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Editorial: Reforming higher education

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/editorials/Editorial+Reforming+higher+education/7966849/story.html

There’s no doubt that it needs reform. Top to bottom if it’s gonna get people to lead happy productive lives.

Starting with the cost and End in Mind is the best way.

Putting pressure to perform scholarly or constructively is not feasible. Everyone has different learning needs, skills, abilities and learning curve rates.

It took me 50 some years to get what’s out there in the real world. Now I’m ready to kick ass and all without a University Degree. Yet I’m ready to plunge back into the system and learn what it truly costs to learn LAW. It’s my dedication to myself and those around me that will be impacted by my future actions and decisions on social justice.

I’m ready to tear it all down if I have too. Hopefully it won’t come to that and would prefer having transitions. But if it has too, it has too. Change one way or another will happen. Big and small. That’s my committment and I don’t need a University Degree in LAW to do it. Yet I CHOOSE CONSCIOUSLY to work within the system and do it with a high degree of Masochistic values to brand by fire into my memory cells everything that everyone could possibly have to go through in similar fashions.

Discuss and put it out there. You’ll see that those with high and almost impossible debt loads will be the first to speak out on reform and what it takes.

Incentives need to be put in place to help orient and guide people into the future. But at no point should they become firm bonds that tie them into corners of inescapable paradigms of ‘WELL WE’VE DECIDED THIS WAS BEST FOR YOU’.

If they need more time to decide, then give them more reasonable time. The Dance of Life is not a direct point A to B line. It’s twists, spins and spirals take time to figure out.

And it’s definitely time to put money management front row and center in education.

Too many people are done in from the lack of it. If everyone wants accountability – then MONEY IS WHAT MATTERS FIRST. Make up your minds if you’re teaching everything but money.