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  • Aquinas’ 16 Steps to Becoming an Intellectual

    Aquinas’ 16 Steps to Becoming an Intellectual0

    • July 17, 2015

    An apprenticeship under a master is perhaps the best way to learn something. So it also goes with learning itself. If you want to become an intellectual, it helps to seek training from a master intellect. Undoubtedly, St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was one of the greatest intellects the world has known. He once told someone

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  • April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party

    April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party18

    “April is the cruelest month,” begins T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.” Literal-minded folks living in Minnesota in January or Alabama in August might get a few chuckles from that line. Cruelty and chuckles aside, April is also National Poetry Month (NPM). Initiated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, “National Poetry Month

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  • Apprenticeships: A Safer Bet?

    Apprenticeships: A Safer Bet?0

    • February 9, 2015

    Chances are you’ve seen an infographic showing the huge return on investment that a college degree offers. But a new study entitled “Dropouts, Taxes and Risk” suggests that the ROI on college isn’t as great as it seems. This is because many studies evaluate the best possible outcome of a college education, failing to account for risks such as

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  • Apprenticeships Offering Students a New Way Forward

    Apprenticeships Offering Students a New Way Forward0

    The push to send young people to college has grown by leaps and bounds in the last several decades. Perhaps, then, it’s no surprise that this great demand for college has driven the price to astronomical heights. For evidence of this price increase, one need look no further than the chart below from University of

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  • Apprenticeships Are Not a Sign of Failure

    Apprenticeships Are Not a Sign of Failure0

    There’s a clear message given to almost every high school student these days: go to college or you’ll be a failure. According to The Guardian, this mentality is what is holding many young people back from pursuing the apprenticeships as an alternative to higher education. But in reality, students who pursue apprenticeships are actually the

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  • Apprenticeships Are Leading a Quiet Revolution in Higher Ed

    Apprenticeships Are Leading a Quiet Revolution in Higher Ed0

    There is a revolution happening in higher education. It’s happening without fanfare. It’s in what futurist investor Peter Diamandis might call the “deceptive phase”. This revolution is the rediscovery of a longstanding idea that somehow got lost in the last century or so: apprenticeship. The Loud Nothing Higher education is a popular target for reformers.

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