Thursday, November 19, 2009

Free Education

168 hours in a week.

- 25 hours of class

- 25 hours of work

- 7 hours of travel time

- 56 hours of sleep.

 

That leaves 55 hours a week of unaccounted for time.

 

If a third of that, 18 hours, is spent studying, sketching, reading, and other educational related activities that would still leave 37 hours a week for other activities.

 

A student who puts in 18 hours a week ends up getting 72 hours of  outside studying done in a one-month class. That is opposed to a student who skates by with only putting in 15-20 hours a month (3 - 4 hours a week).

 

Over a course of 12 months of classes, the dedicated student will actually have gained more than 600 hours of additional education over the unmotivated student…That is the equivalent of taking 6 more 4-hour courses in the same amount of time or having received 50% more education.

 

So if education is expensive, then why not get 50% more of it for the same price. I have never met a successful graduate who regretted spending too much time on studying or an employer who wished a potential employee was less prepared.

 

Education may be expensive, but it is cheap in comparison to ignorance. 

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