This week in our group meetings and also brought up in class, was the discussion as to if we should let students "specialize" in something more than we do now. So many students get to college and even graduate, still not knowing that they want to 'do' with the rest of their lives. Would giving students more chances to dip their feet into different areas before college, lead students down a path suited for them? I feel it would be really helpful if schools would build in time for job shadowing or somehow getting the students to explore professions. I have never really looked into other occupations besides teaching; who's to say something else would have clicked had I had the chance to have been exposed to different fields?
My group in class talked about how Switzerland has a built in time where students go to a junior college and specialize in something, then go to college and major in it if they like it. The junior college is required, and a time built in to explore different fields.
I'm not really sure how or where schools would find the time to do this, but I think it would be a very helpful thing to preventing so much daddling once college arrives.
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Agreed about wasting time in college! And you're right, in the current education system, there would not be time for things like internships and exploration of fields other than "the basics" of reading, math, science, and social studies. I think it's time to drastically change our system of schooling to accommodate much more exploratory learning.
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