08-15-2024, 02:53 PM
I just hope this trend continues (if we can call it a trend.)
You see, there has been a entrenched bias, coming explicitly from the college-educated in large part, that not having a college education is a "deficit."
It troubled me that people actually thought that the only place one could learn practical and useful information was from a university.
When I went to university, I discovered that most professors didn't actually teach, relegating that task to "assistants" and the diligence of the students who 'have been told' what to buy and read for the material subject. In fact, if a student were imagining they were going to be "taught" they were in for a surprise... because the onus is on them to prepare themselves to pass tests, and the professor doesn't really 'care' about any particular student (generally speaking.) Then there was the experience of sitting in a "theater-sized" classroom with a hundred other students...
I found myself completely unprepared for the 'call for personal diligence' in study, when all my experiences in high school were in large part 'success with little effort.' When the system you are being educated in isn't stellar, it became "easy" to do well.
However, university study was 'hard' and ill-suited for someone with little motivation to jump through hoops in "requirement classes" that have little (and often nothing) to do with their passion subject...
Ironically, I actually succeeded in two separate career paths in a university setting... and speaking to those there was like interviewing 'partisans' at a book burning... even my questions about having to be "college-educated" to prosper in life were met with judgmental rejection... and those were just questions... the 'indoctrination' aspect was clear even then.
As long as I have been socially aware, I remember hearing over and over (mostly from older generation of people) that they lamented the lack of vocational and trade-oriented education in public venues. I always wondered why it appeared to be a purposeful decision to not support it in public education...
Well... at least in theory, that may be changing... Good luck Alabamans!
You see, there has been a entrenched bias, coming explicitly from the college-educated in large part, that not having a college education is a "deficit."
It troubled me that people actually thought that the only place one could learn practical and useful information was from a university.
When I went to university, I discovered that most professors didn't actually teach, relegating that task to "assistants" and the diligence of the students who 'have been told' what to buy and read for the material subject. In fact, if a student were imagining they were going to be "taught" they were in for a surprise... because the onus is on them to prepare themselves to pass tests, and the professor doesn't really 'care' about any particular student (generally speaking.) Then there was the experience of sitting in a "theater-sized" classroom with a hundred other students...
I found myself completely unprepared for the 'call for personal diligence' in study, when all my experiences in high school were in large part 'success with little effort.' When the system you are being educated in isn't stellar, it became "easy" to do well.
However, university study was 'hard' and ill-suited for someone with little motivation to jump through hoops in "requirement classes" that have little (and often nothing) to do with their passion subject...
Ironically, I actually succeeded in two separate career paths in a university setting... and speaking to those there was like interviewing 'partisans' at a book burning... even my questions about having to be "college-educated" to prosper in life were met with judgmental rejection... and those were just questions... the 'indoctrination' aspect was clear even then.
As long as I have been socially aware, I remember hearing over and over (mostly from older generation of people) that they lamented the lack of vocational and trade-oriented education in public venues. I always wondered why it appeared to be a purposeful decision to not support it in public education...
Well... at least in theory, that may be changing... Good luck Alabamans!
