Practical solutions

5 Organizing one's studies 5.1 Modules/levels of education First of all, the size of present day 'targets' to be met in one course or subject must be cut down. I started off with a subject/module/moment system, where a subject could be 'English', a few of its modules 'English literature', 'English grammar and vocabulary' or 'English conversation lessons'; their moments could be 'English theatre in the 17th century', 'Foreign authors writing in English', 'Law terms in English', 'Translating an English gerundive construction into other languages', 'Writing and performing a speech in English' or 'The phonological diversity of English dialects around the world'. From there the step is small to an even more flexible way of dividing subjects: A kind of folder system is useful, much like the way a computer harddrive stores information; From a big topfolder, for example 'Biology', one can go down the line in smaller and smaller topics. Each folder will contain a 'read-me file', or actually a module that must be taken as a prerequisite for entering any of the subfolders in this particular folder: for example, one must take the general introduction module in the 'Mammals' folder before going on to its subfolders which could be 'Whales', 'Mammals of the desert', 'Wandering mammals', 'Mammals that do not live in herds' or 'Horses'. Links to folders might also be provided from other top folders which will allow you to jump to 'Whales' from the 'Oceanic life' folder, or which allows you to view 'Islam' from both the 'Religion' folder, the 'History' folder or the 'Middle East studies' folder. This is a highly useful system not to mention for finding the right subject in a search engine (while planning your studies; see section 5.3), but also to get a division that corresponds as much as possible to real life. Any topic can be divided into a great many subtopics and the levels of division do not stop at the number three. Even the highly specified moment 'Law terms in English' which I mentioned as an example, can be further cut down to a particular field in law: 'English terms in immigration law', which in turn can be specified for the relation to a particular second language (for example Spanish or Continental Spanish and American Spanish). From this example, the conclusion can be drawn that tertiary education as an isolated level of education which must be applied for is henceforth redundant. Depth of education will be on a scale. No degrees will be required but a student's certificate will be his or her entries in the database which will show which modules you have taken successfully plus a number of records useful for statistics such as when you took it and how long you needed to finish it, where you took it, who was your teacher, etc. Since this is computer based, it is easy for an employer to sort your results by whatever criteria he likes to look at, for example all modules taken in a particular field of study, all modules finished in less than a given period of time (if he wants to find out how fast you can learn new things or what are the things you learn fast and what takes you longer), or all modules taken in a particular place (if he wants to see how much you have been studying in Spain, when applying for a job that implies frequent contacts with Spanish culture). 5.2 Options 5.3 Network 5.4 Counsellors 4 Following a child's growth 6 Grading students 7 Refreshing the system