holy smokes!: March 2008 Archives
i know my thoughts on the matter are controversial but i really do believe that not everyone needs to go to college. i understand the need for an educated society, however, that presumes that only form of education is found at a university or college system. to be quite honest, there are other places to learn.
i find it sad that our society "only" values people who hold a degree, and at that, a degree in certain fields. i don't think education should necessarily hold a purpose or a degree should be utilitarian. learning can be done for learning's sake. why not?
so when i see articles like this one on cnn today, i am very pleased with it. i find it valuable for students to have "other" experiences. those experiences of traveling, volunteering, working, etc. are invaluable tools to a world view and a perspective that cannot be learned at a university, or for that matter, valued appropriately by the student with no experience.
i find students today frequently shuffled into college when they aren't ready. they only sigh-up because they are told this is what they have to do. for four, five, six years, they are miserable, have no goal, no perspective, no idea why they are there nor what they should be getting from the experience. this is tragic to me. i so wish someone, somewhere, ANYONE, (thank you princeton) would say, take a year, travel, volunteer somewhere, teach english, do mission work (ugh!), get a job, gain some perspective before agreeing to do something that you don't even understand why you are doing it in the first place.
i would make an awesome high school counselor. parents would have me fired!
i find it sad that our society "only" values people who hold a degree, and at that, a degree in certain fields. i don't think education should necessarily hold a purpose or a degree should be utilitarian. learning can be done for learning's sake. why not?
so when i see articles like this one on cnn today, i am very pleased with it. i find it valuable for students to have "other" experiences. those experiences of traveling, volunteering, working, etc. are invaluable tools to a world view and a perspective that cannot be learned at a university, or for that matter, valued appropriately by the student with no experience.
i find students today frequently shuffled into college when they aren't ready. they only sigh-up because they are told this is what they have to do. for four, five, six years, they are miserable, have no goal, no perspective, no idea why they are there nor what they should be getting from the experience. this is tragic to me. i so wish someone, somewhere, ANYONE, (thank you princeton) would say, take a year, travel, volunteer somewhere, teach english, do mission work (ugh!), get a job, gain some perspective before agreeing to do something that you don't even understand why you are doing it in the first place.
i would make an awesome high school counselor. parents would have me fired!
now i know that i am seriously biased since i am a french teacher. but seriously, how can i not find these kids charming and adorable? huh? how? also, the girl in the green dress is totally amélie's virgin-birth love child. seriously. and i am not saying this just because white people like multilingual children... this is cute.
to see the other videos from other levels, check out the link at actfl.
to see the other videos from other levels, check out the link at actfl.
a friend recently found a website and knew immediately that i would fall in love with it and want to marry it and have its babies. i read one article and am already pregnant.
stuff that white people like has got to be one of the funniest things on the web right now. maybe it is because i am a total narcissist and most of the articles apply to me in some way, shape or form, or maybe because it is clever.
stuff that white people like has got to be one of the funniest things on the web right now. maybe it is because i am a total narcissist and most of the articles apply to me in some way, shape or form, or maybe because it is clever.
