Reading the articles and making my other assignment for this week, besides feeling overwhelmed by all the problems the education systems have, I’ve been trying to focus on the value and advantages that having a degree provides, and how could these be provided in some other way. I’m interested in which university features are overrated and which are underrated (for example, I haven’t thought of the lack of critical thinking skills and their development in online courses (and I hope that’s not because of a lack of critical thinking in my own side, having an university degree)). I’m convinced that there are/can be more ways of people to develop as integral beings.
And maybe I get more overwhelmed when, as I mentioned in the first day, I start to think not only about the purpose of [higher] education but about the purpose of all our lives. The system we are stuck in was generated by the decisions of many people, what decisions have to be made in order to steer it toward a better outcome for all of us?
I must add that I’ve been really liking asking all these questions about my own experience and situation here at NYU…