Education is free, but the “signal” will cost you, sometimes dearly. What if there is a job you want, but it requires a degree? Accounting, law enforcement, nursing to name a few, require that signal. You don’t have 4-6 years and thousands of dollars, but you are smart and know there is another way – actually a few. The first 2 years (or more) of college are a re-do of high school. CLEP is a way to test out of…
Change your math phobic, number hating “I am just not a math person“ self into a creative problem solving machine. It’s not you, its the dysfunctional math inheritance passed down to you. If you are taking Algebra in 9th grade, you have had: If you missed school or moved schools you may have gotten lost and never caught up So here is another question: I am not dissing teachers, they are just doing things the way they were taught. The…
Adapted from a talk by John Taylor Gatto, New York Teacher of the Year. 2 Caveats: 1) Please do not misunderstand, I am not knocking elite boarding schools or those that go there. 2) I am also not knocking teachers, as many of them are doing the best they can with the system they are bound by. The crazy thing is: None of this costs a dime. Anyone at any age can take their cue from this list and have…
I get it, your teacher assigns another book to read. Some of you are excited to dig in, but I am not talking to “Those People.” I am talking to these people: You know who you are. I feel like somewhere along the way reading became a chore and not a joy. Maybe it was the endless book reports assigned to you and then as you got older, literature analysis(LA), which is a nice way of saying “pick it apart…
This is where I give you the one thing you could do right now to set new habits in motion…..rubber meets the road style. Procrastination: it’s what’s for dinner. If you just got that one task done you would feel much better. Well here’s your chance. It’s Scientific, it’s proven brain science. It’s called “The pomodoro technique”. For all you Italians, yes, that means tomato. How is a tomato going to help me with procrastination and this nasty task I have been…