Having worked at a school for several years, I hastily learned something about young people in our civilization this week… several of them really should not be in a place of higher learning, then i’m not trying to be a butthead, I’m just saying that it isn’t everyone’s calling in life… There are plenty of people who don’t like book learning, don’t desire an advanced degree, plus don’t take education seriously.
- That’s all totally fine, however they need to acexpertise their own strengths plus weaknesses instead of taking the path more travelled.
That’s why I would try to gently redirect their focuses to other fields, when it seemed like a fantastic idea. One student, in particular, was not meant for the traditional classroom. I was pretty sure she belonged at a trades school, plus I highly recommended she looked into the Heating plus Air Conditioning industry, see, she loved to labor with her hands, plus she was typically fiddling with the temperature control device in class rather than paying attention. I would find him pressed up against the control unit, taking off the front panel plus rewiring the system. Several times, I discovered him taking the metal plate off our huge air vents plus cleaning out the HVAC ducts inside. Once I even found him on the roof, examining the huge central a/c locked up there. I started assigning him extra learnings about Heating plus Air Conditioning worker coursework plus positive projections about the future of the ventilation business. I know it was perhaps manipulative, plus the school wasn’t unquestionably glad when she dropped out separate from warning… But it was clear that she was meant for temperature control system upgrade plus repair, not financial accounting.