Posted on 10/10/2015 6:37:32 PM PDT by 100American
Thanks to Michael Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron, we know more than we want to about the goings on in the Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford in the 80s. At the other end of the political spectrum there would, of course, have been activist student clubs. Students have always made their own experiences. These days, though, things are different. While students once went to university to get a higher education, now they go to be given an “experience” by that university.
The student experience is made for the student. Universities, jittery about how they will score in the national student survey, have invested in iconic new student centres, all airy atria containing banks of Macs (ideally). They offer more and more “customer services”. They do “feedback” to death.
In one sense all this is long overdue, after the neglect some students may have experienced in the past. It would be grossly unfair to question the professionalism and commitment of those who work in student services. But there may be a darker side.
First, universities are meant to be places for exploration and experimentation. The whole point is that students do it by, to and for themselves. The danger with universities’ new enthusiasm for managing the student experience is that it may restrict the potential for exploration and experimentation.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
They named a society after the homosexual lover of King Edward II?
The entire academic system has been rendered obsolete by technology.
Going to enjoy watching it fall.
As an adult who recently finished a second degree, my “education” truly was an “experience”...charging forward unlike most of my peers, while out-thinking most of my teachers and giving my less mature classmates hell....
I’m at a community college, and the only experience anyone is interested in around here is getting a job :)
My best to you as the path to a meaningful degree is underway nut not over...
Sorry
In Business JC’s are like finishing schools, you have basic at best skills and beyond the known low quality PUbEd turns out in general the Credential game has begun for you...
You know, AA to BS to ...
And then add on other stuff, adds depth etc.
I hope sincerely that your course of study is a passion to you and a benefit to the world, I know it is!
God Bless
Lesson to young people: Life’s a b!tch and then you die.
Thanks :)
I think my writing class could be a little more intensive on grammar, since I just have been feeling my way through and don’t actually know the “rules”. The textbook she assigned (Allyn and Bacon) is excellent, but I skipped to the back and found the grammar section is over my head.
My grades are great, and the grammar section is not due to be covered, but I want to do better. Would anyone recommend a good text for independent study on this to bring me up to scratch?
Please?
I went to a commuter campus of a state school (the dorms primarily housed foreign students), and it was the same thing; most students already were working while going to school, and were there so they could get a better job when they left. No party scene, and the aged hippies that would walk around with megaphones trying to rally support for some leftist cause or another must have been shocked at the polite indifference of the students. They quickly packed up and headed to nicer campuses in NJ where students were looking for four more years of high school while living away at school on their parents’ dimes.
Who can help this young student in # 8?
Leni
Congratulations to you! Back in 2005 at the ripe old age of 43, I went back to finish my Computer Information Systems and Business Administration degrees (I had a double-major.)
It was tough raising a family and meeting all the obligations I had, but I did it and to this day still feel like it was worth the struggle. I think the best part about it was that my children saw that their father took completing his own education very seriously and they in turn responded by stepping up themselves.
Wife and I just got back from visiting oldest son today at Western Illinois University where he's a Law Enforcement major in their Honors Program. We were very blessed that he scored a full ride for four years and he's thriving.
One of the side benefits of leading by example. :-)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/definitions.htm
Here is a quick on line grammar book that might help. I have homeschooled four and this seems to cover quite a bit.
Good luck best to you
Thank you both!
The entire book is available for free online at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14006/14006-h/14006-h.htm.
My recommendation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
Amazon has it available used, low cost.
“For we all came to college but we didn’t come for knowledge, so we’ll raise hell while we’re here!” - old drinking song
The English grammar Bible IS red, black, blue books from Betty s Azar.
Any student completing these 4 books will have an obvious advantage in writing skills.
Thank you, lots of good stuff to ponder there :)
Thank you, found it at the library as well, have a great day all :)
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