I agree with your suggestion that we stop thinking that a university degree or college track is for everyone. There are so many opportunities today available through specialized routes.
My 22-year-old daughter is playing a key role in the development and deployment of the world's first evaluation that holistically considers all of a student's sensory processing functions to determine addressable, sustainable solutions to learning challenges.
She is front-line every day with the doctors leading this charge. I see her opportunity as outpacing any traditional education environment. Yet she continues to have friends and older adults counseling her that she needs to put her work on hold and get her degree so people will "take her seriously" — an interesting point of view given the joyful (tearful, ecstatic) responses of the children whose lives she impacts and their parents who have finally found an end to their long, frustrating searches for answers.
Those whose lives are better for her efforts seem to take her very seriously.
Whether in formal classroom settings or otherwise, we would all do well to help our younger people discover how to think in ways that open up vistas and opportunities that will never present themselves in the confines of institutionalized thinking.
I agree with your suggestion that we stop thinking that a university degree or college track is for everyone. There are so many opportunities today available through specialized routes.
My 22-year-old daughter is playing a key role in the development and deployment of the world's first evaluation that holistically considers all of a student's sensory processing functions to determine addressable, sustainable solutions to learning challenges.
She is front-line every day with the doctors leading this charge. I see her opportunity as outpacing any traditional education environment. Yet she continues to have friends and older adults counseling her that she needs to put her work on hold and get her degree so people will "take her seriously" — an interesting point of view given the joyful (tearful, ecstatic) responses of the children whose lives she impacts and their parents who have finally found an end to their long, frustrating searches for answers.
Those whose lives are better for her efforts seem to take her very seriously.
Whether in formal classroom settings or otherwise, we would all do well to help our younger people discover how to think in ways that open up vistas and opportunities that will never present themselves in the confines of institutionalized thinking.
Excellent example Bryan. Thank you for sharing.