Comments on: What are colleges teaching our youth?

By: Be Heard! and learn what’s in a good press kit

Be Heard! and learn what’s in a good press kit — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:26:06 +0000

[...] week, I posted a bit about how shocked I was that my interns never knew what a press kit was for. So I was inspired in this issue to share a bit about press kits and what to put in [...]

By: Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:48 +0000

The nature of colleges is to teach a process. That is the only thing that can be graded. Independent thinking, socializing and get-up-and-go attitudes are un-gradeable.

I think college is great and is mandatory for all, but not because of the classes. Students must take responsibility for their own college experience – and out of the classroom they need to learn how to think independently, socialize effectively, and to get-up-and-go.

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:25:58 +0000

College was a difficult experience for me. Everyone in my family told me college taught you how to think independently, but they didn’t go to the college I went to (any of them LOL.) When I argued a “devil’s advocate” position in an ethics class to better understand an argument…I was attacked by the teacher as well as other classmates for “believing” something horrible.

I didn’t believe it, I just wanted to argue a dissenting opinion to see how it held up. Even in high school we were taught to debate things we did not believe in, because you needed to see two sides of the story in order to know your position was sound.

Colleges and Universities are just producing a bunch of young adults that know how to think one way – the way that keeps them in jobs they hate, working for people they don’t know.

It’s a sad state of affairs.