Today I finished the final touches on a design of a website and blog for a group of students at the University of Maryland. The site is StartDreaming.org. The students formed an elite group, with some faculty supervision, dedicated to helping high school and junior high school students find their financial way to college.
I was [...]
When Gregg Zehr was approached by Amazon.com to develop Kindle, he asked why he should be interested. The answer they gave him: “To change the world.”
Anyway, Kindle is now here. Whether it will change the world remains to be seen. But it does allow you to take 200 books with you (virtually) on your next [...]
The failing of higher education is what I call it — a 2.2 trillion dollar industry that is probably better at making money than it is at transforming lives.
One of the essential aspects of personal development is knowledge that comes from higher education. And in this you will find the Pareto Principle rings true: that [...]