Education
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
The content we’ve published here in the education section of Prosperopedia.com deal with learning through formal education programs as well as lot of new, unconventional methods for increasing knowledge.
How to Choose the Best VPN (Virtual Private Network) for Your Home
A VPN protects your privacy while you’re using the internet. Let’s take a look at what VPNs do and which one to choose for your home.
Raising a Large Family
Having a large family is no small endeavor in today’s world. Here’s why large families are important and how to make one work.
Best and Most Popular WordPress Plugins
WordPress is the most popular technology used to build websites. It’s the framework for about 40% of the websites online today. If you’re thinking about building your website using WordPress, be sure to take a look at our article on How to Install and Set up WordPress. What makes WordPress such an attractive content management…
Mistakes That Cost Me Years of Debt
When I graduated from high school I was determined to be good with my money, to avoid unnecessary debt. I was NOT going to get a credit card and planned to work to get myself through college. Unfortunately I graduated from college 5 years later with about $45,000 of student loans and 6,000. It wasn’t…
Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University
If you listen to talk radio much, you’ve most likely heard of Dave Ramsey, the radio personality who talks about money, debt, budgeting, investments, and related topics Monday through Friday each week. His show is broadcast on over 500 radio stations throughout the country to an estimated audience of over 6 million people on a…
edX Courses Create Affordable Opportunities for College Credit
The cost of a college education has skyrocketed from the last generation to the current one. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1985, the average cost to finish school at a 4-year college, including tuition, fees, and room and board expenses, was $12,274 (adjusted for inflation; the actual average cost then was…
LDS Personal Finances Self-Reliance Budgeting Course
Taking control of your personal finances is one the most important things you can do to experience the blessings of prosperity that are available to those who are willing to obey the principles upon which those blessings are based. Under the influence and in the grasp of the materialistic society in which we now exist,…
7 Lies About Thomas Jefferson, a Bible-Believing Christian
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America have long been remembered as some of the most inspired people to inhabit this planet. Their commitment to freedom and the ideas they came together to shape into the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution has carried the principles of fundamental human rights and the…
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 secular education. So that we’d have better access to the…
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 of himself or herself in several different areas of life, including financially, spiritually, emotionally,…
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 by the US Department of Eduction. Qualified employers include government and non-profit organizations. Only Direct…
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 lack of honesty and integrity, and a host of other societal breakdowns…
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 a proven lead generation strategy. Article Summary This article describes the steps involved in creating an…
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. Rising Student Loan Debt and the Decline of the Small Medical…
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 earning potential through “nano”-sized learning models that are the future of technology education. Education is changing….
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 online courses to count for some portion of their CLE…
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 show you…
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 another. In spite of how much positive I have to say…
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). I recognize that business owners are all unique, and have varying…
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, from…
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 information about how to go about real estate investment. Probably the biggest hurdle (outside of having…
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 oriented items on our calendar, which involved a practice for an…
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, especially since Amazon has trained the…
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 homeschool over the past six years following our decision to take our…
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 this question: Is college necessary? His argument was unequivocally this:…
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 and share what I’ve learned about what…
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.
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 and track income and expenses on a monthly basis so that they can…
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.
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.