The promise of college for our generation

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Originally Posted by Ken Leung

College is something they want to get over as soon as possible and want nothing to do with afterward.
College is a collection of cutting classes and missing as much work as possible and scrape by with the minimal effort.
School and learning are something they hate, and homework and tests are something they hate worse.
College is something they struggle with, have no idea why they struggle with, and something they don't know how to succeed in.

That right there is about the best way to sum up our (what I believe to be) failing educational system.

I do agree, although unfortunately I do not have any answers or solutions.

School is not fun. FIRST is fun. But not every school has FIRST, and even fior the ones that have FIRST, not every class is FIRST. There are more things to learn in life than you learn in FIRST, but something about the structure of it makes you learn while not even realizing; and you have fun at the same time too.

Maybe that is the key: To truly learn something well, you should not realize you are in the process of learning until after you have learned it and surpise yourself in a magnificent display of your skills.

Heck, I don't know. It is late. Sounded interesting for tonight though.

I am kind of thinking though in an extraordinary education, you don't even realize you are learning. Does that make any sense to anyone?