School of Hard Knocks

Uncle Bubba figured he needed some more learnin’ to get right with today’s technology. He’d been working, doing hard labor most of his life, and he could see that it was no way to grow old and reckoned he’d better get right for a change. After looking into his limited options, he enrolled in a prestigious online university. Now, anyone who thinks that getting a degree via an online institution is a piece of cake better think again. It’s a rigorous fast paced, no holds barred education. Anyway, Bubbie, always being the rebel, still has a hard time coping with the agenda of organized accredited education.

Let me expound; one pays an enormous amount of money to learn something one doesn’t know and the methods to apply the newly learned material. Sounds about right. But what’s really going on? There is a time table that must be stringently adhered to and within that time one must choose; do I learn why something is, or how to do it, because there is no time to do both. The accreditation that we all crave dictates that we learn certain amount of useless material, limiting the amount of precious time, holding true to being counter to common sense. Hey, it’s just like the American way of governing.

The stress of this is compounded by the bobble-headed instructor whom brings to class their individual whacky loads of personal baggage and judgmental attitudes. It seems that they are more interested in getting their students to jump through hoops than help them understand the material being presented, and of course their lack of elucidation is under the guise of their method of teaching. Yea… right. Their whim of floating criteria, the moving target of grading, can ruin ones GPA with every mood swing. Like more government guidelines, everything is open to one’s interpretation; you know the one, the one who is in charge. I’m paying tens of thousands of dollars to be judged. Great! So I’m being taught how to play nice and get along with others, the same thing I learned in kindergarten. But hey, at least I’ll have a degree that says to the world, “Hire me! I know what I’m doing!”

Well, I could go on and on but I have homework to do. I’ll chat with you later.