The promise of college for our generation

[Jizvonius]

Wow Ken,

I started typing replies to your post twice. They got very long and I realized that they still wouldn't do justice to the depth of the questions you just asked or fully portray my response. I was beginning to wonder why it was so hard to get the post going. Then I realized that it was the same difficulty that I have in writing long essays and term papers. It would probably take something of that length to explore the implications of what you have posed.

That said, I will just pose more questions that came up when I tried to answer yours.


In our society what factors define success for students?

Do we encourage quantitatively measuring success? Why or why not?

How else do we measure success?(what is our 'ruler')

In portraying the success of icons, do we abstract the aspects of their journey that we find undesirable? Is knowledge of the full story important?

Are we motivated by hope or guarantees?

If both which one is the stronger motivator?

Which is the better motivator?

There are more, but I'll leave it there........for now.