Education
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
– Aristotle
The Role of Education in Achieving Prosperity
Education is one of the most critical elements of happiness, success, and prosperity. It is human nature to want to know more about our surroundings, how to improve our situation, what makes things work.
In this 21st century, education is more accessible than it has been at any point in the world’s history. Not only are there are more schools with the potential to reach more people throughout the United States an internationally, the digital revolution has made it possible to learn almost any topic anywhere there is a connection to the internet.
This section of Prosperopedia.com evaluates the best ways to educate children and adults. We evaluate education techniques, discuss trends in education, describe how to make the best use of online education resources, and even take on some of the controversial topics like homeschooling versus public and private schools and determining whether or not college is for you.
We hope that you’ll use the stories, videos, and other information you find here to better educate yourself and that you’ll use that education to prosper and help others to prosper.
Homeschooling: Applying Essentialism to Educating Children
Several years ago when my wife and I were preparing for our oldest child to go to school, we handpicked a nice K-12 private school that provided a great learning environment where moral and religious values aligned with ours were instilled right alongside a solid...
Self-Reliance Principles
Achieving self-reliance is a worthy goal for individuals, parents, and families. Being self-reliant brings a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that cannot be achieved in any other way. What is Self-Reliance? Self-reliance is the ability of a person to take care...
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
Article Summary The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program was established by the federal government to allow professionals to have their student loan debt forgiven. Participating in the PSLF program requires you to work for a qualified employer as specified...
How to Prevent Homosexuality and Gender Confusion in Children
The erosion of morality and traditional values - especially over the several decades since the sexual revolution of the 1960s - has created a culture in modern society that is confusing in too many ways. Random public shootings, depression, anxiety, suicide, a general...
An Online Lead Generation Strategy That Always Works
Prosperopedia.com, the encyclopedia of prosperity, is dedicated to helping our community become more knowledgeable about how to be prosperous. To that end, this article describes a strategy for efficiently growing a business built on product marketing and sales using...
Average Medical School Debt
The average debt load for a graduating medical student coming out of medical school is about $200,000. That number comes from a report submitted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to Congress in June, 2019. That report, entitled, The Doctor is Out....
What is a Nanodegree? Udacity’s Revolutionary Education Model
Prosperopedia.com's mission is to provide resources and guidance to our visitors that will help them make good educational and financial decisions. In keeping with that mission, this article about Udacity introduces their Nanodegree opportunities as a way to improve...
MCLE Requirements by State
This article takes a look at continuing legal education (abbreviated as CLE or often MCLE - M standing for mandatory or minimum, depending on who you ask or what state they're from) requirements on a state by state basis. All states allow legal professionals to use...
How To Create and Use a Gmail Account
Setting up a Gmail account is easy. It's also free. And Gmail accounts are highly useful for lots of different things, some of which I'll get into later in this article. If you don't have a gmail account yet, it's never too late to jump in and set one up. I'm going to...
How to Cancel Your Audible Account
Audible, the world's leading platform for distributing audiobooks and other spoken audio entertainment, is great for a lot of things. In my household, my wife and kids and I use Audible almost every day for entertainment or to educate ourselves on one topic or...
Scott Voelker TAS Inner Circle Mastermind Group Review
This article reviews my experience participating in Scott Voelker's TAS Inner Circle. I hope you find it beneficial as you make a decision about whether to participate in that group or to join another Amazon coaching program (or any coaching program for that matter)....
Why I’m Teaching My Kids to Code
I really don't want any of my children to be a coder for a living. But I'm teaching all of them to write code. Here's why. My Own Software Development Experience There was a time in my life when I thought I would spend my next thirty or so years employed in a career,...
Top Real Estate Investment Books Recommended by BiggerPockets
One of the resources I've begun using as I've waded into the waters of real estate investing is an organization called BiggerPockets, which was created to encourage real estate investment by building a community and disseminating educational and other...
Education Can (and Absolutely Should) Include Both Music and Sports
Recently at a music competition two of my kids were participating in, I was chatting with one of the organizers about my family's busy Saturday going between sports activities (including two basketball games and a baseball practice for two of my boys) and music...
How to Transfer A Wix Domain to Google Cloud Platform
Wix is a popular, relatively new platform for creating a website and publishing content on the internet. If you've spent any time on YouTube recently, chances are you've seen the Wix ads showing you how easy it is to build a website using the Wix hosted website...
Benefits of Music Education for Child Development
Several years ago I had a conversation with a relative of mine who was considering a new hobby for his young son after the boy decided that he didn't like wrestling. Having learned to play the piano in my early adult years, I volunteered to give the kid a few piano...
How to Migrate Your WordPress Website to the Google Cloud Hosting Platform
The past decade has seen a mad rush “to the cloud”, as performance requirements (speed and availability) for apps, websites, and other technology have increased. For me, it seems like I’ve been looking for a solid place to host my websites for as long as I’ve been...
Buying and Owning a UPS Store Franchise – My Experience
Several years ago, my wife and I owned an online sporting goods business. We shipped a lot of products, which meant we spent a lot of money on shipping. As any online retail knows, shipping costs continually are on the rise, and people don’t like to pay those costs,...
