Category Archive: Education

May 07

Real Games People Should Play

There are many game we play grow­ing up. Many of these games serve no real pur­pose other than enter­tain us. A few how­ever, may actu­ally be fairly ben­e­fi­cial to peo­ple. Let’s look at a few. Chess There is prob­a­bly a rea­son this game has been around for hun­dreds of years. This game teaches you to think …

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Apr 04

Misguided expectations

Today, many peo­ple grow up admir­ing the wrong peo­ple. A per­fect exam­ple of this is the sports super­stars. If you think about  where most of these ath­letes come from (bad homes, abu­sive fam­i­lies, etc.) you would quickly real­ize that these peo­ple should not be our heros. idol­iz­ing these peo­ple is unfair to every­one. They don’t have …

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Mar 30

How did we get here?

As you stare at the mound of bills com­ing in the mail this month, and try to bal­ance it in your mind with your mea­gre pay­cheque, you may be ask­ing your­self that very ques­tion. Well, like most things, it’s prob­a­bly what you’ve been taught that lead you here. I know my par­ents never really taught …

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Mar 28

How you can sell things cheap and make a profit

Ever won­der how a com­pany like Quibids can sell brand new pieces of tech­nol­ogy for a frac­tion of their price and still make money? They don’t make money off the prod­ucts, they make money off the bid­ding. Quibids for exam­ple charges 60 cents per bid, each bid raises the price of the prod­uct by one cent, …

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Mar 15

Great Expectations

How many of us were brought up with a finan­cial edu­ca­tion? Any­one? Out of my gen­er­a­tion, of all the peo­ple I know, I don’t know any­one. Today there is talk about imple­ment­ing finan­cial edu­ca­tion into part of the reg­u­lar cur­ricu­lum at school. Great Idea, except for one thing…who’s got the knowl­edge to develop the course …

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Feb 22

Opportunity Lost

There are some who believe that a teacher, by def­i­n­i­tion, can teach any­thing. That being said, would you want your sur­geon taught surgery by a grade school teacher? Why then are we okay with teach­ers teach­ing finan­cial sub­jects? Now, I’ve been a teacher myself, so I respect the amount of work that goes into the …

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