Category | Education Overall

Over the past decade, many schools have seen a great increase in online education, whether an actual physical university is providing more and more online classes, or entire universities are online, offering degrees without ever even having met their students. While for some situations, online classes and degrees are extremely beneficial, but automatically integrating them into a physical university for students can lead to some conflicts in interest. Online classes and degrees are great for people who are working, have a family, travel frequently, or have other life circumstances that prevent...

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Education these days seems to be lacking. What am I saying? Seems? No, it IS lacking. Kids today can't seem to count without fingers or do math without calculators. For those of us over the age of 35, you remember when the teacher would berate us for using our fingers to count? And forget using a mechanical calculator. He used to tell me the only calculator we'd ever be allowed to use in his class was our brains. This was the 5th grade. I'll never forget that teacher, his name was Mr. Macarri, I hope I got the spelling right. And spelling is another matter. With how many people see what you've...

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