Thank you all for sharing all the wonderful lessons learned during your days in school.

I truly enjoyed reading your responses and found it was such a great reminder to me that much of who we are today can be attributed to the concepts and ideas that we learned as students.

I also found it interesting, but not surprising, that much of what we remember from our days in the classroom had very little to do with the actual content of what was being taught. The real lessons can from the principles we were able to gain or learn.

Thanks again for your thoughtful answers. It was difficult to narrow Read More...

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough talks about the value of education.

He sites Milton Friedman, the famous economist, who said the most powerful motivating force is self-interest. He took this a step further and also said it is also our interest in our children and grandchildren. The overriding riding theme behind this Read More...

With students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.

Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.

So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:

What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?

This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...

Download Teaching Memory Training to Your Kids mp3
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If you have attended our memory training workshop, you understand the value of a strong memory. But what is the value to your child? Three things:

1.) An enhanced memory will help kids believe that they’re smart, which builds self confidence. 2.) It equips them with a valuable habit that will serve them in their relationships and endeavors in life. 3.) It will make their lives and yours Read More...