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RE: Age of Information - University Vs Youtube - A Response to Ecotrain QOTW...
Part of it is that tech moves so fast that education hasnt had a chance to catch up, and part of it is because the whole system is a BUSINESS, and not a very flexible one at that. It takes a lot of creative thinking to come up with an entirely new system and then you have to get everyone on board. Poor teachers are so dead tired just doing what they can to earn a living and are pretty powerless to change anything.
You've had such a life, I love hearing your stories. I reckon the trades are where unis are totally redundant, but they haven't got as much funding here as tertiary ed does, yet, if you do teritary ed here you are 150,000 grand BEHIND someone who's done a trade/apprentinceship - isn't that crazy!
@porters, I really do enjoy your stories, you've got so much to share and I appreciate your perspective on this.
Every teacher I talk to says the same thing @riverflows! The system is so archaic and all the old fat cats are so comfortable that change takes forever. I know teachers do their best with the resources they have and many go above and beyond to compensate and give the kids the best until they burn out. I have a lot of respect for teachers.
I cherish the internet and libraries for the wealth of knowledge you can absorb for free. I even have some uni textbooks. Not all of us need classrooms to learn. People used to apprentice for all sorts of things, learning by doing, learning from people who'd been doing those things all their lives and it worked. We lost out on so much when this sort of rich and practical education fell to the wayside and education turned into a disconnected highly controlled mega-business.
Uni is NOT for everyone and I wish they would stop pushing ALL kids into it or telling them that "You can be anything you want" because ... it really isn't true for most. It would be better that they know what the outcome could be because they should be aware of the debt and frustration that can follow their choice. There are a lot of grads stuck working at Tim Hortons selling donuts here in Canada. Very bleak. Had they had their eyes wide open they might have chosen a path with a strong future instead. A lot of my friends never did get a job/career in the sector that they'd studied and endded up having the start at the bottom in some other job which is so hard and they are also struggling to raise families and pay off that crazy debt. My son's friends are in similar situations so it is only getting worse.
I'm in total agreement with you there @walkerland - not to push it on kids but to open up other doors to garner an education and develop valuable in demand skills that will allow you to make a decent living and not be burdened with a massive debt! That debt is just insane and putting kids behind the eight ball!
I went to a conference once where they had some amazing stuff for educating our kids but they said it would take at least 5 years to get it implemented and then it would be somewhat obsolete!
Why does it always have to be about the money - making a business out of educating our young folks, yikes!
I do feel for the teachers for so many of them really want to make a difference but as you say they get tired out just from trying to earn a living and they are caught in this system!
That is crazy about the trades and there usually isn't that big debt to pay off!