I then asked myself: What is the goal of college?
College is not JUST about finding a job, because I'm not doing so well in that department. College is not JUST about spending lots of money to hear sociologist professors bore me to death about "social problems" and about how we need to be concerned with everyone's feelings. College is not JUST about "wasted Wednesday" or "thirsty Thursday". College is not JUST about finding yourself as an individual at the age 21. That's what makes college so interesting and so frustrating.
Every college believes they have a special formula for success. I heard this on every tour I took during high school. College X said, "At college X every student has a unique experience to find their truth." What a load of crap. Studies have come out and said that a lot of college students don't learn anything during their time in college. WHAT? Here's a definition of College:
College is the decision for an individual to challenge himself by searching for the universal truth
Definition by the Sociologist Department: College is a special place for a person to evaluate his or her life and to find his or her truth according to his or her culture, lack of religion, and feelings.
Our educational system needs reform. Not one person would say our educational system doesn't need to be fixed. (Even School Administrators) Education is not just mathematics and science as President Obama stated during the State of the Union. Also, education is not just testing as President Bush instituted with the No Child Left Behind reform law. Teachers have little flexibility when "teachings for the test" and we wonder why kids love recess so much? So what do we do in our public school systems? Here's four changes that should be made.
4.) History teachers cannot and should not teach politics. Politics is the comprehensive grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of a science whose relevance to contemporary life is immediate, yet whose tradition is venerable. Students don't like politics, because they think it's two talking heads arguing. Politics needs to be taught by political scholars, not history teachers.
3.) Libraries are not just to use the computers. Libraries offer every individual an opportunity to learn. Reading is always better when it's not a "requirement for a class". Therefore, instead of just "recess" how about a time slotted during the day when students can take out a book and read, outside library time?
2.) Public schools should teach philosophy and theology. Huh? What do most people think of when they hear philosophy and theology: they think that's not useful? School Administrators would say it's unconstitutional because there's a complete separation between church and state in The Constitution. That argument doesn't hold water. The Constitution protects against our government from sponsoring a church such as the Anglican Church during the Revolutionary War. Religious freedom is right that all people must have. Philosophy and theology allow people to search for truth and develop spiritually as an individual.
1.) We must have a universal definition of a human being according to our human nature. If our society knows what it means to be human, than we can teach students about the true definition of human happiness.
Thank You.
