Higher Education?

education n. The act or process of educating or being educated. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

So first let me qualify this post by saying that I know I am so lucky to get a college education, and if you don't want to hear me complain about that very thing then don't keep reading!


I love learning. It is so fascinating to find a new piece of information that makes another piece of information fall into place, etc. I trully believe that we are learning everyday. Today I learned about plumbing and pipes freezing. Yesterday I was learning about electrical wiring and very glad that I am not an electrician. I also learned about MIS and Globalization and Effective Presentations and the GOP and on and on.

But school itself is a very frustrating process to me. I am sitting in my Principles of Information Systems Management class. It is interesting and boring at the same time. There are some new things but most of it so far is repetitive and long. We are doing some projects that just seem to eat up my time and are repeating lots of the work I had to do in the pre-req course for this course! Yet if I don't do these assignments I will not pass the class. If I don't pass the class I will have to retake the course to get a piece of paper that says I sat through many hours of sometimes pointless classes.

That is what really frustrates be about school, it is often more about how well you can complete assignments than how much you are learning. Yet we call school higher education and higher learning. Some classes I come out of them feeling like I learned alot; but much of my education just seems busy work that has no real defined purpose. Now I know the real world is often busy work too, but that atleast has an end purpose and will hopefully further the business. Doing "problem sets" just feels repetitive. I don't know. This frustration is why I have such a hard time with finishing school in the first place. Learning-Yeah! :) Actual school classes-Maybe :(