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How Can We Bring Value Back to Schooling (a.k.a. Education)?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 11, 2013 10:33am CST
I tried a search http://search.mylot.com/search.aspx?t=web&k=value+of+schooling to find the current value, but I didn't see any mention of http://search.mylot.com/search.aspx?t=web&k=successful+dropouts history's/the-world's successful dropouts---nothing weighing one against the other.
(Maybe I should search for something like 'to dropout or not?')
But I'm seeing one way that DeVry University is trying to bring schooling back---telling us that we will soon have millions of 'jobs' (SOUTH PARK's rednecks would pronounce it "jarbs") without any college-graduates to fill them.
My first thought: 'How stOOpid do you think people are? You're affirming the misconception that one CAN'T efficiently perform the needed tasks if one has not set through the standard number of hours of mind-numbing!'
(I know that students perform tasks--from note-taking to testing--that 'revivify their minds'; but why numb them in the first place?)
But I think that graduating from college shows that one has the 'commitment' to finish a job despite the "flashy money" available to them if they dropout for the market.
That's why big stars etc. (those who get their fortunes seemingly-without education) should devote a bigger percentage of their press to their schools!
Any other solutions or opinions?
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@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
12 Apr 13
To be honest, if only my country did not demand getting a college degree first before they give you jobs, i wouldn't go to college. I would rather be an entrepreneur. Sure, i migh fail miserably on first try, but then that will each me more and get me compensated more than me getting a seemingly useless degree. I might just even travel or whatever. Or maybe, i might have Just made art, making art while my brain cells are still developing seems more fruitful than making art when I'm just old, or i dont know, I'm not sure, I'm still young, i think.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Apr 13
Aren't we all (still young)?
Anyway, that's close to what Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think & Grow Rich) wanted public-schools to adopt---making 'profit' a greater focus than 'grades' (i.e. maybe making 'grades' depend upon profit).
The important thing about school is the 'extra-curricular stuff' (both the "specials" (P.E., vocal-music, orchestra, art) & the 'extra stuff' (recess, dances, etc.))
Kinda like in life---how you only do the J-O-B stuff so you can have more fun doin` the 'extra' stuff (friends, family, shows, events).
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
15 Apr 13
i am too young in a sense that i think nothing has happened to me yet.
i agree about the extra stuff, i think about school and i dont even remember most of it. like when will i ever use algebra in real life. why did i even have to learn those things? it has never come in handy never used them for nothing.
unfortunately our lives have already been designed. all designed for consumerism. we live in a world of unnecessaries. we go to work for 8 hours for a job that we can accomplish in 3. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so scarce. and besides, as a person's salary increses, his spending increases as well.
@maxfashioned (188)
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15 Apr 13
As far as early education goes I think some teachers are doing okay. I do feel like they don't hold back students enough b/c they don't want to deal with the backlash from the parents. Do kids ever get heldback anymore? New teachers fresh from college often want to be the cool teacher, a friend befor they teach anything. I also feel that gym classes here in the US are a joke. College is so expensive, it can be hard to justify if you don't even know what field you want to go into. I would like to have higher education but am unsure what I would really want to learn. I'm 30, just think how confused an 18 year old must be.
@sanjay91422 (2725)
• India
12 Apr 13
I think there is a need of the quality in the education system. The students should be sure enough to learn the things that they want to learn and the teachers must be confident enough of the things that they teach them.
If I teach the Civil Engineering then first I have to become the role model for them, only then they will learn from me. The education system can become effective enough if we understand that there is respect for the quality in the market, so it is important to have the quality education.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
11 Apr 13
If you have the same problem as we do here in mx. Teachers here are outdated. Here they need to go back to school I think. Or they need updates training..
