Black male teachers are hard to find

Well, never thought I would see the day when I would agree with you about anything, but today must be the day. Good post.

 

Much obliged

 

I have a friend that graduated with a masters degree in social work from a houston university. He said for a while the toilet paper in the dept bathrooms read:
I have a masters in SW/PSYCH. Would you like fries with that?

What mattered in terms of education in the sixty and seventies doesn't really apply anymore in terms of todays priority or changing work scape. Education is still important but for vastly different reasons. IMO, at least.

I think nowadays you have to make education (higher) important to you on a more personal level and then channel that into what you do in the world. Professions that make big bucks are often laughed at (doctors? lawyers) and don't hold the same weight in terms of respect. Other professions that might lead to living a comfortable life have all but been obliterated by the nations financial destructions. People who had high level degrees with well paying jobs now clean bathrooms and flip burgers. Just because you have a masters or a Phd as opposed to a four or two year degree or no degree at all does not guarentee you will live better than those that don't.

 

Don't dismiss a good degree. I agree that it might not guarantee security like it once did but its still your best shot. I know plenty of people with advanced degrees with great 6 figure jobs. It just depends on what you go to school for. No more cake majors like english and psych you actually have to use critical thinking and application now. There is still a population of 300 million people to be served lands rich with raw material and hard working people. We may be down but far from out my friend.

 

Oh, I don't dismiss them. I just don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Which is looking like it might never happen. So....yeah.

I know you can make money with good degrees. But I think people tend to be in denial about how to apply the over all changes to our world at large. We still educatate or primary level students in a fashion that doesn't work and equates to taxpayer funded "baby sitting". And even though there has been study after study to prove that their are other more effective ways of educating children that lead to better levels of success...our broke ass system STILL holds on to the shit that doesn't work and gets rid of the shit that does..like music classes.

That's all..

 

I have to agree. People are far too resistant to change. We'll take what's familiar over what works every time. We're very emotional.

What does music class actually help with? Music was cool individually but as a class I didn't get much out of it. Choir was a different story all together.

I'm curious what are you interested in?

 

They have done study after study that shows that music training...especially piano helps develop the part of the brain that facilitate higher level processing and boost math and science comprehension. Funny, cuz I took piano as a child and I suck at math. Science anyday tho. I LOVE science. Especially physics. Steven Hawking is so sexy. Don't even ask me to explain how I can't do math but can comprehend physics. I can't. Furthermore, I never said I made any kind of sense to begin with.

I've wanted to be a Midwive since I was 16....but not a lay midwife...a CNM..that takes a masters in Nursing or higher..and that's mostly because they want to make sure that the CNM can do the admin part of it...not just the getting the baby part out.

But I also want to become a Dialectical Behavioral Therapist. We are sorely lacking here on the Big Island. You can't get certified therapy here, only in Oahu..so there is a niche. But that again...takes a masters or higher...Phd if you really want to have standing in the field. So I don't know if I'm willing to spend so much time getting so much education. I really am the type of person that likes to dispense with the stuff I don't need and just get to the shit that makes or breaks it.

 

Pick what you want to really do and do it? What else r u doing with your time?

 

fixing macs...or will be...when I retake the exam next month and actually pass it this time.