HW 41 - Initial Internet Research on Schooling

Kremer, John. "The College Dropouts Hall of Fame". 2/23/10 .

In this article, John Kremer goes through the successful people that never went through complete schooling. There are celebrities, entrepreneurs. Rich people who are successful.
In my experiment, I want to find out if you can learn how to be successful better through life experiences, or through school. I feel like school doesn't teach you how to be successful, it just teaches you how to move on to the next step, but you have to figure out what to do when you get there. Maybe the elementary school teaching is necessary. Adding, Subtracting, telling time, but maybe not. Can you learn that from just being out in the world? Do you need the social pressure and put down of school? Do you need to constantly stretch your brain to stay focused in class to the point where your completely worn out by the end. School is

HW 40 Interviews

Question: What do you look forward to in school?
Katherine: Seeing my friends. Socializing.

Question: What about learning and getting a higher education for yourself? Does that matter?
Katherine: Well I don't know. Secretly on the inside it matters but I would never show it.

Question: Why would you never show it?
Katherine: Because it's not cool. Its "wack".

In HW 33 I stated that when "there is a hero who's cool, the person is usually who you would not expect to be cool, because he/she is lower class, or different." It's not cool to do well in school. But people need to do it to succeed. I think that school is something that we need to take seriously. I obviously haven't done a good job of that so far, and I realized a little too late, but if you do well in school it gives you opportunities later in life.


Question: Do you think that being couped up in this building for 6,7,8 hours a day in the prime of our lives is a bad thing?
Ian: Yes. From my own experience in school, we're told what to learn but we have no opinion on what we want to learn. Our own curiosity is really thrown to the ground. We're not being taught stuff to know we're being trained stuff to do. My question to your question is this: Would you rather learn about 'Knights and Knaves', or a social problem/having fun like doing things that you want to do. I believe that people -- children really, are really naturally curious, but the curiosity is killed in school.

Question: What do you look forward to in school?
Ian: Really just the people stuck in it. I'm not coming to school, I'm coming to you. I'm coming to the people. not the pen, like I'm talking to you right now fanning can say