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Education, good or bad??

Okay, we all want to be "educated" and for most of us education means going to school right? But it seems too much studying is bad because you are really learning what someone else has already perfected, so why not pick a new field and be the expert of it/ be the einstein of that field. Let's take into consideration the following scriptures: PROVERBS 17:16- it does a fool no good to spend money on education, because he has no common sense. ECCLESCIATES 12:12- and my child, there is something else to watch out for. There is no end to writing of books, and too much study will wear you out. This doesn't mean all studying is bad. Hey, we study to gain more knowledge to better our future. And yes i am studying for the money not for the fun of it. After being okay with the job it's when i will perfect my field of interest to bring about change. Of course you dont need to be studying first to bring about change, you can use that idea you have right now to make a diff...

a whole new state of mind

Tell yourself 'i can do this'. Today change the way you look at things!

Why blog though??

'So, you mean to tell me that you are just going to spend endess hours typing about how incredible your day was and post it...i mean who cares??' she asked. It got me thinking about how the importance of information communication technologies (ICTs) in the rural areas of my country South Africa is not yet recognised. There is still a huge gap (aka digital divide) in these areas. Most people are only familiar with social networks (especially chat rooms) as they feel they benefit from this. But measures needs to be taken by our fellow university students (as they are more exposed to icts), the local government (whom can initiate programs especially to primary students). It's so sad to see a high school student without any clue on how to search and save iformation for an assignment on the internet or how to use microsoft word to put it all together. I cannot blame them though, we were not exposed to that part of the digital world in our junior years. I remember my first year a...