h/t Sean for the link.

“College works for many, many students — just ask your physician! But the truth is that students are not one size-fits-all. College is not the predetermined path from cradle to career that we think it is. We coddle and coerce, we tutor and talk, we insist on the square peg fitting snugly in the round hole.”

Shop is Not a Four-Letter Word | Edutopia

I’ve been living with this for the last twenty years. It’s not so bad in these waters as long as you don’t stop swimming. Ever.

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Freelancing: the best and worst of it: “the brain can apparently only fully focus on something for 90 minutes before it needs a change. In the office you have to constantly fight this, and as Breslin sagely points out: ‘That’s not maximising productivity.’ When you’re working unsupervised you start to develop a more natural pattern, and once that’s done it’s really hard to go back….

…Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the amount of work and the fact that it’s all down to me. Then I remember that I am in charge of this operation and I call the shots. This makes it a lot easier to do the boring stuff too, as it’s another building block for the big picture. The element of choice makes all the difference.”

It’s always good to read the view from someone who has been on the other side.

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