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.
Why I’m Teaching My Kids to Code
I really don't want any of my children to be coders for a living. But I'm teaching them to 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, from the time...
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...
Why We Choose to Homeschool Our Kids
My wife and I currently homeschool three of our four school-aged kids. We plan to ultimately homeschool all of our children for at least some portion of their early education, possibly through high school.We often have had to defend our decision to...
MyEdDebt.gov Debt Resolution Portal for Defaulted Student Loans and Grants
Student loan debt is having a crushing effect on current students and graduates, whose college dreams often have turned into nightmares as they realize that the job and career for which their specific degree has prepared them is likely not worth the cost...
Alternatives to Going to College
Nearly two decades ago I visited my wife’s family in Texas to propose to her. The vetting process for her family involved finding out about my plans for college and career. I remember staying up until four o’clock in the morning debating with her grandpa...
Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Mothers
My husband asked me to write a companion post to his Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Fathers article. My first reaction was to feel a little inadequate. After all, at the ripe old age of 34, I really do not consider myself an expert at anything....
Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Fathers
Let me start out this simple guide by giving some of my background. That seems like a good starting point. I’m going to share with you some of the things I’ve learned over the past 15-plus years of being married. I’ll also go beyond that time in history...
How to Set Goals and Achieve Them
Setting goals is something that everyone has heard of, but very few people implement. Goal setting takes discipline to put into action and more so to stay consistent with it. If you understand the 5 SMART goal methodology and how to write SMART goals, naturally,...
Converting Adobe Illustrator to VideoScribe Whiteboard Animation Tutorial
One of the founders and content contributors for Prosperopedia, my buddy and business partner Ben Accinelli, happens to be an expert in photography, filming, and video editing. I asked Ben to brain dump some of the stuff he knows about video editing. In...
Photoshop Tutorial: Separating Colors for Screen Printing
This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to separate colors for screen printing, including adding registration marks to line up the layers of colors.
How To Become Rich – The Richest Man in Babylon Formula
The Richest Man In Babylon is a fictional story with sound principles that have helped people become wealthy through their application. This first part comes from the part of the book “Seven Curses For A Lean Purse”. Heed the advice in each of these...
EveryDollar – The Free Budgeting App from Dave Ramsey
EveryDollar is a budgeting application that is used by millions of people and families to keep track of how they spend their money and to do other budgeting activities. The EveryDollar app is a comprehensive monthly budgeting tool, allowing users to enter...
Montessori Sensorial Exercises Develop Children’s Abilities to Observe and Learn
Montessori education, using sensorial activities for children, greatly increases their confidence, independence, and their chances of becoming one of the next great inventors.
Why Finland’s Education System Leads the World
Finland has been recognized recently as having the most effective school system in the world. Here are some of the reasons the Finnish way of teaching appears to have an advantage on other methods.
