PHR (Post High School Realizations)

PHR #1

One of the biggest differences between high school and college is the amount of time you are actually in class and "school". In high school you take a math class five times a week for fifty minutes and the equivalent to that in college is 2 times a week for seventy-five minutes. Let's also factor in that in college you will only take this class for a semester (give or take your college) while in high school it took you an entire academic year. If I graphed that for you, you'd clearly see the difference. Okay, so why is this important? Of course high school and college are going to have different systems, the brain is more developed when youre in college, blah blah blah, etc etc etc. The single most constant and non debatable truth we have in the world is time and if I understand the American culture like I think I do, money is time and time is money; and i'm not just talking about dolla bills. Life is all about spending time doing things that you think are valuable, right? So it seems to me like in high school I really didn't get any bang for my buck. And if you want to think about this in terms of how well a high school student could do under the 'rigorous' class load of a college student lets think about time allocation in high school vs college. The way i see it, the time you spend actually learning material is about the same. Think about all the half days in high school when "there wasnt enough time to do anything productive" so you sat there talking to friends or went over homework. Think about the days you had a subsitute teacher, and allllll of the work you did then. Think about how much time you actually spent learning material rather than listening to someone try to debate the proofs of Calculus with their teacher. In college, you come in, you sit down, you listen, you take notes, you leave. (more or less). If I put color to the graphs of how long youre in class in high school vs college the college column would be a rich dark blue, and the high school column would be a faint baby blue- so you can see how ones a littel murky dare I even say shady! Anyway. Again. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? Here's the big idea. We are the millenia generation. We are the generation of baby geniuses, teenage entreprenaures, social activists, and open minded wizards. We are a generation thats all about being out of the box, different, unique, etc and embracing it, and living it up, and making a living from it becuase we own it so much. So by sticking with these out dated ways of education we are only shooting ourselves in the foot, becuase if you spent half the time doing things you had to do effienctly you would have way more time to do other things you don't have to do and thats when our generation gets that little sparkle in our eye. We have so many more resources (technology wise, the earth really is dying shoutout to past generations for that,but we still respect you) that there isn't a sensible math equation to proove why we continue to educate our young the old way we were taught? In a society that is constantly looking for ways to do everything more efficiently so that we have more 'time' to 'do' things with, it's seems like we are over looking one of the biggest vacuums for time for adolecensts.