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Originally Posted by Lallymac  I believe young people are being railroaded in tertiary education before they have any of the life experiences that prompt passions.
Lallymac |
Totally agree with you there. Here in Ontario, they recently elimnated the 13th year of high school (OAC) to reduce costs and I think that has really made things difficult for basically teenagers trying to pick a degree.
Another thing you touched on: in ten years, no one's going to ask about your degree. Students get totally paralyzed by thinking that this is it, for the rest of their life, when in fact they can change careers as often as they'd like and should just go with what they're interested in right now.
Another thing is that you might be keen about doing something but not mesh with the way it is taught. For example, I want to make (and am making) movies. So I have a strong interest in the practical aspect of movie-making. However, the Cinema Studies course at University of Toronto is more or less only theory (watch movies, write essays and so on). So, not only do you have to enjoy doing something (and that includes the months of grueling work and not just the final product), you have to be willing to endure (or enjoy) the rigors of academia, including useless essays and assignments, bad professors, people with aims totally different from yours, senseless beaurocracy, etc. Yay, fun! I'm just complaining at this point. Toodles.