| It's important to understand that the success of | | | | CPA's or certified public accountants, need to |
| an entrepreneur is not measured by how much | | | | keep up with the latest laws and be up to date |
| education he or she has or how many years of | | | | with many of the sometimes arcane accounting |
| experience are under his or her belt. An | | | | principles. Teachers and nursing are two other |
| entrepreneur's success is measured by | | | | fields that also require continuing education to |
| achievements, not words on a resume. | | | | remain active in the profession. |
| More and more people are finding they can earn | | | | To be fair let’s examine the flip side of the |
| their degree from an accredited online university | | | | coin. The same people who I treasure for their |
| which offers the same challenge and quality of a | | | | insightfulness and dedication to mothers and their |
| traditional classroom in an environment which | | | | families can sometimes be overwhelming with |
| allows them to fit education into a life that might | | | | their crusade. Exaggerations are made about |
| be too busy for a more conventional method of | | | | obstetricians and the quality of hospital births and |
| instruction. | | | | bashing sometimes becomes part of the circle of |
| Physical education was officially recognized in the | | | | sharing. |
| United States in the early 1800’s. Colleges and | | | | Perhaps small schools in rural areas could institute |
| Universities began to offer physical education | | | | block scheduling in their schools and share the |
| programs throughout the 1800’s. Finally, in | | | | best teachers in each subject, with the teachers |
| 1866 California was the first to mandate physical | | | | spending a semester at one school and then |
| education. Many states followed this mandate | | | | moving to another; this could not only make it |
| within the next 30 years. The importance of | | | | possible for schools to afford the best science |
| training the body as well as the mind became | | | | and math teachers, which are a rare commodity, |
| prevalent in the educational system. | | | | but to add extras like music, art, and drama, |
| Comparing these salaries to the number of days | | | | courses that often aren’t considered |
| spent teaching (national average of 185 days) | | | | necessary, but that provide a tremendous |
| indicates that a teacher’s daily rate ranges | | | | motivation for many students to stay in school. |
| from $151 to $226. When factoring the actual | | | | Advanced psychological researches have |
| time instructing students which varies from | | | | concluded that children learn at the fastest pace |
| elementary to high school, suggests that teachers | | | | when they are between 0-6 years of age. Based |
| are not under paid for their efforts. (NOTE: These | | | | on this notion, the early child educators design |
| figures do not include fringe benefits.) | | | | their program that helps boost up the child’s |
| On the contrary, a child must be assured that | | | | natural learning process. |
| parents are always there to help in case he or | | | | The first high definition video conferencing was |
| she encounters a problem that is too difficult to | | | | inadvertently tried out by NASA who required to |
| solve on one’s own. College experience | | | | conferencing with astronauts in space. The |
| provides that environment where young people | | | | distance required very high definition video |
| can face the realities of life and see if they can | | | | conferencing capabilities and NASA achieved this |
| deal with their personal problems themselves. I | | | | by using high frequencies to link up and down |
| am sure that college education will give me a | | | | between the space stations and the earth |
| chance to become an independent and | | | | stations. |
| self-sufficient person capable of dealing with | | | | Read about organic foods. |
| everyday life situations. | | | | |