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…