A Student's Perspective on Open
Submitted by Ashley Lara on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 11:34am.
Open. Access. Two words when strung together produce something beautiful: the cost of my education goes down.
It means I have the choice to pay what I see fit, in most cases, for a textbook that I need for class.
For all of my college career I paid premium prices for textbooks, spending nearly $600 a semester. But did I have a choice? No. Could I do anything about the prices of the books or the format in which I read them? No. Then along came Flat World Knowledge. Discovering them rocked my world, changed my perception on how things are and what they could be.
I was delighted to score an internship with a company that has an upright mission, a truly admirable goal. I never understood how or why something as fundamental as knowledge, which should be guaranteed and accessible to every human being on this planet, would be kept at such a high price and in effect away from the people who need it.
Flat World Knowledge taught me that it’s not necessary to maintain the status-quo. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Just like with every other major turning point in our nation’s history, it begins with someone standing up and saying “No! I won’t take this anymore.” I believe that’s what Flat World Knowledge has done. It’s taken a stand against an industry that wants nothing more than to keep reaping outrageous benefits at the expense of students like me.
Now, more than ever, I believe students need to stand up alongside what is just and right. We don’t have to keep paying this much money for books. We can make sure that future generations have access to knowledge at a reasonable price. Talk to your Professors about the prices of books. Let them know you would like them to take a look at a great alternative. If enough people take a stand, we stand a chance at change. And that was the best lesson I’ve ever learned. Thought I would share it.
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Perspective
I usually write my essay about perspective/opinion on what I think would be a great topic. Perspective may mean:
Literally, in visual topics:
* Perspective (visual), the way in which objects appear to the eye.
* Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual perspective in drawings
Metaphorically, in relation to cognitive topics:
* Perspective (cognitive), one's "point of view", the choice of a context for opinions, beliefs and experiences
* Perspective (pharmacoeconomic), the vantage point from which a pharmacoeconomics analysis is conducted
* Point of view (literature), the related experience of the narrator
* Perspective (psychological), or wisdom
Proper names:
* Perspective (Jason Becker album), released by Jason Becker in 1996
* Perspective (Losing Sun album)
* Perspective (America album)
* Perspective (software), a Wiki software package written in C# that runs in ASP.NET
* Perspective Records, a record label
* Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, a magazine
In mathematics:
* Perspective (geometry), a property of triangles
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In the college career most of
In the college career most of the student spending nearly $600 a semester. Could I do anything about the prices of the books or the format in which I read them? No. Then along came Flat World Knowledge. Discovering them rocked my world, changed my perception on how things are and what they could be.
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I think every student are not
I think every student are not equal in spending money for their education. So, there should be some division for the student where they can effort their expenses.
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Going to school is now an
Going to school is now an opportunity. Only people with money and can afford all the expenses in school can have their way to make it and finish it. As I observe, It's becoming a harsher world out there, especially for college graduates. As we all know, to get a job you need experience, and you can't get experience until you have experience, and you won't have experience until you get experience. The number of college internships is getting fewer, as student aid budgets get clipped and universities prefer to raise tuition and send students running for payday loans rather than tell the football team they don't get new uniforms. The unfortunate thing is that fewer internships are paid positions, but even an unpaid internship becomes invaluable to a student who is about to graduate.
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A Student's Perspective
Great post, Now a days good education is not possible for every class.We have to pay a handsome amount of money for a good and respective course.So it is not the reach of everybody. Many of students will stay out of it because of money lacking.If have to think about it to make higher studies in reach of every class.
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