The fall term is in full swing now at the UW and at campuses across the country. Students are settling in to the rituals of academia; classes and labs, homework and exams, counterbalanced (or in some cases outweighed) by ball games and the high-tech social life of a new-millennium collegian.
….before I start to sound like a hypocrite, let me make it clear that I believe with all of my being that education is a foremost key to success. It just isn’t the only one.
That said, at what point does education hinder rather than enhance our ability to function in the work world?
(Sarah Botham is the owner of Botham, ink. and a senior lecturer in the UW Department of Life Sciences Communication.)