CLASSES & JOBS

After graduating from high school, some choose to go on to college to study academics. Several types of programs and degrees are offered to cater to the person’s desires. Opportunities range from trade schools and 2-year programs to 4-year programs resulting in Bachelor’s degrees. Once a person knows what kind of degree or experiential education they want to get, they pick a specific major at an institution that suits them. When finished with the requirements of the major, the person graduates from college and then can choose to enter the workforce in their chosen career, or continue their schooling by entering a Masters or Doctoral program in their field of study.

Those who do hold degrees from colleges or universities are more likely to earn a better living than people with high school diplomas. Higher-level learning also opens up opportunities such as internships, career advising and study abroad experiences that secondary level institutions do not. Furthermore, many careers and positions now require a degree of some form to be eligible to apply.

After graduating college or after being in the workforce for some time, many adults choose to continue learning through adult education programs. These programs are set up to help adults continue to grow academically after their college years or the start their academic pursuance for the first time. Many attend adult education classes to get their General Educational Development (GED) if they didn’t graduate high school and desire to get that certification.

Adult education programs range from academic subject matter to teaching trade skills and are usually offered at a variety of times to accommodate the schedules and lifestyles of working adults. Types of classes depend on the institutions offering them and class fees vary as well. They are offered at both high schools and colleges. If interested in such programs, contact the nearest academic establishment or research online to see what is offered in your area.

Education takes many forms and is derived from many different mediums. There is academic education, where the student acquires knowledge based from books, teachers, lectures and scholarly applications. Academic education ranges from primary schools to secondary schooling to, often, college or university level degree pursuance. When being educated in the public sector, ones schooling is often subsidized by the state and federal governments until they reach college, where government funding is still present, but decreased.

In addition to academic education, experiential education is also a form of learning. This entails learning from opportunities and making judgments based on lessons learned from previous experiences. One learns this way by talking to people, internships, traveling and self-motivated learning. This kind of education is not the kind you get quizzed on, rather, it is the kind that produces multi-faceted individuals and diversity in peoples approaches to life’s challenges.

In middle school my friends used to joke that I thought they all smelled bad. They said this because one year I gave pretty much all my friends soap for gifts. I got all the soaps from a bath and body store, which was fun to shop at and had everything I needed. I didn’t really mean to do it, I just kept finding really fun types of soap for different people.

At this bath and body store, there was confetti soap, soap crayons for drawing on the shower, soap that smelled good, etc. It became a running joke and still to this day whenever I see any type of soap that different or interesting I send it to a friend from middle school. It’s fun to try different kinds of soap and body wash because some smell amazing, some wake you up, and some calm you down. It’s a simple thing that we use every day, but it can be made a bit more fun with some variation.

When I was in first grade, my teacher gave us the interesting assignment to find everyone in our class’ home phone number in the phone book. It sounds like a weird assignment now, but it really did have multiple purposes. It taught us to learn how to use directories, which is an important part of business, education and socializing ourselves. It also taught us many other things as well.

First, we had all recently learned to read, so it was good practice reading. Second, our teacher wanted to make a class directory for his parents. It also gave us the opportunity to read names of people and street names, which many times are not spelled phonetically. It was an interesting lesson. The next day we all talked about interesting things that we found in the phone book. It was amazing how many kids found things that they though were interesting in the simple directory of phone numbers and addresses. We all noticed that there were a lot of Browns, which made it incredibly difficult to find Kevin Brown’s phone number. We also learned that Riley and Emma lived on the same street. It’s a bit surprising that I remember this certain activity, but it proves that it was fun and interesting!