Quote: "Because Americans natural tendency towards "educational romanticism" Murray wrote, we push students to go to college who are simply not smart enough to be there. High school guidance counselors and college admissions officers, lost in a "fog of wishful thinking, and euphemisms" encourage low IQ, low income students to attend colleges that are too intellectually demanding and end up dropping out."
Comment: Wow! I think this quote is definitely powerful and it really catches my attention because it exposes the realities of going to college. Many people come from different backgrounds and many students probably want a different lifestyle rather than living in the traditional American college preparedness system they have everyone going for. I'm not in all means trying to say that going to college is bad, but I feel like many should have the choice to be offered this opportunity but, it's up to the students who feel that they are actually prepared to go through college, take advantage of the opportunity given and make as much out of it.
Connection: In my perspective, I think that college is good in many ways depending on how you take advantage of it weather you graduate or not. If you go to college and you gain experience as well as expand your knowledge and actually get to graduate, I feel like those students grew as they were going through the college experience and actually want to peruse higher education in the future. Whereas someone who went to college and had the same experience but didn't quite take advantage of it at all, might just have a different kind of interest in the way they learn and expand their creativity. College, I think, is a place where you can go and expand your mind, absorb in all the knowledge, and bring in your creativity by sharing it with others. And it doesn't matter if your smart or not everyone has their own way of being unique and being someone in life weather it is through college or not.
Questions: How can Americans persuade their students to want to learn and be prepared for college?
How can the country contribute to Americas students learning process?
Friday, March 8, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Three Laws of Mastery
Quote
As Carol Dweck says, "Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished exsistance if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them."
Comment
I really like this quote because it speaks in general terms about having effort and what it means in various situations that are essential to the way you live your life. In my own interpretation, the quote to me meant that effort is what you make out of it, either you apply it to how you live and depending on different situations you may encounter yourself, effort can be developed throughout these situations and may be beneficial towards the way you might see life afterwards. Having said that, in simple terms to me it means that basically if you don't have effort in any point in your life, then you really didn't live a good life and there was no point of living your life without any struggles and what not. Effort is a simple skill that I think everyone acquires at a certain point in their life and its up to them weather or not to take advantage of it.
Connection
I can absolutely connect with what this quote is defining because there has been numerous ocassions in my life in which I've had to use effort to try and work for the things that I want and am passionate about. If it weren't for the effort I put into each and every situation I encounter, then the point of having the reward at the end is pointless because you need to feel satisfied with your hard work.
Questions
Why do some people have no effort what so ever in what they do? Does this help peoples self esteem to know that they can accomplish something, anything with effort, something they didn't expect to accomplish?
As Carol Dweck says, "Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished exsistance if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them."
Comment
I really like this quote because it speaks in general terms about having effort and what it means in various situations that are essential to the way you live your life. In my own interpretation, the quote to me meant that effort is what you make out of it, either you apply it to how you live and depending on different situations you may encounter yourself, effort can be developed throughout these situations and may be beneficial towards the way you might see life afterwards. Having said that, in simple terms to me it means that basically if you don't have effort in any point in your life, then you really didn't live a good life and there was no point of living your life without any struggles and what not. Effort is a simple skill that I think everyone acquires at a certain point in their life and its up to them weather or not to take advantage of it.
Connection
I can absolutely connect with what this quote is defining because there has been numerous ocassions in my life in which I've had to use effort to try and work for the things that I want and am passionate about. If it weren't for the effort I put into each and every situation I encounter, then the point of having the reward at the end is pointless because you need to feel satisfied with your hard work.
Questions
Why do some people have no effort what so ever in what they do? Does this help peoples self esteem to know that they can accomplish something, anything with effort, something they didn't expect to accomplish?
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