A CHANGE IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY?
BENEFITS ARISING FROM EDUCATION HAVE A COST
Generally speaking, the more educated a country’s population, the higher the level of productive output and ultimately the more beneficial the outcome to the country as an economic engine. In Canada, education comes with an ever-increasing price-tag. The average tuition fee for undergraduate programs in Canada reached $5,772 for the 2013-2014 school year — a […]
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN
“You who are on the road must have a code that you can live by” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young If you talk to many parents about today’s youth and you’ll quickly hear about the culture of entitlement that exists amongst teenage kids of well off families. This is no imaginary problem. Some would say […]
QUESTIONING THE NEXT 10 YEARS OF SOCIAL CHANGE – PART 1
Clients sometimes ask me for examples of “social change” that we can expect in the next 10 years – especially after my comment that the social change over the next 10 years will exceed that of the last 100 years. So for this post and the next one, let’s look at how social change is […]
EDUCATION – NOW FREE AND ABOUT TO BE FLIPPED
There’s been a very interesting trend appear within the secondary educational marketplace over the last year – it’s becoming free. It also looks like it’s about to be flipped (on its head) as the existing monopolies that today run higher education either cooperate or are pushed aside. For the history of the world, higher education […]
STUDYING ABROAD IS CHEAPER THAN YOU THINK
It’s funny how once things get positioned in your mind one way and are hard to change. Talk to an older person and chances are they’ll still say that calling long distance is expensive. Things change of course and post secondary education has changed as well – for the better. Attending University overseas used […]
DON’T AIM FOR YESTERDAY
One of the most dangerous but typically difficult to avoid things is setting your sights on yesterdays high water marks. Whether it’s investing or planning a career, the common but dangerous thing to do is to look at what worked in the past and aim for the same target in the future. This tendency commonly […]