Learning can be difficult and expensive.
In many cases adults and kids alike find particular subjects boring, or hard to understand . That is usually because there is no foundation to understand these subjects. I personally have a distate for sciences....my dislike for science started in high school where I found myself lagging behind other students and not relating to what the teacher was teaching. So I grew to resent the subjects.
I have a four year old nephew who has totally amazed me due to his competence. He can read; play technical games, puzzles, surf the net etc. I give all credit to his parents who set the foundation early. He is now learning spanish at a very fast rate.
Foundation in learning is very important. Simple things like teaching a child how to link certain words; provide him/her with simple memory tactics; give him or her items to relate to what he/she is learning is very important.
In this day n age, parents have absolutely no excuse for not setting the right foundation, except for laziness! There are tons of material online and hard copies that a parent can use to lay that firm foundation. A parent does not have to be very educated to teach his/her child. As I hang out with my nephew I am learning new concepts of conveying technical material to him. And the more I do that, the more he enjoys and the more I find pleasure in teaching him. I took spanish for three years in high school; its been over 10yrs, but am enjoying remembering the language as I teach him.
Online schools are many. MIT has been offering free online courses for over a decade. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Another very captivating school is Khan Academy. Sal Khan has loaded over 1400 videos on various subjects online for everyone to enjoy. I used his videos to teach my nephew, I could help but regret that I didnt know of some of the addition, subtraction, division techniques that Sal does so effortlessly.
Sal Khan has taken the time to explain various subjects in the most simplistic manner. And the beauty of the online videos is you can pause, replay, ask a question in the discussion board etc.
It makes learning fun.
check out the website for yourself: http://www.khanacademy.org
Virtual schools are here to stay and you can learn at a reasonable budget which consist of: your time, your dedication and obviously a reliable internet connection.
The third message from heaven...
ReplyDeleteIf any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.