Brown Motion

It is time.  It is time that our fledgling that was just a silly, toothy, yet curious person, one who till few years ago required day care after school is entering a phase where the very identifier has the words 'High' in them marking a sort of apogee of primary learning. It was certainly a different time when my spouse and I on another continent also reached this age but due to the naming standards of the day or the style of schooling we did not do 'High School'.  It was simply a passage through grades ending in 12th grade scores that would determine what if any curriculum we were likely to pursue, in order to chart the course of our lives. Now a different age, an age of internet, an age of pocket sized super computing, ask and you shall receive search capabilities and instant gratification devices and services, our child embarks to seek higher education that will be a key stepping stone to her future. The pricing for said service or schooling has certainly been...

Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates . The procedures and traditions surrounding academic graduation ceremonies differ around the world. Whereas in most countries a graduation usually only occurs at university level, in the United States graduations often occur at high schools where no higher education qualifications are conferred upon the graduates . In a graduation ceremony the students dress up in special graduation caps and clothing that are made just for this purpose. So it was last week where all across America students graduated from kindergarten all the way to college.  As with word usage and ceremony the local culture plays a key role in what defines a term.  America is well known for capitalizing on any idea and milking it even if it is a bull (pun intended). Take graduation for example. I literally saw small children the size of a gnome holding ...