Edumacation

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by milefile
This reminds me of how everybody said in school:

"In America you can be whoever you want to be, do what you love, and the money will come."

I have serious reservations about the wisdom in that.

Why?

 

[milefile]

Becasue it focuses on and magnifies a rarity, an exception.

 

[1X83Z]

Doing what you love?

That hasn't got to be a rarity or an exception - it shouldn't.

 

[milefile]

Howmany people do you know who do what they love?

A good example would be people who love playing music. I'm willing to bet that less than 5% of them make any money at all at it, and out of them even less can support themselves with it.

The expectation is simple: go to school, get done in the prescribed amount of time, and get a job. There is no time to even find out what you love.

And now to bring it back to topic...

That's why school should be only a few hours a day. The rest of the time should be spent exploring on your own and with family and friends, outside of any state institution. If parents can't handle this then there are fundemental structural problems in society. They should be able to at least choose this. But it seems almost impossible.

A goal of mine is to be able to send my kid(s) to a private school, not necessarily perochial. I'm willing to pay for a little direction and purpose beyond passing standardized tests so the administration can get bonuses.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by milefile
Howmany people do you know who do what they love?

I don't do what I love, but I love what I'm doing... so perhaps there's a trade (i.e. find something you love to do and do it).

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by M5Power
I don't do what I love, but I love what I'm doing... so perhaps there's a trade (i.e. find something you love to do and do it).

Fair enough. I'll by that. And maybe this would be a better thing to tell students, too, instead of telling them do what they love and the money will come.

Most people love having sex but...

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by milefile
Fair enough. I'll by that. And maybe this would be a better thing to tell students, too, instead of telling them do what they love and the money will come.

Most people love having sex but...

Don't tell me you can't get rich that way, though...

 

[milefile]

In a perfect world.

 

[ledhed]

In a perfect world you won't take a chance on getting an incurable disease by having sex. Gettin paid to would be a bonus.

 

[Klostrophobic]

I get paid not to have sex.

The joke's on you.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by youth_cycler
...And what also makes me mad is the amount of wasted time... everything that I'm going to be learning in my English classes in the next three and a half years could probably be taught to me in one semester... but instead, I'm stuck with a heapful of people who are slower than I am....[/B]

Why don't you enroll in honors classes? They're more interesting and challenging. My English teacher(I'm in 10th grade) taught the class as if it were a college course, kind of....

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by rjensen11
Why don't you enroll in honors classes? They're more interesting and challenging. My English teacher(I'm in 10th grade) taught the class as if it were a college course, kind of....

I'm in Honors Algebra II and AP Bio. There is an Honors English class (and in fact, I took the entrance exam and passed it), but from having talked to people who already took it, I decided not to do so myself... basically, the only difference was that you got to write even more essays. Woo-hoo, just what I needed.

Honors Alg. II and AP Bio though... now those are some great classes! I actually learn stuff there.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Honors classes are crap here. Even AP classes aren't all that great. I take AP Economics, AP US History and AP American Literature and the only one of those that challenges you at all is the American Lit class. The History and Economics classes are scaled so much it's ridiculous.