| It is simply astonishing the number of people who | | | | different set of skills based upon a chosen |
| do not read a non-fiction book after they get out | | | | curriculum. Finally, post grad education promotes |
| of school. Our society promotes the belief that | | | | the specialization the individual is seeking to enter |
| one gets an education to learn the basic skills | | | | a specific field. All this schooling thus qualifies one |
| necessary to become qualified for employment in | | | | to be able to get a job. |
| a particular field. However, most take this to | | | | However, what is missing from this equation are |
| mean that once the schooling is done, so is the | | | | some of the basic skills required to create a |
| learning. The student goes through the graduation | | | | fantastic life. Topics such as personal money |
| ceremony to represent the passing out of the | | | | management, passive income, stock/real estate |
| schooling phase. Most, to their own detriment, | | | | investing, or basic interpersonal skills are not |
| take this to heart. | | | | taught in our formal educational system. |
| Our society rewards the most learned people. | | | | Fortunately, information about any topic one |
| Professions such as attorneys, doctors, engineers, | | | | desires is readily available if one is willing to seek it |
| and accountants tend to be some of the highest | | | | out. Technology has brought all the information |
| income earners. This is because each field requires | | | | that is contained in the Library of Congress into |
| a lot of education. Also, these profession | | | | our homes. The internet allows for the access to |
| necessitate a fair amount of yearly training to | | | | any knowledge point one desires. However, as |
| remain abreast of the latest developments in their | | | | was mentioned, most fail to capitalize on the |
| field. Certainly most people would not be | | | | valuable resources available to them. They believe |
| comfortable with a surgeon who failed to read a | | | | that their schooling ended upon graduation. |
| anything on new surgical techniques in the last | | | | The highly successful are constant learners. They |
| two decades. This individual continually needs to | | | | use every experience as an opportunity to |
| study the latest medical developments. | | | | expand their knowledge in a way that will favor |
| What this means is that the majority of the | | | | them in the future. If you desire to make a |
| population is going through life with the education | | | | change in your life. begin today to learn all you |
| level that they walked out of school with. Unless | | | | can. Indulge in the "formal" and "informal" learning |
| we further our skills and knowledge, we simply | | | | approaches that life offers. Obviously, books and |
| are going to be left behind. The world continues to | | | | audio tapes are excellent mechanisms for growing |
| evolve regardless of what industry or profession | | | | one's knowledge base. Seminars also provide |
| one is in. New technologies make entire industries | | | | wonderful forums for learning. These are the |
| obsolete while birthing new ones. Today, the | | | | more formal modes that people put into use. |
| computer industry including all the related fields | | | | However, informal means such as people |
| that associate with it, employs millions of people. | | | | watching provide equally valuable information. For |
| This certainly is a substantial increase from 40 | | | | example, ask yourself what are three things that |
| years ago. At the beginning of the last century, | | | | your boss is teaching you? In other words, what |
| elevator operators were fairly common. Today, | | | | would you do differently if you were in charge? |
| anyone who is employed in this manner is done | | | | Answering these questions will provide you with a |
| so for the sake of nostalgia. Changes in external | | | | learning experience that can be useful to you in |
| conditions necessitated changes by individuals for | | | | the future. |
| survival. | | | | Remember that we can learn from everything |
| The learning needs of people changes as they | | | | that we encounter throughout our day. Be open |
| pass through different stages of their lives. At the | | | | to what is being shown to change the direction of |
| elementary school level, the basic of math, | | | | your life. For the most part, it all has been done |
| reading, and writing are necessary to build a | | | | before. Therefore, instead of reinventing the |
| foundation for future learning. Then, more | | | | wheel, just follow the directions for making the |
| advanced concepts are taught as one goes | | | | wheel. It is much simpler that way. |
| through the secondary years. College teaches a | | | | |