A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?

First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]

Best Teacher of the Century Award: Your Mom and Dad

First, remember back to when you were but a wee one, maybe four or five years old. Or better yet, take a look at your four or five year old. What do you see? A copy machine, right? As you drive in the car, walk through the park, go on excursions and adventures here and [...]

Sorry Folks, Education is Not Institutional But Rather Individual

Certainly, for a child or youth, what to learn and how it is be taught should be left up to the adult, the child being too inexperienced and young to know better.
But if a child is to learn, spending at least the required twelve years in school in America, why this “education”?
For one, there are [...]

What Your Child’s Teacher Won’t Tell You

Concerned about your child’s education? Why not get some solutions from the horse’s mouth?
Teachers . . .
If you listen without judgment and with your child’s best interest in mind, they can tell you a lot. And remember, they are not the enemy. What? You think they went into teaching for the power, fame, glory, and [...]

How to Succeed: Ignore the Majority and Do the Unexpected

If someone is successful, she is often asked “How’d you do it? Did you take classes? Get a certificate? Degree?” And when you tell them “No, I self-appointed myself” or did it on your own, most can’t believe you were able to do so without getting certificated or validated by some “official” or “expert.”
The questioning [...]

College Tips to Help Save Time, Money, Aggravation, and Your Sanity: Career

Let’s begin with what you’re all shooting for in the first place (I hope): Career satisfaction and success
In college, generally one thing is acquired: knowledge. Very rarely will you learn the critical skills and attitudes needed for success in your career or, for that matter, life (family, social, political, etc.) However, for now let’s just [...]

You May Not Care About Your Success But the Rest of the World Does

Some say that distraction is the tool of the devil or that which gets us off track from doing great things in our lives not only for ourselves but for others. Now some may not believe in the devil and some may believe that they are happy and don’t need change. Not believing in the [...]

An Objective Analysis of the Arbitrary Nature of Opinions and Mores is Essential to Your Success

What are perceived as “standards” or “the way things are done” is oftentimes set arbitrarily based only on that which benefits the individual or group who sets them. And equally as often, they are set to perpetuate the individual’s / group’s weaknesses and fears.