The American Education System is Failing Me, How About You?
@consciousliving112 (79)
United States
March 25, 2009 4:53am CST
Throughout my lifetime of education, I have felt constant disappointment with the delivery and systems of evaluation used in the US. When I was younger, I consistently brought home straight As. I recognized that most of the work was a tool, solely designed for filling our time with generally mindless fill-in-the-blank assignments.
After a particularly rocky sophomore year (non-academia related), I dropped out of high school, only to return and graduate with honors. Now I am in my second year of college, in the face of the worst economic disaster in history, and I am wondering what the point of a degree is. I am wondering if it's worth it to go into debt for a bogus education to prepare me for a non-existent job market.
What are your thoughts? - college grads? working men/women? students?
1 response
@jeneias (608)
• United States
25 Mar 09
Let me put it this way. I'm 16, and already studying to get my GED. Yea, that's pretty bad, if you think about it. The American Education System has already failed me. My last option is to just get the GED and get it over with. I'm not even sure about college, because of everything that's going on with the economy. I agree with you, too. I don't want to waste my money on college, and go nowhere with it in the end. I don't think it's worth the time, either.
@consciousliving112 (79)
• United States
25 Mar 09
I'm glad to hear somebody else feels the same way. To me, it seems like education limits people more than it aids them, especially straight out of high school. It limits independent thinking and creativity from an early age.
I'm curious to hear from current university students what they think about this...
