My school (UMASS Boston) will be resuming soon and of course that invites my criticism of school and schooling, to which I always argues there is need for a change in paradigm of our we approach ‘learning’.
Learning in the sense of the ‘real’ world and the ‘academic’ world. I’m still surprised that even as a senior, many of my colleagues still don’t know that this two worlds don’t translate. There is the academic world where we learn all those facts and soon forget, the world where there is only one right answer, the world where your goodness or badness is based on some letter grade, the world where there are clear failures and successes [predictably]; and, there is the real world.
A world where preparing impromptu-ly gets you burned, the real world where the path, or answer, is unclear, a real world, very unpredictable, one you cannot drop out from just because you don’t ‘like’ it.
Welcome to the real world newbies. Seniors of the academic world and super freshmen of the real world.
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