Vocationalism

My name is Cam Christian and I agree with Grubb's argument that something needs to be done to our education system to help us be better prepared for the world. I am in college for that reason. I use to think that I was going to college to play baseball, but I now realize that baseball will end for me someday. It probably wont be for a while, but when it does happen im going to have my education to fall back on.

I agree that something needs to be done with the system. I am going to school to get my teaching degree. Ever since i decided to be a teacher I have always thought of different approaches I could take to help propel my student. I don't think that the menotinous day in and day out drilling of subjects really helps the student. I think that there needs to be something thrown in to mix it up a little bit. Now a days kids dont exactly have the longest attention spans. Not too many people walk into history class excited to learn civil war, which they have heard over and over year in and year out. Thats why I believe our nation is "a rising tide in mediocrity". Kids have heard the same story and it gets old. I think if a different approach was brought into teaching kids would focus more.

The thing that I thought was pretty cool was the idea that we adopted from Germany; work based programs that lasted for a while and students would recieve a certificate or something to show what they have accomplished. But i have a problem with that a little bit, because when i was in high school I had no clue what I wanted to do. With that said I think this is a step in the right direction to help our country.

I decided to enroll in courses at SFCC because I think education is important. And as stated above I want to become a teacher when I am done with school. I already have my AA and returned this year because of some baseball issues. If I was not playing baseball I would already be at a 4 year school working on my degree. The classes I am taking now are classes that hopefully transfer over to the 4 year school that I go to next year. So as of now my goal is to raise my GPA and take classes that will transfer over.