their duty for 235 years. This is why hundreds of people gathered last weekend at The Holiday Resort in Tumon for the annual Army Ball. During this ball there was a slide show organized to honor the fallen soldiers from Guam. The goal of this event was to reunite the soldiers so they can build up a solid relationship with each other furthermore Guam soldiers got recognition and soldiers could talk about their fallen battle buddies.

So the main goal wasn’t celebrating the 235th anniversary of the army but showing respect to the soldiers, let them know that their efforts are appreciated and that we all think about their fallen friends.

As we all know, military academies offer many different educational options to youngsters. But today I want to talk about a school which offers a very specific type of education in Spain. I am talking about the Military School of Languages.

The Military School of Languages in Spain is especially designed as an educational centre to perfection the language of those staff members of the foreign soldier and the Spanish Armed Forces which includes the Spanish Army, the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Air force who are assigned to take a specific course.

The objectives of the school are to teach languages and improve the language knowledge in the Arm Forces, as well as teaching Spanish and testing the Spanish level of the foreign staff. Furthermore the school believes it’s important to maintain relations with other centres by promoting and monitoring languages being learning with the foreign staff.

There is a great variety of courses taught in the army school. They offer short, medium and long courses concerning the English, French, German, Russian, Italian and Portuguese languages. A total of 4.730 pupils took an exam in one of these courses in 2008.

If you want more information about this school, you can surf to the website of the Ministerio de Defensa de España.

Today I want to talk about the different Facebook pages concerning Military Schools. Of course there are a quite some pages about the different military academies you can find in the United States, but I find some of them a bit more interesting than others.

First of all there is the Facebook page called United States Military Academy. This is actually a page for everyone who likes Military schools. With it’s large amount of friends, different videos and interactive subjects, this fan page could be interesting for you to join and interact with other people.

Furthermore the Facebook page of the West Point Military Academy is interesting as well. With almost 10.000 fans, many updates, nice pictures and interesting information, the West Point – The U.S. Military Academy fan page could be a good page for you to follow.

There are more and more parents looking for military schools for girls, but there is still a big difference when you compare it with boys. To some parents, it’s too much to handle their daughter going to a military school.

But this way of thinking is really against modern times. Young and independent woman choose to go to the Military Academy because they want to go to the military one day and end up having quality careers. These military schools are producing outstanding students by offering the highest available academic standards and give the girls an excellent opportunity to be accepted in the army.
They will learn the value of discipline, respect and it’s a good preparation for the real world.

That is why the Military Academy is also good for teenagers that have behaviour problems: the structure and discipline help the students to rediscover themselves and get them back on the right track.

Of course it’s never easy to send your child away, sometimes against their will. Furthermore, you don’t know if it’s the best decision or not. Maybe the answer comes years later, if it ever comes. Only you can make the choice and pray it is for the best.

Right now the recession is imposing on choices of parents about the future of their children, which is not always the best.

Lost in a bare-hands battle against the financial crisis, parents now have to fight for the costly education of their children. How can you pay for a good education when this spending is beyond your last resources?

New York Military School is about to close this spring because of the economy crisis that is hitting the parents. A debt of several millions has blocked the administration of the school.

The military school has been preparing students to high standards with the famous ideal phrase: “Educating tomorrow’s leaders today”. Over the years, this school had some of the most successful people who we know today as Donald Trump and Francis Ford Coppola. 121 years will pass in vain when its doors will close.

We can see the impact of the economic situation in the country, affecting not only the workers in losing their jobs, but even the educational institutions. A historic, pride of a nation’s army school is about to fall in that same battle we all face. How can a solid institution that seemed like a rock, can fall like a sand castle? We would hope that the pride of the graduated students who became leaders, would come to the rescue of this military school…

So facing tough economic decisions, parents have one more worry… As well as the trends of the stoke market, the standards of schools and universities are going down. Choices for good education are becoming less important….