Bad Old Education
Posted by Peter James | Posted in Balanced Life, Learning Off Experience | Posted on 07-05-2008
Tagged Under : Balanced Life, Business Success Tips, education, entrepreneur, Help, inner peace, school, truth
In the last 20 years of our lives, how much has the world changed? We have seen changes in technology unlike any other time period in history. Information is now at the touch of your fingers. We can literally answer almost any question we have simply by visiting Google. It is amazing how different the world is becoming due to this rapid progression.
On the flip side of things, our education system has not changed since the turn of the 20th century. That’s over 100 years. Now sure, they have added subjects, and integrated computers into the learning. But let’s be honest with ourselves. A school education is not what it used to be. It used to be, or so I am told, that obtaining a college degree would give you an advantage. That success in school had a direct correlation on your success in life. You may have not used everything you learned in school, but you sure used most of it. Nowadays, I’m not so sure.
