I hear this phase all the time — “I want to have the college experience.” Most recently I’ve heard it from my daughter who is now close to college age. This phrase is strange to me because it really didn’t exist when I was in college. Way back in the mid-eighties when I attended college, … Read more
There has been a long tradition of classifying workers into two categories: knowledge workers (white-collar) and skill workers (blue-collar). But, is this really how we should be categorizing workers in the current age? Considering that there is an ever-growing presence of complex technologies within our workplaces, I believe it is not unrealistic to assume that … Read more
We’ve heard a lot lately about the need to improve our ethical behavior, especially in our schools and in our workplaces. But how do we do this? Can good ethical behavior be taught and learned? I don’t believe it is possible to learn good ethical behavior; instead, it must be practiced and utilized because everyone … Read more
In my last post, I mentioned dropping out of college and being ill-prepared and requiring remedial coursework as problems in Higher Education. But, an equally large problem is grade inflation. There has been significantly higher grades given out over the last 3 decades as in the past. Higher grades are granted for “signaling” purposes. Signaling … Read more
I’ll probably tell people that the best two days of my life were the day I started homeschooling and the day I stopped homeschooling. Not because I didn’t enjoy the experience. It was just really really hard, and in different ways than I would have thought. My reasons for homeschooling were many. First of all, … Read more