Education, what is it good for?

This guys point is very insightful. I argee with most everything he said. I think it's too bad that we go to school for 14 to 16 years and when we get a job they have to train us anyways, defeating the purpose of all that schooling. Obviously, schooling can't hurt and may be critical for occupations such as a doctor or a lawyer. But for a cop, salesman, or a recptionist, they should be able to get by with a short training course spcefic to that job.
Also, i agree with him that the most important education is taught in the younger years, and the best form of education is learning humanity before math, etc. If child is taught something at a young age, they are more likely to learn it easier and it will stay with them for longer.

Somebody Has to Say It

How can you increase your self-esteem? Self-esteem is defined as “a realistic respect for or favorable impression of oneself; self-respect.” So, what can you do to raise your self-esteem? In order to increase your self-esteem, treat others with respect and do not tolerate people disrespecting you. Treat people well.
There are many things that you can do to treat people well. Listen to them and try and understand them, be honest with them, be considerate of them, be kind and courteous to them, care about them and show concern for them. If you practice these things on a daily basis with the people that come through your life, your self-esteem will grow. Your life will become more fulfilled and you will feel like you have more purpose and that you are more important than you ever realized.
Today, it appears to me that lots of people are suffering from low self-esteem. We have a high divorce rate. We have many individuals and institutions that do not show integrity in their business dealings. We have teenage mothers abandoning or disposing of their babies. We have brutal attacks from both sides of our political parties. Is our whole country lacking self-esteem?
I think in order to save our economy and save our country’s future, all of us really need to start working very hard at increasing our self-esteem. The first step to solving a problem is to admit that we have one. So, as you go through your life trying to treat people well how do you handle it when you feel like you have been disrespected? When we are disrespected our emotions start kicking in we can feel anything from mild irritation to extreme anger. You should feel something when you have been disrespected. But unfortunately, lashing out and being disrespectful right back does not help your self-esteem.
Now of course nobody is perfect and we certainly cannot be completely available to everyone all the time, so some understanding is necessary. Realize what you can control and what you cannot. You can only be in control of yourself.

Its our Environment, Take a Stand

In a time where some people believe the world is near its end, due to global warming, there are many alternative ways to create energy without harming the earth natural resources. Since the world is now more electronic and electricity is used for almost everything unlike many years ago, our planet has paid is price. As a nation, we use the most energy of any per person.
One of the best ways, I feel, is wind energy. Wind energy is a clean alternative to coal power plants, which are becoming a thing of the past. Hopefully, one day power plants will completely disappear for good. Although expensive to build and put up they would pay themselves off in just a matter of years. Becoming more common is personal wind turbines. People in rural areas, typically on ridges or places of higher elevation use these as a lone source of energy and many times have power left over to sell back to the electrical company. The money one would save on electrical bills and the money they earn by selling power would pay for the cost of the turbine and installation in just a matter of years. With just one wind turbine, approximately 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide can be displaced in just one year which is a big help for planet Earth. Saving 2,000 tons of carbon is equal to planting a square miles worth of trees. Some complain about the sound they make, but personally I wouldn’t mind a slight background sound if it meant saving loads of money and a grant from the government to construct one. Also, in this time of recession, installation and maintenance of these turbines create jobs for many people. 1000 megawatts of electricity produced by wind energy is equivalent to almost 2500 jobs.
There are many more ways of alternative energy, not just wind. Solar, geothermal, and hydrogen are excellent ways of producing clean energy. One that is close to home for me, literally is methane energy. Within the next our family plans to install a methane turbine. Being farmers we produce a lot of methane gas that grouping in our manure pit. We would collect all of the gas giving from manure and use it as a source of energy. There are many things we can do a nation and also internationally. I hope that people start to realize that we must protect of natural resources or we one day won’t have these resources to feed from.