Aside from the long-term financial benefits of a post-secondary education, the life experiences acquired along the way will shape the perspectives and potential of tomorrow’s leaders.
Be a debt-free gradPaying with plastic for your child's education?Paying for college: Beg, borrow, steal, sweat and saveA friend of mine attended a college in Claremont, Calif., back in 1996. At that time he was part of a class project working to develop an alternative manure-based fuel supply for Guatemalans in a village where firewood was scarce. In order to produce realistic, village-based waste, my friend was instructed to eat only beans, rice and tortillas for a week. Unfortunately, the diet made him constipated and the project was scrapped when it couldn’t be finished by the due date.
