Why is the Majority of Your College Education a Waste of Time
Education today, to a great degree, is wasting time, money, and effort-the time and effort of the student and, to a great degree, the parents’ money.
Let’s begin by dispelling the myth that teachers (for now let’s talk primary and secondary) are all that and a bag of chips. Teachers are not only given too much [...]
Dear Mayor Villaraigosa, Our Schools Are In a Mess and I’d Like to Help
High school graduation rates in certain states, like California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and ten others hovers around 50%. That’s close to a third of the U.S. At the top are states that graduate 80%, but most of those states don’t even have 1 million residents, such as North and South Dakota, and Montana, and [...]
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 [...]
Life: Find Your Path and Stick to It
First, as I’ve stated before, you need to spend the time reflecting on your strengths: innate talents, abilities, gifts, and desires. After a long period of reflecting, writing and trial and error, you will find what you came here to this life to do. We all have it in us, but for numerous reasons, have [...]
What Is Your College Student’s Focus?: MySpace, Email, Texting, and Computer Games
Back in the day when I was a big-college-professor on campus, as I walked through the basement computer lab of a particular college library week after week, semester after semester, year after year, on the way to teach, I noticed one thing, that most students were not working but playing.
For some time I had been [...]
