Get a Higher Education for Free

Can You Get a Higher Education for Free?

When most people are in search of continuing education they automatically think "Higher Education" means going to some sort of vocational school, college, or university, and maybe taking advantage of some distance education programs like the online degree programs that a lot of the universities and colleges are offering. However going to a college, university, or even a vocational school has become quite expensive, as a majority of colleges, universities, and vocational schools around the world have been raising their tuition fee. If you're lucky you may get a job in the field you studied in to help pay the incurring educational debt, but not even the colleges, vocational schools, and universities that offer job placement can actually guarantee that you get a a job in the field of your studies. What's even worse, is that I have heard time and again how so many people who graduated in the top of their class walked away not remembering any of the knowledge they were supposed to have gained from the vocational, university, or college courses, and they have had to go back through their text books to re-learn it all. If it wasn't for the fact that so many jobs are asking for a BA in this or a MA in that, many of the vocational schools, colleges, universities would be out of business. However, for the simple fact that most people don't see any way around the requirement of haveing a BA in this or a MA in that, many people end up going into huge debt just trying to get a better job by continuing education through a college, university, or vocational school. Through Self-Guided education, the actual task of continuing education doesn't have to put you in debt, and the knowledge you gain will be sure to stick with you.

Life is Your Text Book

Each day we live we have the option of continuing education for free we just have to take life up on the opportunity. I say this because every day we are alive we learn something new, though most of the time it is something that has no importance, something like Britney Spears doesn’t wear panties. Seriously, how important is it to know if Britney Spears wears panties or not, when in our daily lives we are enslaved by our jobs and our corporate owned government? Though our jobs are not forcing us to slave for them, that is our own choice, the corporate owned government on the other hand is a whole different hub all on it's own. We have the choice of the information we receive each day, whether it is entertaining, educational, or vital to our existence, and we must realize that what we chose to inform ourselves with will strengthen the one area of knowledge and weaken the others unless we make sure to balance out the information we search for. The existence of life relies on many different venues to exist, neglecting to search for knowledge and information in the different venues can eventually bring life as you know it to a halt. Therefore I present you with a challenge, as you are searching for new knowledge to better your career, better your life as well by taking in all the lessons that life has to offer.

We are naturally curious beings and we have these amazing brains, but yet we only use 10% of our brain. Why is that? Well let’s start out with our education, in particular, the public education system.

Stroll Down Memory Lane Back to School

You all remember going to school as a kid, so let me ask you this…Do you remember being excited and really thinking, asking questions and then discovering the answers about what you were learning when you went to school? There was one teacher throughout my education that made learning exciting for me; she was my second grade teacher. This is what public education offers: a very low possibility of having a good teacher that will provoke your interest in what you are learning, and a high possibility of a boring lecture of this is what happened or how this works, and no exploration into the subject. So basically we are taught what to think, not how to think because we don't have enough teachers that explore the information with us that they are teaching. It’s like the saying “You give a man a fish and you feed him for a day…You teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. We are not taught how to think and learn critically unless we are lucky enough to have had at least one good teacher during the beginning of our education; we are simply fed bits of data and told to process it like a computer. Every student taught in the public school system is just an organic computer trained for labor, “No child left behind.”

Imagine the possibilities and the intelligence that we would have if every teacher we had, explored with us everything they ever taught, instead of just giving us facts to memorize.

Suggested Reading

Because public schools are government funded, I would like to ask how many of you who are reading this, actually know what is written in the constitution and the bill of rights and what it all means? We all know that the constitution and bill of rights give us our freedoms in the U.S. because that’s what we were taught, but did your teacher ever explore every amendment and article that makes up those documents when they were teaching you about it? Most likely not because that is usually something you explore in depth in law school. These documents give U.S. citizens’ their freedoms, but yet most U.S. citizens don’t learn much more then what they were taught in grade school about them unless they go to law school. Don’t you think it would be important to learn everything you could about the documents that give you your freedom? For those of you who don’t completely understand everything written in these documents, I encourage you to please go and learn everything you can about the constitution and bill of rights starting by clicking here and researching what you don't understand about those documents, because without the citizens to back those documents, our congressmen and senators view them as just pieces of parchment.

Intriguing Thoughts on Higher Learning

Since we do learn something new every day wouldn’t it be safe to say that gaining intelligence is one of the many reasons why we live, and if so why are we not taking the opportunity to educate ourselves with important things that will help us continue our existence and help us defend ourselves? Instead we rely on a government that with every ounce of security they provide is another freedom lost because people don’t understand that when they rely on someone to protect them they give that person the right to control them. Our priorities in what we are learning every day needs to change or we will see ourselves regressing instead of progressing. Education is free when you go searching for it, and what I mean by that is ask questions, search for the answers, and always look for supporting evidence in what you are researching before you come to your final conclusion. Albert Einstein was not a college graduate, his curiosity is what made him a genius, and it is curiosity that made Thomas Edison a great inventor as he did not receive much formal education as well. So don't let that old myth of how curiosity killed the cat stop you, and you will see your prosperity and your knowledge grow.

Copyright © 9/4/2010 by A.K. Love (dragnhaze)

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