I’d happily pay for the education of the next generation if I thought they were actually being educated.
Totally agree on them being actually educated. I'm the first to say we need to attack the education system in this "Plan" thing. One thing besides getting rid of indoctrination would be to get back to basics and not all the fluff. It is all tied together. They can't teach basics because of the added fluff. And they can't teach because they can't kick out those not there to learn etc.
I love to read but I have met people through the years who really do not like to read. So it isn't always the school. They just don't like to read. Another reason I don't believe in the everyone must attend college mentality.
>>They just don’t like to read. Another reason I don’t believe in the everyone must attend college mentality.
I don’t connect reading with college only. I connect it with a need to know, and reading being one way to learn. Or with the joy of being mentally transported to some incredible adventure, while snuggled warmly at home. And I agree completely that education and college don’t march in fixed step. Even through the 10 years I commuted 180 miles each way to IBM, I kept our home in a blue collar town because that was the place most deeply tied to reality and the earth. One of my best friends had her PhD out of Harvard. Another worked on a factory line. College can be irrelevant. Passion! That’s everything. With passion, you’ll learn and then you have so much to share.
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I love to read but I have met people through the years who really do not like to read. So it isn’t always the school. They just don’t like to read. Another reason I don’t believe in the everyone must attend college mentality.
Knowing how to read is important; finding reading enjoyable is not. I agree with you about college as well, not everyone needs (or wants) a higher education to succeed.