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To: koan who wrote (497430)8/24/2022 9:05:39 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542126
 
I have been lucky in life and the most important decision I ever had to make, I made correctly.

When I graduated from high school I was lost. My year book says "no plans". And I was sure I was not college material as my school work was terrible and one teacher told my girl friend to get rid of me as I would end up a garbage man.

I once went to a UC Berkeley football game and said to myself, "here are 30,000 students and they are all smarter than me.

I had no idea people learn to be smart, we are not born smart, but that is all I was ever told--college material and all that rot!!!

And why I am such a zealot about education.

I was poor so I was happy to get a job in a bag making plant. I worked there for two years, and then one day decided quit and go to the junior college.

I traded my 55 thunderbird for a VW and applied.

I also changed my DA hair cut to a comb over-lol!!

When I graduated from high school the most popular guys got Big jobs paying huge money in the asbestos union. And they bought new trucks and boats.

As luck would have it I attended a party at that time and while there an old friend and big wig in the union said he could get me in.

I turned it down and went to school.

Best decision ever.

Most of those folks are dead now!



To: koan who wrote (497430)8/24/2022 9:36:51 PM
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by the time I got here I had learned how to learn

Isn't that the whole point of getting educated?



To: koan who wrote (497430)8/25/2022 5:03:48 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542126
 
I think one of the reasons that people, at least of a certain age, advanced so much with college is that the classes were no longer taught to the slowest pupils. The people in college wanted to be there and worked to keep up (or dropped out). That was not the case in high school where outliers were ignored, both good and bad, to cater to the average student. I don't agree with filling the colleges with anyone who can fill a seat.


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