Do you want to be liberated from the prejudices of your time and place, or do you want to be enslaved by them? You...
When Money is Tight, Distance Learning …
Horror stories are rampant these days. The economy has hit college students in two ways: many of their parents may have been laid off...
Doing Research Online or Offline
Before the advent of personal computers and the Wide World Web you were pretty much limited to doing research the old-fashioned way. If you...
Degrees in Art: Offline or Online
If art is your primary interest, there are many ways in which you can pursue a line of studies both offline and online. In...
The Art of Speaking (and Writing)
One possible course of study for those of you whose ambition either entails the teaching of writing (as in English Composition) or that of...
The Earth Sciences Online
You would have to be incognito and incommunicado not to be aware of all the talk about global warming or climate change. Since you...
Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
The famous American-born British poet, T.S. Eliot, raised an interesting question in one of his poems about this trinity: information, knowledge, wisdom. He clearly...
Tradition vs. Progress and Innovation
As you know, conservatives want to preserve tradition; liberals want progress and innovation. Or so popular opinion would have it. There is nothing wrong...
What Does a Term Paper Measure?
One of the chores that students tend to dislike is the writing of a term paper. The very name, “term,” seems to have ominous...
If Business is What You Want to Study Online
Suppose you are interested in business. Can you study it online? Is it possible to get a degree in it online? The answer is...
The Importance of Good Communication
Whatever field you are thinking about as the foundation of your future career, good communication skills are going to be of paramount importance. There...
How to Build Your Vocabulary
The great German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said once that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Another German philosopher, Martin...
On Reading and Writing Well
Which comes first? Reading or writing? Well, reading can only come after writing in the sense that what you read has already been written....
What is Education Anyway?
Some people like to joke about the fact that they don’t know what art is but they do know what they like. Others say...