While many of my fellow students have part time jobs to make some extra money, I thought that I would try something different.  I thought that college would give me the opportunity to try new things, so I thought it was the perfect time to try my hand at being an entrepreneur.

But my biggest challenge was trying to find some sort of business model that would work around my busy school schedule.  I didn’t want to have a large time commitment, nor did I want to start something that I was going to be married to, so that sure didn’t give me a lot of choices.

After brainstorming with a number of friends, I ended up deciding that offering a diploma framing service was going to be a perfect fit for me.  It is a pretty lucrative business with very low overhead (since I just order the frames that my clients need from the Internet), and there are really only two busy seasons in the entire year – December and April.

The first year was a little rough to get going, but now in my third year, I know that I have made the right choice.  The business is thriving and I think I might even continue it after my college days are over.  Not bad for my first business, right?

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Philosophy of Education is an important field of study that looks at the methodologies in education in comparison and juxtaposition with methodology of education in the past.  This noble study seeks to define why education is important and why we seek to be educated, beyond the mark of earning a decent salary.

Not all decent salaries require higher education, yet there are some students who are known to spend their lifetimes racking up degrees; simply because of their passion for learning.  The study of the philosophy behind education looks at why that may be, and seeks to explain why we do what we do when it comes to our own education and the education of others.  One of the fundamental pieces of educational philosophy is the history of education.  An in-depth understanding of how people have educated others throughout history is imperative to understanding the very basis of ideas related to educational philosophy.  How is this philosophy applied? 

The explanations for reasons relating to education are applied toward making decisions regarding educational programs, bills and laws.  Who is entitled to an education?  What is an education?  How should people be educated?  These questions are not even the tip of the ice berg, and already can fuel the politics of education. 

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