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 …
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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 art of persuasion and argumentation in journalism, say, or business is the study of the art of speaking and writing – in short, rhetoric. This field goes way back to [...]
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 are a resident on earth, you are more than likely fairly well-informed at least of the various debates pro and con about this issue. And if you are more than interested [...]
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 implied that the three represent a hierarchy with information being on the bottom and wisdom on the top. Let’s look at the reasoning behind this. When you are learning something, you [...]
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 is simply no getting away from this basic fact. And good communication skills involve speaking as well as writing. Making presentations means making speeches; and rumor has it that people in [...]
Education and the Internet
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 [...]