Posted on 08/01/2016 8:49:02 AM PDT by servo1969
Here's what I was told during my freshman orientation at Haverford College: Ask for help when you need it. Speak up when you feel uncomfortable. Place your own well being above all other concerns.
In short, the school was ready to protect me from any personal slights or hurt feelings I might suffer. What counted as a personal slight or similar offense was up to me to define.
This surprised me.
It surprised me because at McDonald's, where I worked before I started school, acting in this way would have probably cost me my job, a job I needed in order to go to college.
The most important thing at McDonald's was not how I felt but how my customers felt. It was my job and the job of everyone working there to make others - namely, the customers - happy.
I worked at the front counter. That meant that if there was a problem with an order, I had to deal with it.
The issues weren't complicated. It was usually something like a missing piece of cheese from a McDouble, or whipped cream on a milkshake when they hadn't wanted any. Whatever it was, I had to listen patiently and mentally take notes so that I could report the relevant details to someone who could actually correct the problem.
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Yeah, my observation, too.
I mean that there is a whole school of thought that college is what every kid should go to, even if they don’t know why, and I’ve seen that cause people to waste a lot of time and money.
I do not see how anyone could not agree with you. The University setting has become a playground. That is not to say in past times that they were monstaries. However, the majority have no idea why they are there other than, “it is what you do.” Are these instances more widely reported now than in the past? Do kids lack the sense making ability to avoid these situations?
Did greater minds develop because of lesser freedoms? Do our freedoms encourage mental laziness?
Times change. People don’t.
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Freedom is as much an attitude as it is a condition.
Perhaps the core Principle of Ageless Conservatism is that Man is governed by a moral order anchored by the Natural Law; a concept virtually extinct in our modern era.
The wise Greeks and Romans understood this, giving their creative impulse a rule which enhanced rather than restricted their creativity. We, bloated w/conceit, hubris and pretension, do not. As a consequence w/o boundaries we are lost; our so called “Art” being mute testament to that reality.
Following the massive hangover of the Great War, Auden described the interwar years as a “dark, forbidding and very low period”; an apt descriptive of our present time.
God bless you NorthstarMom. My son started as a waiter, now he is a sommalier at a high end restaurant making big bucks. Like his brothers, he didn’t care for college, and all three sons are doing extremely well—the other two are in real estate and sales...and... not college brainwashed.
Glad to hear of your children’s non-college success stories. My oldest has his heart set on law enforcement, we will see if college turns him from his strong conservatism. The next son wants to learn a trade, thankfully.
Food service kind of gets in your blood-I could have skipped college had I known where I would be at 42. Oh well, at least I experienced working in my chosen field and know for certain that no career is more important than being home with my children.
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