When I am asked to look back on my education, I realize that my generation is participating in a segment of change in the history of education. Starting school with pen and paper, my generation lived through the period when education was about static textbooks and handwritten documents, but now we are moving into a new cyber age. We come from a history where religious and ethnic culture had great influence in education, but now our advanced technologies shift the primary contributors to computers and electronic media. In this change, there have been educational methods that work, but not all have been successful. Early in our lives, our parents decided where our education would begin. The type of institution we attended was out of our control: whether it was a Jewish or Catholic school, or a secular public school, our parents decided how we would begin our education based on their religious beliefs. Looking at our early institutions, we see how important religion was in our early education. Parents have resorted to religious faith for their children's future. In retrospect, however, it is questionable how much this push toward a religious environment influenced our current religious beliefs. Some of us have been positively attracted to religion while others have been repelled by it. Despite the type of institution we attended, the methods of educating students have constantly improved. In middle school, I remember my teacher telling my class that our generation is learning faster and more than she herself learned at our age. His statement reflects how refined our system has become as we are able to learn more in a shorter period of time. Teachers are now more effective and study... middle of paper... a huge resource for those who take the initiative to learn. The problem with self-education though is certification. Students who learn on their own may have the same level of knowledge, however they do not receive a certificate indicating their expertise in the field. In the transition from our old learning styles to our developing computer education network, there have been both positive results and negative techniques in education that work. There has been a huge increase in the efficiency of education through the development of technologies and we are able to communicate with each other faster than ever before. However, although we have large amounts of information, our ability to assimilate it is even more efficient through individual investigation and education. Personal interactions between students and teachers promote the best learning.