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.  
....... "start up a global fast good chain before age of 35 and go on to become a billionaire by age 45." Now do you think that become a billionaire is a measure of success? There is nothing wrong to go to HYPSM. There is nothing wrong to be a researcher, a plubmer, or even a fast food restaurant worker. As long as he or she is happy and can support himself without on public assistant. You live your own life! However, there are a lot of kids who would be very happy to go to their dream school. In this case, a good grade, leadership, and extra curriculums are absolutely necessary. This program is just for them and their family. May be one day, you can do one on how to be an Entrepreneur and enter college will not be as important. |