Education has been something I have been involved in for quite some time now. Not as a teacher, but as a student. Lots of people go to University for 7 to 8 years, their called Doctors, Lawyers and well me. And in this long time of study I feel I have learned a thing or two about education itself. I have gone to such classes as Ski and Snowboard Tuning and Repair (SKB120), Public Policy and Administration (POLS351), Film: Creative Process I (THE300), English Composition I (ENG101) and Fire and Emergency Services Administration (FESA336). I have taken these classes and more from Paradise Valley Community College, University of Maryland Online, Arizona State University, Colorado Mountain College and Colorado State University On campus and Online. With all of these environments of study in ones experience it is hard not to study the act of studying.
What is learned by all this studying of studying? That it doesn’t matter if you are learning about movies, public administration, the inner workings of fire and emergency services or the basics of essay writing in ENG101 you could have learned all of these things without going to school. By simply talking to others on this planet you can learn everything that you could ever want tp know. Why go to school then? Why spend the time and money to get a degree? Because it’s all employers have to judge you on these days, or so they think. The system is broken, it tells everyone to hold a job that you must go to school despite the thousands and thousand of people who do not hold degrees that are doing just fine. These people of course are not in on the joke and are told they do not have it as good as someone with a degree, despite the fact that many of them have worked their way up to make just as much if not more than a person who holds a degree.
Should people stop going to school? No, that is not my point at all. School is a great place to experience new things. Just do not look at it as a necessary step in life, because it is not. Just do not look at it as an answer to a problem. Life is not a matter of looking for a solution, it is simply a matter of just looking.
One of my favorite videos ever is Sir Ken Robinson talking at the TED talks about how education is set up needs to be rethought to produce more than college professors.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html (there is a clickable link under the links heading title “Biggest Inside Joke” to the right on this page)
