RE: Your creativity and skills are being murderd
November 8, 2012 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2012 at 9:57 pm by Fryslân.)
(November 8, 2012 at 9:43 pm)Annik Wrote: There is a concept I learned from a mentor of mine a few years ago. This article explains it better than I could. Apply the same thing to education by imagining how much easier it would be (and how much simpler the solutions would be) to have people who have a varied background working to solve a problem. If each of them have only focused on one field without going indepth with any others, they would all be at a disadvantage. Not only does having a varied educational background give you a common "language" in order to communicate and understand different concepts, but it opens your eyes to new, more creative ways to solve problems in everyday life and in the feild you're interested in.
Another example: I hated working in InDesign. It was confusing and complicated and I didn't understand it after first. However, it is the most efficient tool for creating print layout and booklets. I could do page by page in Illustrator or Photoshop, but it would decrease the quality of work and take me a lot longer. It was better for me to bite the bullet and learn InDesign and I'm a much better, varied designer for having done so.
Dear mother of fuck you're impossible. Who said anything about focussing on ONE thing. I'm talking about THINGS. Read my other examples. One thing/subject will lead to another, and then another and then some. Eventually I believe you will know enough to function perfectly in a sociaty. So you won't know just one thing.
(November 8, 2012 at 9:45 pm)Annik Wrote: I made a hobby into a career, so I'd examine your interests and see how you could make money from it.
contradictory
(November 8, 2012 at 9:44 pm)festive1 Wrote: What about someone like me? I scored well in all subjects, particularly math, but I'm not really drawn to anything as a profession. I certainly have fallen behind my peers who studied mathematics to their fullest. I play piano proficiently, but not well enough to make a living from it. I have a degree in history and I am a good writer. But I have no "calling" for anything that I can identify. I'm a jack-of-all-trades, but not outstanding in anything. How should such students be treated? Maybe I'm just asking because I'm looking for career options at this point
You're a perfect example. Because I was good at sociology doesn't mean I want to be a socialworker. There is always more. People don't just like ONE thing or the thing their good at. But if you had the chace to explore these fields more in a different schooling system you probably would have found a way to combine these subject that your good at (and some love to do) and wopuld have optimized these by now. But our curent schooling systems are teaching in the wrong way.
