education

I vividly remember my first tuition bill in the University of Texas educational system. The reason it was memorable was that I transferred there from a private college where tuition…

Avery Gagliano is a child prodigy – a brilliant 12-year-old classical pianist who happens to be a straight-A student. According to bureaucrats in the Washington, D.C. school system though, she’s…

Philosophy begins in wonder. — Plato For 19 years, you tried… you really tried… to be the model parent. You did it all: the diaper watch, the grueling PTA meetings, showing up…

Here’s a quick cultural pop quiz. 1.) Do you know who Vladimir Horowitz was? 2.) When was the last time you listened to Brahms’s 5th Symphony? 3.) How do you…

In the race to have it all, or at least have more of it all, many people turn to a sideline job to supplement their income. If you’re going to…

For hundreds of years, education worked well at the local schoolhouse. Children learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, and other subjects, under the watchful guidance of teachers from the community. Sure, there…

Here’s a lesson for you — it’s called supply and demand. It states that when there’s little demand and your price is too high, you’re in trouble. That’s the dilemma…

A chapter from my past made me think about what it means to be intelligent and what it takes to succeed. Years ago, my high school physics teacher, in a…

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. China is the second largest economy in the world, offering a huge population whose introduction to Western consumer goods is the Holy Grail of…

Most people are aware that the Great Recession of 2008 was triggered by sub-prime lending, what those of us in the real estate industry called a “no-doc” loan, also called…