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kingtycoon) wrote2015-08-27 02:44 pm
kingtycoon) wrote2015-08-27 02:44 pm
Train in Vain
Boring story made somewhat interesting - my job agreed to go with the new software suite & I've spent the last year liaising with the dev team. We're about 30 days out of go-live & it's looking like a near thing, but still very attainable - just not easily so. But now that I know it & have everyone in it - it's back to writing manuals & doing training sessions - which was once my main job task. Now it is again and I'm pleased about it - it's good being professorial - and it was cold today so it's tweed jackets all around (well, for me anyhow - hoodies all around I guess, but I have a few tweed jackets so...)
There's classroom frisson & debate - over commonplace, pedestrian nonsense - but still - people have opinions and are invested in the process.
I'm reminded of my poor kiddo who's going to 7th grade next week, and of my own benighted, and fortunately brief time as an instructor in school. To me, it's the lack of worthwhile reward. School relies almost totally on you having that intrinsic motivation to care about school & without it there's precious little to recommend hard work or even a casual studiousness. To me- it's because they don't pay you. Always with me it falls to that - pay them. That's the solution to the made up problems of the american education system, pay the students.
It's remarkable how much even the most unmotivated & uninterested (me for instance) person can learn & perform with the right number behind a dollar sign.
There's classroom frisson & debate - over commonplace, pedestrian nonsense - but still - people have opinions and are invested in the process.
I'm reminded of my poor kiddo who's going to 7th grade next week, and of my own benighted, and fortunately brief time as an instructor in school. To me, it's the lack of worthwhile reward. School relies almost totally on you having that intrinsic motivation to care about school & without it there's precious little to recommend hard work or even a casual studiousness. To me- it's because they don't pay you. Always with me it falls to that - pay them. That's the solution to the made up problems of the american education system, pay the students.
It's remarkable how much even the most unmotivated & uninterested (me for instance) person can learn & perform with the right number behind a dollar sign.