When you're not getting all the vitamins you need through the food you eat, you take vitamins, well after writing Compared Globally: American Students are Failures, it looks like we're all going to need some supplements for our education. In college, you don't pay for knowledge; you pay for time, time in class, time in labs, not necessarily knowledge. The greatest gift is not to attend an educational institution, but something you already have…the ability to read and become accessible to infinite knowledge. You're probably thinking reading books, are you serious? And yes, I really am.
Words and books are what make civilized men, what founds great leaders and philosophers. The ability to read is unappreciated by those that do not realize its worth. It is not fair to fall from greatness because we remain ignorant to the fact that the greatest power is not money or assets, the greatest power and the greatest nation will be an educated one.
The institutionalized system of education is not free, but the ability and availability to acquire knowledge is free to whoever is willing to seek it. I have learned more from readings than from the hours I have spent in a college classroom.
I am not advocating that books replace institutionalized education... just that people are ignorant to the fact that the system teaches you what is required to pass tests, which is minimal, and for the most part, people remain satisfied with what little they know, while a world of knowledge is available to them that they never bother to discover.
Look in your wallet and I can tell you there is one flashy card that is missing. It's your library card! So get one of those bad boys and overdraft all you want. This is one card that will give you gains instead of debt, I swear. Let the supplementing begin!
Another good place to go is the Itunes Store on your Itunes, search a topic and when the results come up, click price, so that the free options are on top. Their resources include lectures, tutorials and subscriptions.
The Major Advantages to Reading More Books and Why 3 in 4 people are Being Shut Out of Success gives you plenty of reasons to pick up a book, included are: you learn at your own pace, it improves your vocabulary, and it builds your expertise.
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Leyda Hernadez
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I'd like to read books that are interesting. I'll try iTunes later today. Thanks!
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