I agree with you completely – especially in contexts that prevent more hands-on and experiential opportunities. However, I think that providing students with actual hands-on opportunities ON the farm will also prove to be a crucially important part of their education. Especially with the changing demographics of agricultural students (i.e. coming from non-rural non-agricultural backgrounds), it is crucially important that those types of experiences be provided, and not assumed.

Very interesting post Rafic, I like the point you made about people having an implicit bias. This is true for everybody regardless ethnicity or gender, and I think it is healthy to think about the reasons that explain why we have a bias towards a particular action, gender or ethnicity, are such reasons justified or not?, and what are the actions that we should do to be more neutral. For instance, we might have different thoughts about academic performance of people from different ethnicities, and that is ok; however, is any of such thoughts creating a gap between us and such group?.

I would not rely much in the potential contributions gained when university administrators organize activities to foster multi-cultural integration. I think self-reflection could give better results.

My biggest surprise? They’ve labeled Virginia Tech as “city.” I think they may need to find a dictionary.

Overall, I do think this is a good tool, particularly the information about average loans and percentage of students repaying their loans, since that’s not information readily available from most schools. I’m curious if this may spur a change from some schools who come off looking horrible, like those with much higher than average costs, but lower than average earnings.

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While I do agree with these programs to some degree, I think it’s a dangerous path for the government to decide which professions are worth rewarding. Students need to do their homework on the mean income and unemployment rates of their chosen profession and make good decisions to not go into debt they can’t pay off. What about “caring” professions that don’t require a college degree? Should the people who work in retirement homes or preschools have their loans forgiven for degrees they didn’t need for their profession?

I really like your post! I sure think this is a common question for all of us why we need education?
Each educator I believe has at least the responsibility to make that clear to his/her students that what he/she is teaching and why that is important. How it will impact society and the general life? That also motivates students to be connected to what they are learning in the class.

I think that faculties can placed some rules for their classes, but they should be logical.
It is acceptable to mention some rules in syllabus, but they cannot restrict the students to talk freely. I believe that drinking and eating in class are a little impolite , so the professors can ask students to avoid these tasks. But, it is not logical to expect that the students should not use some words!!

Thank you for your post. I liked your post and I agree with what you said. Students should be taught how to learn and look for the truth, not just learn facts that they might forget later. They should be stimulated to get creative and innovative because they’re excited about the material and they love it, not because there is an exam that they should pass.

Thank you for your post. I like the point that you raised and I understand what you’re feeling. I think part of the problem is that students are not trained in a problem-based leaning way to teach them how to solve any problem that faces them, instead of just throwing facts at them.

Thank you for your post. I liked your post and I agree with what you said. People should definitely think about why they are going to college (and grad school) instead of stopping and starting a business, which might end up making them more money. It all depend on their view of life and what their long term goals are.