School has become less about learning life skills and more about shuffling as many students through as possible. Very little of what we learn in college is applicable to what we choose to do in life.
Friday, May 6, 2011
In a YouTube short "A Vision of Students Today", created by KSU students and Anthropology proff Michael Welsh they dive into the life of the average college student. The short addresses issues such as; the fact that most students will be 20k in debt by the time they graduate; world issues such as poverty, war, famine, energy, and the water crisis and how we are not being prepared for these things at all; the amount of time we have in a day compared to the amount of time students need. It's all very quite, it's a silent film minus the soundtrack. What I take from the video is that they are saying the education system is flawed and not preparing them for life in the real world. "I read 49% of readings assigned to me, 26% are relevant to my life" (KSU student), "I'm a multi-tasker, I have to be" (KSU student) "My average class size is 110" (KSU student).... What they mean by all of this is that students are not thrilled with the education system.
I really appreciated the fact that you focused on education failing to prepare us for 'real life'. With some classes at 115 people it does seem as though some schools want to just throw information at people and then throw them out.
ReplyDeleteThe last thing you said I thought was very interesting, "very little of what we learn in college is applicable to what we choose to do in life." It's something to really think about, some believe education is not preparing us thoroughly for the issues that our going on or that will continue to go on with our lives.
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