Change can involve excitement and looked at as a great opportunity or be scary and as the worst thing that can happen. Whether it is a good or bad experience is contingent on a person’s attitude. Regardless of how it is experienced, normalizing change is the pathway to a fulfilled […]
Education
Three Sex Education Lessons From The Teen Pep Stories
One of the oft-repeated comments by characters in my novel, The Sex Ed Chronicles is that, in the absence of sex education, children learn about sex from their friends. However, the novel was based in 1980, before New Jersey high schools started to involve students in peer counseling. On Valentines […]
Best Financial Education Online Resources
Financial literacy is the key to a brighter future. This is why it’s incredibly unfortunate that few Americans truly understand how to manage their finances. More than 50% of Americans do not have basic grasp of financial literacy; this simply means that people lack vital information that should help them […]
The Montessori Education System and the Desire to Learn
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire talks about what he calls the banking system of education. In the banking system the student is seen as an object in which the teacher must place information. The student has no responsibility for cognition of any sort; the student must simply memorize […]
10 Steps to Economic and Educational Success – Facing Reality Versus the Fairness Myth
Here’s what the country faces: The confusion of do gooding and fairness with achievement and success. What ails the US economy and its education system is the constant desire to rationalize the idea of equal outcome. By the nature of being human, you will always have a pecking order. Some […]
Coursera: Top Universities Free Online
Last week, online education startup Coursera added twelve new university partners and raised an additional $6 million, bringing their venture funding to over $22 million. Coursera is a free online education platform offering interactive college courses. The intention of the one-year-old company is to bring classes from top-tier universities to […]
The Importance of Continuing Education
While these 23 million individuals represent the very core of an emerging society that is more inclined to studying and learning, the remaining individuals are excluded from these learning experiences due to reasons of time, cost, or even personal issues. Over the last few years, the number of adults who […]
Growing Popularity Of Online Education
Online education is becoming a vital component of the higher education landscape. The students as well as the employers are increasingly finding the worth in the various lectures that are delivered through a digital medium. Some of the best and reputed colleges are responding to the growing trend of online […]
Forex Education – Think You Can Win at Forex? Answer the Enclosed Questions Correctly
As part of your forex education I am going to give you some points which will indicate whether you have what it takes to win so check the points carefully before you start to trade, as understanding them could save you a lot of money. First if you agree with […]
Why Education Is Important
Education refers to the systematic process of gaining knowledge and skills through study and instructions. The person providing the instruction is known as teachers. And, the person who receives knowledge is called a student. It is important because it is used to mitigate most of the challenges faced in life. […]