| Look at what the television and movie producers | | | | Even if you never leave your home to get your |
| would like us to think that a college education is: | | | | education, you will know more about the world |
| crazy parties, impossibly beautiful women, smug | | | | around you. Research will teach you things about |
| professors who get their comeuppance at the end | | | | history that you did not fully understand or |
| of the day. This might be the reality for a very small | | | | appreciate before. You will find yourself listening to |
| group of people; it is not education in real life | | | | the news with a wiser ear. Your view on politics |
| however. Look around in the grocery store the next | | | | might change dramatically. You will find yourself |
| time you stand in a long line; it might be that nearly | | | | speaking with more conviction and passion on a wider |
| everybody there is in some kind of educational | | | | range of topics. |
| experience at that moment. | | | | You might even find yourself starting sentences with |
| The lady with the crying baby is taking her final | | | | "the other day in class" or similar statements. You |
| nursing courses every evening at the community | | | | should be proud of yourself. Even the man who is |
| college. The man who is buying an odd amount of | | | | working his way through a number of |
| frozen dinners is taking yet another correspondence | | | | correspondence courses should be proud of himself |
| course, this time to learn how to be a locksmith. The | | | | because he is learning something that is to him, |
| older lady behind you is enrolled in an online college, | | | | worthwhile. After all, education is meant to be an |
| returning to school after a 40-year break. Little does | | | | improvement to ourselves and our futures. |
| she know, but one of her classmates in that very | | | | An online education is a very valuable tool to reaching |
| same online program is the cashier, a pretty, young | | | | the goals that you have set for yourself. Whatever |
| girl who was too painfully shy to be comfortable in a | | | | you have set out to learn is within your grasp now. |
| classroom situation. Online, she is excelling; in class she | | | | You will be able to reach the end of your degree |
| would have frozen up. | | | | program and graduate with the knowledge that not |
| Education can be found in a number of locations and | | | | only can you finish things that you have started but |
| you will be shocked by how much the world opens | | | | that you are far more intelligent than you gave |
| up for you once you have started these classes. | | | | yourself credit for. |