Having worked at a university for many years, I quickly learned something about young people in our civilization today… many of them absolutely should not be in a locale of higher learning, but i’m not trying to be a butthead, I’m just saying that it isn’t most people’s calling in life, and 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, but they need to accomprehension 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 good idea… One student, in certain, was not meant for the traditional classroom. I was pretty sure he belonged at a trades university, plus I highly commanded he looked into the Heating plus A/C industry, then see, he loved to labor with his hands, plus he was always fiddling with the temperature control component in class rather than paying attention. I would find him pressed up against the temperature control, taking off the front panel plus rewiring the system. Several times, I discovered him taking the metal plate off our large air vents plus cleaning out the ductworks inside. Once I even found him on the roof, examining the large central a/c locked up there. I started assigning him extra learnings about Heating plus A/C worker coursework plus positive projections about the future of the ventilation business. I know it was perhaps manipulative, plus the university wasn’t really happy when he dropped out without warning… But it was clear that he was meant for temperature control system installation plus repair, not financial accounting.