The great German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said once that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Another German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, quoting a line of poem by Hölderlin, “where word breaks off, no thing may be,” also dealt with the same phenomenon. In other words, there is nothing beyond the point [...]
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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. So writing precedes reading. But it has been said many times and by many people that reading is the other side of the coin of writing, and vice versa. They go [...]
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 that they don’t know what pornography is but they do recognize it when they see it. Education should be less obscure, but it’s still worth to take a good look at [...]
What Can You Study Online For Free?
Quite a few things on the Internet have been free since the dawn of the so-called Age of Information. And things are available that go beyond simple information. And can also lead to knowledge and even wisdom. You know that if you are interested in learning something, all you have to do is type a [...]
Why Minor in a Subject?
You are undoubtedly familiar with such expressions as “plan B” or “something to fall back on.” Is that the idea behind a minor? Yes and no. A minor is more than likely to be in a subject or field that’s related to your major. A person majoring in English, for example, might choose either philosophy [...]
Gaining Expertise in Your Chosen Field: Your Major
It has been said by a wit somewhere that an expert is a person who knows more and more about less and less until he or she achieves the ultimate. At that point he or she knows everything about nothing. All joking aside, when you decide in majoring in a certain subject or field, you [...]
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 [...]
Tips for Planning Your College Education
T.S. Eliot, the American-born British poet, once said that “there is no method except to be very intelligent.” Perhaps he was thinking of the time-honored idea according to which “there are no rules.” Or “rules were meant to be broken.” You could go on and think of other sayings related to the idea, like there [...]
The Distance Learning Phenomenon
Since the advent of the World Wide Web as we know it today there has been a lot of development online. Businesses have moved to the Internet – in addition to their brick-and-mortar locations. And new ones have sprung up that exist only online. There probably isn’t a school, a college or university, that doesn’t [...]
Types of Online Education Degrees
[This article explains the various possibilities for getting an online education for a career in teaching. It compares the various advantages and disadvantages of online vs. brick-and-mortar schools. It also gives you links to several websites for further reading] The Internet Is Your Key to an Online Education The advent of the Internet has brought [...]