Is Education Worth It?

A rather controversial article on TechCrunch this past weekend has apparently caused quite a stir, begetting a follow up article on the same website. The originator of all the fuss was PayPal co-creator and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, who proposed that people who drop out of college, or otherwise opt to pursue other avenues [...]

Play time’s over. Learn something.

The Huffington Post website posted an interesting article yesterday that caught my eye and brought back memories of my experiences in school. In the article, Tina Barseghian, Editor of MindShift, a website about the future of learning, describes how video games are better teachers than the humans academic institutions employ to instruct our children. While [...]

Penny for your thoughts

Greetings mediocrity-lovers, I don’t usually like to get political, but a particular article posted to a blog on the NPR.org website piqued my intellectual curiosity. As a disclaimer, I have only taken introductory college courses in Economics, but I did well in them and have a good enough understanding of the principle of supply and [...]