Category Archives: Education

College or Golf School?

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Spring is the time of year when many high school seniors have to make decisions about the rest of their life. With graduation just around the corner, college acceptance — and rejection — letters begin arriving. While an acceptance may relieve the anxiety of not knowing, receiving multiple acceptance packets means that it is time for the student to make one of the first major decisions of their adult life.

Figuring out what to do with one’s life at that young age can be completely overwhelming. While some kids feel a calling to a specific vocation early on, most are still trying to figure out who they are and what they might want to do with their life. They may be struggling to figure out if that college degree is really worth tens of thousands of dollars or if they would be better off following their passion and getting a more specialized education, such as those offered at art school or golf school .

While many people may laugh at the idea of going to school for golf, there are literally millions of jobs in the burgeoning golf industry. Many are management and director level positions, offering high salaries with bonuses and the added benefit of being able to play the game as part of the job description. Golf programs offer an accredited degree in golf management that prepares students for those leadership positions as well as a slew of other professional positions in golf companies and tour organizations, at golf courses and clubs, and even in journalism , advertising, and the sport itself. In fact, many colleges and universities have begun offering similar degree programs, though they will not likely have the same industry connections and experienced instructors as the more established schools.

Home Schooling Tools

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There are numerous associations and organizations that exist to help parents who choose to home school their children. They can provide lesson plans, sample tests, and even instructions for demonstrations and lab experiments. All of these materials are designed to meet various state educational standards and help parents to prepare children for future schooling, work, and life.

More creative parents will want to design their own curriculum and make learning as fun as possible. These are likely to be the parents that grew up sleeping under a Hawaii Wall Map and dreaming of visiting exotic places. They want to bring a love of adventure, art, and music to their children as well as a passion for learning.

They will be constantly looking for original ways to use learning tools. For example, a New York Wall Map can be used not just to teach about geography. It can become a tool for mapping out historic battles, understanding natural resources or even serve as a model for an art class.

The ability to think outside the box is the best quality these parents bring to home schooling their child. As a result, their children will develop skills in resourcefulness, creative thinking, and problem solving. These skills won’t be taught directly, but will be learned by observing the example set by their parents.

Turning Young People Into the Leaders of Tomorrow

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The core of Southwestern is the idea of bringing in new people, watching them grow, and then offering them bigger and better positions inside the company if they still want them. Spencer Hayes , a man who has been the chairman of the board for a long time is fond of saying that you can’t build a company, you can only build up people, the people have to build the company. That is probably why he is part of Southwestern Company, because there have been times when there was almost no one working at the company, just a few people, and the company was built back up to to significance it has today through the hard work of the young booksellers who took off into America selling books, and came back wanting more.

The time was actually right after WWII and the company had almost shut down during the war. There were few young men who were able to go to college, and there were even fewer young women who were not working to support the men across the seas. In the end, not counting the secretaries, there were a total of five full time employees working at Southwestern Company, three of which had been sales people for at least a year, and were determined to get more people into the company and to get the books they produced moving out the door. While the company was small, they still felt lucky. With men coming home from war, they were finding it a lot easier to sell books to people. It was especially easy compared to the Great Depression when the company had first started to dwindle because no one had the money for books.

By 1948 the sales force grew exponentially with a whopping four or five hundred sales people and more coming in. Most of them signed up for the money, but soon found out that it was a lot more than money that they were earning there. They were building character, street smarts, wisdom, and other things that school just can not instill in you. That is why so many of them stay with The Southwestern Company after that experience.