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发表于 2014-1-8 17:07:46
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引用第48楼游客于2014-01-08 15:35发表的  :
Education is NOT schooling, and schooling is NOT education.  
As a mentor, I've been lucky enough to get to know a Northview student, courteous, eloquent and ambitious, who has worked 20 to 30 hours a week after school at the parents' restaurant ever since the middle school, and who has always demanded not get paid for the work.  
Academically, the kid is only doing OK with 3.0 GPA, and would be judged at best as a below average student by many parents here,  since the kid doesn't have any interest in those AP classes. Unlike those luminous Ivy Leaguers paraded here, this kid can articulate a self perspective that  the school is boring, indoctrinating, and senseless for the kid's own purpose in life , which is to start up a global fast good chain before age of 35 and go on to become a billionaire by age 45.  
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I can agree with this comment that this is a really outstanding student. He is responsible and has his own dream. And, the most important point is that he fulfilled his dream. So far, I haven't heard any our student graduated from Ivy League who can achieve such a kind of success like this one.
Also, I do know one girl help her parents' restaurant every day and study very hard at the same time. I admire such a student even more than one who may get into a Ivy League.
However, this seems a fiction because North View High School does not have so long a history to allow a high school student graduated and achieved such a success.
If it is still a dream, or just a fiction, you are not .... |
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