05-08-2013, 01:33 AM
Seridano, this one of the subjects I have a soap box for... *digs it out of the closet and dusts it off*
My first experience with this issue came when I was a freshman in High School and had the good fortune to get a teacher that could actually "teach." And by teach, I mean he actually made us think. No spoon feeding the baby birds what was on the test, although, there was a little of that because he had a school board breathing down his neck, like most teachers do. He was the first to say that the system had become greatly flawed, first at the grade school level, building up through middle and high school and was snaking it's fingers into the college system. (He also taught English classes at one of the community colleges in the county.)
The further decay of the educational system, at least in my humble opinion, is the mass pushing of ITT Tech, DeVry University and University of Phoenix, schools that teach only for a specific "degree" or "certification" of higher learning. (At this point, I will go ahead and say that I went to a vocational college for Medical Assisting. Was not a college that I got a degree from, more of practical training for a real life job.) I say these schools are pushed due to the relatively short amount of time it takes to obtain a degree.
A little random, but my brain is fried from work. Learned lots of new things today.
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