If you are reading this, you are using a computer and are on the Web. In other words, you are learning something – in this case about education – on the Internet. There is a lot going on that’s educational but not connected to any kind of formal education on the Net world-wide.
People are using search engines to try to find answers to all kinds of questions. Some are silly, but some are serious. And there is quite an impressive array of things to be found online.
Are you looking for a poem by Wallace Stevens? Is the poem called “Sunday Morning”? All you have to do is Google the title of the poem and you are likely to find a Web page that displays it. Are you looking for Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle? All you have to do is Google the words and you are likely to find a lot of literature on it. There is practically nothing that’s not on the Internet by now.
And the Internet – short for “international network” – is truly international in its scope. You can type in the name of a Hungarian writer (should you be erudite enough to look for something like that), and you are going to find lots of information on him or her.
A lot of what’s online is in English, but all countries in the world have sites in their own languages as well. So, when it comes to trying to learn something on the Internet, the sky is the limit.
If you are looking for a course of study, in whatever field, you are going to find the right online school for you. If you are a working adult who wants to further his or her career by taking extra courses, you can do that as well.
If you are a young, college-age person living at home and are looking for an online school to attend full-time for budgetary reasons, you are going to find what you are looking for.
There is a sense in which the words “education” and “Internet” might as well be exchangeable. Whatever there is to learn is probably on the Internet somewhere. And formal schooling has taken advantage of this new, borderless phenomenon.
It’s amazing how quickly high-tech has been changing the way we do things in our lives, for all intents and purposes.
The wonderful thing is that you can explore quite literally the whole world without leaving your home. All you need is a computer and an ISP – “Internet Service Provider.” And the cost these days is miniscule, especially when you compare all you get for a modest monthly fee.
You can e-mail practically anyone in the whole wide world, provided that they can access the Internet as well. And you can find information on practically any subject that ever existed on the face of the earth by using your favorite search engine. And you can enroll in an online school and get a real degree, too, from any accredited school you care to attend.
So count your blessings, and learn a thing or two.