It would be good if students _had to_ take a year off from schooling before college so they would know why they want to go to college. The government would have to offer a lot of public-service jobs so that young adults wouldn't feel forced to join the armed forces.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Joanna <[email protected]> wrote: > Raghu writes: > > "I find this philosophy very unappealing. Even if we accept all of > Murray's premises, why not think of the college years as a form of > forced leisure? Would you rather have young people enter the labor > market at a even earlier age? For all the reasons that reduced working > hours is good, I'd argue college education is good too.." > > It doesn't have to be either school or work. Here's my idea: from 15-25, you > have everyone work some and go to school some. It's good for adolescents to > work and feel > like they're participating in society. They need to learn, exercise, work, > and have time to hang out and engage in the labor that takes them out of > childhood and into adulthood, and also learn how to deal with sex. > > There should a group of core classes -- numbers & letters -- and a > constellation > of everything else, that they could choose based on interest. Manual stuff, > bookish stuff, art stuff, ...science, computer stuff. This could continue > through the college years, allowing the students to drift themselves into > the kind of work they want to do. Anybody who wants to do more, would do a > few years of graduate school. And that's all. > Right now we're wasting the kids' time mostly. > > Joanna > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
