Posts Tagged ‘ Degrees ’

Education vs. Indoctrination

March 18, 2010

Do you want to be liberated from the prejudices of your time and place, or do you want to be enslaved by them? You probably say that you want to be liberated rather than enslaved, and that’s the right attitude. But let’s take a deeper view of this matter, for ultimately we are dealing here [...]

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When Money is Tight, Distance Learning …

March 18, 2010

Horror stories are rampant these days. The economy has hit college students in two ways: many of their parents may have been laid off or lost their jobs to downsizing, and brick-and-mortar schools are raising their tuition so much that students are beginning to protest in large numbers. If you are a working adult interested [...]

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Doing Research Online or Offline

March 18, 2010

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 were lucky enough to be near a decent library, that’s where you went. And you looked in the catalogues and then went among the shelves and found the books you needed. [...]

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Degrees in Art: Offline or Online

March 18, 2010

If art is your primary interest, there are many ways in which you can pursue a line of studies both offline and online. In either case, a lot of different areas come under this rubric. Art History might be a major separate from a major in Art. And, of course, minors can also be had [...]

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Education and the Internet

March 14, 2010

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 [...]

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