5 myths about life, which is taught in high schools

Let's be honest: apart from a few good friends, a number of interesting contacts, student parties and the ability to make cribs and take notes the national education system do not It gives. You spend years in college 4-5-6 - and go out with a diploma in one hand and a host bag of illusions and unrealistic expectations - in the other. Lucky if you have by the end of a year or two as there is work (otherwise you will face unrealistically high competition in the labor market and inability to settle into a more or less decent place, unless you go to conquer the city of one million or capital of his / foreign country). A faculty of our universities of habit "hammered" into the minds of students a bunch of theory that 90% never nowhere to be applied + also "supply" 5 of harmful myths that have nothing to do with reality.

"Most pupils achieve better results": This myth works more or less, until it comes to assessing your zachetke. Behind the walls of universities, he does not mean anything. You know, where there were 4 out of 5 of the best students of our course in a year or two after the release of the magistracy? That's right - without work. Of these 5 people only 1 (if I'm not mistaken) is currently working on a specialty. No correlation between the "five" (or "100 points", as was the case with our high school) and successful in life outside the "alma mater" does not exist. There is only a connection between the persistence, the ability to use the benefit of themselves, even a disadvantageous situation and the circumstances of life - but not between life and your "record book".

"The longer a person works - the more his experience and competence": this myth built the whole bureaucratic system in the CIS + almost all of our education system. Wherever you go, you will always encounter "Aunt 40-50", which is no longer the first five years sits a chair, unable in 2013 was to use a computer - but at the same time considered to be "a valuable employee" or "experienced teacher", because it is already 15-20 years here working. At the same time, I (and I think you, too) there are at least a dozen friends and acquaintances, who in his years 20-25-28 have the skills, knowledge and ideas, every 5 larger than those of the "aunts" in its 60 (and many of them have worked for 5 years in several large companies, agencies and start-ups, gain experience and knowledge for its 15 years' of sitting "in the chair did not receive any" experienced "an official and teacher and theoretician). You still want to learn knowledge from the people who procrastinate same textbook 10 years?

"All skills can be evaluated and measured": myth, it works well in high school, where all "on merit" can be arranged in the assessment record book. And then "graduate" should be taught 2 years of real (not theoretical) accounting. Skills in areas such as design, interface design, copywriting, online marketing in general is difficult to measure (because no serious domestic university prepares web designers and copywriters, and a man with two projects in the portfolio for 5 years not identical in skills for those who have 2 years - 25 projects).

"There are recognized authorities, and this should be accepted": favorite dogma of teachers and heads of "old school". Extends this myth has its roots in a time when "the party was more visible" and the works of politicians and economists, 80-year-old limitations were irrefutable source of theory and practice for all sorts of activities, from science and medicine to art and literature. Now in any field (except that the theoretical and quantum physics) revision of "dogma" and concepts occurs on average every 4-5 years. Head on his shoulders, and the ability to analyze and study - is much more important than the unbending belief that "everything said in granite is cast."

"You have to follow the rules": If this myth was true, then there is no Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Bob Dylan, and the Klitschko brothers Tiger Woods would not be. The absence of rules does not mean that it is necessary to cross the street at a red light, eat with your hands instead of a fork and knife and foul language in public places. The absence of rules means that there is no universal recipe or habitual vital schemes to be followed, that all around were happy, and you will "fit" into the scheme of "kindergarten-school-institute-job-marriage-children-apartment in the mortgage-grandchildren-retirement-pension-death." Actually, and education in high school, we do not get to follow the rules and to improve their knowledge in a particular niche and create something new, which is contrary to the old scheme of commodity-monetary, socio-cultural and technological relations in society. That's only in domestic universities somehow forgot about this nuance.

I'm sure of almost 100% that you have their "myths", which you can supplement this list. Do not hesitate: the sooner you know, leaving the walls of the university, what has deceived you, the easier it is to say goodbye to the illusion and achieve real, rather than theoretical progress.