Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Extra curricular knowledge
Technical universities can provide high levels of training and preparation for entry into the rapidly changing job market. Unfortunately, the focus on practical, marketable learning is often responsible for graduates whose intellectual cache is limited to their field of study.
Through field trips, discussion groups, clubs and other extra-curricular activity, especially when supported by faculty members, our students can become more than trained job-seekers; they can become well rounded individuals who are capable of critical thinking. Our main goal as educators must be to develop the whole individual, turning out creative, forward thinking graduates that can truly contribute to the future of the world economic and cultural sphere.
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As we push further into the social media era we tend to lose focus on a real, true connection towards others, complex actions such as, facial movements and body language are now sliding toward irrelevancy as I could tell you that I am feeling good and display said emotion by presenting a generic smiley face with the use of two or more characters to give you input to how I am feeling at this point in time =), but of course, you would have no idea whether I am truly feeling this of not, because I am merely words on a screen.
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I'll cut myself off, because it'll never happen like that, but it is fun to speculate.