Archive for July, 2009

Youth’s Education Compromised

Since the early 60’s, our educational system for our children has been slowly eroding.  Our government has been notorious for promising better education, not one child left behind and yet in 2009 many college students and high school graduates are unable to pursue a higher education due to the horrific increase in cost.  High school [...]

Why Adolescents Should be Provided With Sex Education

The issue of whether schools should offer sex education to their students and how explicit these lessons should be has been a controversial one for decades. It always seems to initiate disputes. In 1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in the US, was fired for stating that it is essential that students be taught about masturbation [...]

Opening the Door to the Hero’s Journey for Out-of-school Youth

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”  Joseph Campbell The hero’s journey comes from the structure of ancient and modern mythology. In ancient [...]

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