Mostly agreed. We have homeschooled in large part to avoid this madness. Although I am, neither of my older children are college graduates (one is a bicycle messenger and the other a musician) and my youngest (equestrian) doesn’t seem inclined towards college either. My only concern is that even the trailer has many of the education buzzphrases: “deep learning,” “conceptual thinking,” “redefine success,” “critical thinking,” “problem solver,” “creative human being,” that I think are part of the cause of the race to nowhere. We do need scientists and accountants and engineers as well as artists and musicians. We need to value all of the different sorts of people and personalities and gifts and talents that God has given. Some of those are honed by competition and crazed schedules and anti-socialism and some are not.
I like hearing about your kids and what they have landed on in life, Kim, and I appreciate your thoughts on the trailer. After watching it, my first thought was that the film is obviously not coming from a Christian perspective. So I naturally won’t agree with everything it has to say. Like you, I heard a voice on the trailer saying “we need to redefine success for our kids,” but the definition seemed to be related to helping children become creative human beings. I celebrate and enjoy creativity, but it is not my end goal personally nor the end goal I hope that my kids aim for.
I have an entire chapter on redefining success in my book Not So Fast, and it doesn’t conclude with them being creative human beings or problem-solvers. 🙂
I guess we’ll have to see the film itself to get some context for those sound bytes. I do hope that it might provide some perspective for those who are putting tremendous pressure on their kids to the point of causing anxiety and depression.
Here I stand tonight at what could be a critical point as a parent and ready to write a blog post on the importance of having purpose in life. When you have poured into your children and hoped and helped them to get a college education, it can be a great adjustment to discover that this may not be their purpose in life. Knowing what God’s purpose is for our lives is of ultimate importance but that may still require relinquishing our dreams. And that is hard to do.
Thank you for this post and enlightenment at a time when the Lord could be speaking to me on this subject.
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Mostly agreed. We have homeschooled in large part to avoid this madness. Although I am, neither of my older children are college graduates (one is a bicycle messenger and the other a musician) and my youngest (equestrian) doesn’t seem inclined towards college either. My only concern is that even the trailer has many of the education buzzphrases: “deep learning,” “conceptual thinking,” “redefine success,” “critical thinking,” “problem solver,” “creative human being,” that I think are part of the cause of the race to nowhere. We do need scientists and accountants and engineers as well as artists and musicians. We need to value all of the different sorts of people and personalities and gifts and talents that God has given. Some of those are honed by competition and crazed schedules and anti-socialism and some are not.
I like hearing about your kids and what they have landed on in life, Kim, and I appreciate your thoughts on the trailer. After watching it, my first thought was that the film is obviously not coming from a Christian perspective. So I naturally won’t agree with everything it has to say. Like you, I heard a voice on the trailer saying “we need to redefine success for our kids,” but the definition seemed to be related to helping children become creative human beings. I celebrate and enjoy creativity, but it is not my end goal personally nor the end goal I hope that my kids aim for.
I have an entire chapter on redefining success in my book Not So Fast, and it doesn’t conclude with them being creative human beings or problem-solvers. 🙂
I guess we’ll have to see the film itself to get some context for those sound bytes. I do hope that it might provide some perspective for those who are putting tremendous pressure on their kids to the point of causing anxiety and depression.
Here I stand tonight at what could be a critical point as a parent and ready to write a blog post on the importance of having purpose in life. When you have poured into your children and hoped and helped them to get a college education, it can be a great adjustment to discover that this may not be their purpose in life. Knowing what God’s purpose is for our lives is of ultimate importance but that may still require relinquishing our dreams. And that is hard to do.
Thank you for this post and enlightenment at a time when the Lord could be speaking to me on this subject.
Blessings,
Janis