Academic Lock Step Response
“The Academic Lock Step” Response
This short article within the Honors Student Handbook provides profound information about honors programs at colleges and particular individuals excelling well above the average when it comes to learning in college. Students are essentially free when they begin college life. They are free to make their own decisions about their life and take responsibility for themselves when it comes to making decisions about their future. But sadly colleges have become too standardized for students, thus taking away from their individuality and freedom to make decisions by providing the students with requirements and pre-requisites that they need to fulfill to graduate with a specific degree. Pages 11-13 make clear that these colleges need to make a change and understand that not everyone is the same, and that not everyone is average in regards to how they learn and understand concepts that are taught to them. Colleges should not only record and base the majority of their results on quantitative data, but rather on qualitative data to illuminate certain characteristics within students that are hidden when grades are all that matter. The idea of college is becoming one of conformity rather than one of individuality, which it should be. The problem in this is being that the more intellectual students are held back due to the lack of accelerated courses because colleges make their main focus to appealing towards the average rather than the individual. Now the colleges are beginning to realize the effectiveness of appealing to the individual by taking steps towards variety instead uniformity.
This short article within the Honors Student Handbook provides profound information about honors programs at colleges and particular individuals excelling well above the average when it comes to learning in college. Students are essentially free when they begin college life. They are free to make their own decisions about their life and take responsibility for themselves when it comes to making decisions about their future. But sadly colleges have become too standardized for students, thus taking away from their individuality and freedom to make decisions by providing the students with requirements and pre-requisites that they need to fulfill to graduate with a specific degree. Pages 11-13 make clear that these colleges need to make a change and understand that not everyone is the same, and that not everyone is average in regards to how they learn and understand concepts that are taught to them. Colleges should not only record and base the majority of their results on quantitative data, but rather on qualitative data to illuminate certain characteristics within students that are hidden when grades are all that matter. The idea of college is becoming one of conformity rather than one of individuality, which it should be. The problem in this is being that the more intellectual students are held back due to the lack of accelerated courses because colleges make their main focus to appealing towards the average rather than the individual. Now the colleges are beginning to realize the effectiveness of appealing to the individual by taking steps towards variety instead uniformity.