Square peg

Whenever you try to fit the square peg in the round hole, two things are certain. The peg will be damaged and so will the hole. Each day I try to do just that; fit the square peg in the round hole.

Why am I trying to force students into a path that neither fits their goals or meets their needs?Has anyone ever asked a student if they want to go to college? Those who do aren't asking with any sense of sincerity. They are completing the rhetorical process that so often accompanies our profession.

Why is college seen as the ends to every means?

When the workforce was dominated by industrial jobs, a college education was afforded to only the elite few. As time and demand changed, we have also fought to reform education. The result of reform and change has devastated education.