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Sure, if I were to be assigned a smart and dedicated 18 year old as an apprentice, I could have him or her up to speed and performing at my level in... oh.. a couple years probably. If educating, training & acculturating him was my job.
But that is not my job. I don't have time for that.
Well, yeah - then you might as well become an adjunct professor! :-)
Oh I would want more money for all that work! Adjuncts work for peanuts and it shocks me why they do what they do for so little.
My point/joke was relative to the irony of circling it back around to a professor/adjunct/whatever (details not relative) on corporate staff to do all this teaching for 'Smart Joe' who can learn anything on the job (but doesn't feel college can teach him anything).
My point/joke was relative to the irony of circling it back around to a professor/adjunct/whatever (details not relative) on corporate staff to do all this teaching for 'Smart Joe' who can learn anything on the job (but doesn't feel college can teach him anything).
I'm all for companies starting up their own education programs to compete with the university system.
Somehow I get the feeling they don't want to do that.
Many companies have collaborated with (various) colleges re: futhering educational opportunies, particularly relative to tech.
*furthering*
That assumes they have a foundation. I want the companies to do the foundation.
If we've learned anything from the pandemic it's that we don't even need school as an institution. We should close them all & sell off the property. Imagine the money we'd save.
That assumes they have a foundation. I want the companies to do the foundation.
If we've learned anything from the pandemic it's that we don't even need school as an institution. We should close them all & sell off the property. Imagine the money we'd save.
Seriously, do your realize how many students are NOT doing well without face-to-face learning? This is especially true of special education students like my grandson who has autism, but it is also true of other students. Our younger students k-5 are especially likely to do poorly with remote learning even if they are motivated in subjects they do love.
If we've learned anything from the pandemic it's that we don't even need school as an institution.
This is nonsensical i.e. changing the environment via (more) online 'classrooms' doesn't change the fact school is an educational (as well as a social) 'institution'. That won't change, despite potential (and needed) restructuring down the pike.
Keep in mind online classrooms were a part of the landscape long before the pandemic.
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