The 10 things they really don't tell you at graduation

3) When you hit a certain point in your 20s, everyone around you starts to get married, for no apparent reason and without any warning. This is first cute, then alarming, like Justin Bieber.

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H.S. Valedictorian Slams Public Education

Full text of the beginning of the speech:
There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, "If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, "Ten years." 
The student then said, "But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast - How long then?" Replied the Master, "Well, twenty years." "But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?" asked the student. "Thirty years," replied the Master. "But, I do not understand," said the disappointed student. "At each time that I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?" 
Replied the Master, "When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path."

Crossing the student debt point of no return

For-profit colleges have default rates now rivaling subprime mortgage debt. $1 trillion in student loan debt on the horizon while college graduate wages fall for the decade.

5 Things Our Kids Won't Have In School

If you went to a school classroom 200 years ago, you'd see something remarkably similar to what we have today: A teacher talking to rows of kids sitting at little desks, each pretending to follow along in a textbook. Maybe the blackboard has been replaced with a whiteboard or a PowerPoint, but those basics haven't changed in generations.

But they're about to. Some of the most iconic staples of school life are about to disappear forever. Things like...

Did you know?

It is claimed that Sony Corporation played this 5 minute video at their executive conference this year.

1984 On Training Wheels

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

The third installment of the Zeitgeist series; A study of human nature, and an indictment of money itself and promotion of a new, global, sustainable "resource-based economy".

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The New Orleans School Voucher Program