Education as Modern Day Torture

I have been attending classes for the better part of my life and it seems that some of my fellow students should quit paying for school. I mean they don't seem to be able to learn or they hide that ability with expertly applied stupidity.




Maybe I have been over trained or I could be way too sarcastic for my own good. It might well have colored all my opinions a shade too dark for others to ever shine through.




As I sit in class tonight I am witness to the early process of academia in that the presentations being given in this class(a networking introduction class)I wonder if English is even the native language of So. Cal. and then if that is the case are there then no prerequisite qualification procedures in place at this university.
Which says not much for my choice of schools, even reflects on the way I have chosen to spend money on my own self improvement by enrolling here.


It makes me ponder the cash for qualification theory. Enough money and you can get graduated. Or if not enough money you can get graduated slower.

Through the Eyes of ......

So many ways to look at the daily experiences, none better or worse than others, just different. Working for someone else, collecting a paycheck every two weeks and going into the same American rut as millions of other people can be the worst feeling possible.

Get up in the morning, get dressed, get in the car, drive to work, spend the next 8 or more hours waiting to go back home. Sound like the daily grind or what. It seems to me that the entire process is just wrong.

I would be willing to work from sun up on Saturday to sun up on Monday then take the next four or five days off. I am sure that if the system had consulted me before creating the existing schedule it would have worked much better. Certainly it would have been more user friendly.

The ability to work from home is another possibility that could be explored by many of us. I have noticed in the past that when working from home the boss usually figures that you can work longer due to the fact that you are at home in the comfort of that environment. So I am not sure that working from home is actually a viable alternative.

I can see sometime in the future that everyone will be able to automate the working situation by creating some sort of proxy system. The answer is certainly in the technology to come. Let's hear it for stem-cell research and clones.

No matter how you view the problem it is just that, a problem. Of course it is not so bad that we cannot live with it, I am just thinking that improvements are in order.

Thanks for listening.