I started the idea of this blog second semester of my freshman year in college; some semesters later, graduation time calls and the question is, do I have anything to say about college life/experience/insight. Because I’ve forgotten most of what I learned freshman year (get the point?) and some semester after that, I think I’ve [...]
deconstructing Learning
June 5th, 2010 § 0
revisiting Schooling
April 6th, 2010 § 0
Four years ago I was just getting into college and trying to understand what my mission there was, and now…I’m wrapping up now and I’ve learnt: there is the academic world, and there is the real world, and both world are seriously different. Most of my classmates are thinking of going to grad school and [...]
on Spring Schooling…
January 23rd, 2010 § 0
I’m starting the Spring semester on Monday (January 25th, 2010) which will be my last (yay!); for the thousands, or millions of freshmen that would be getting into college this semester, I found it worthwhile to deal with some of the facts that would be faced in college; or – no! Not actually facts, though [...]
Academia meets Real World
January 15th, 2010 § 1
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 [...]
Schooling and Word play
December 17th, 2009 § 2
In the spirit of this exam session, I’m reminded of what school [really] is: School, school, school, Who would help my school? Some help for girls and some for boys, Some for cramming, and some for fun, Some for play and some work, Many I learn and many I forget, School for me and some [...]
a note on Schooling, briefly
December 16th, 2009 § 7
“To me, the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of the pupil. It produces the submissive subject.” – Albert Einstein “I never let schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain [...]
thinking about school
September 7th, 2009 § 1
I’m glad that many are loosing their illusion of actually learning in schools. I’m returning to college for my final year and I keep asking myself: “What have I learned so far?”We learn, memorize, spit it back for the exam, hopefully get good grades and, it’s all forgotten. Years ago, I wrote that western education [...]