edu-musing

around 4am. just woke up from a harry potter-like dream in which i broke a witch's sword and she cursed me until i almost threw up in-dream. it was some kind of a familial thing.

now that i'm awake, i'm pondering things like vocational training in high schools that provides students with an introduction to various trades and professions entirely external to the core experience that revolves around education; in part to show the students first-hand just how much more on-top of things adults aren't and the value of some of their education in context. waiting for superman might have something to do with that being on my mind; it's a very poignant documentary.

somehow that musing returned me to my tenth and eleventh-grade computer labs, early mornings playing quake or duke nukem on a sixteen-player lan; krybabie and i (and one or two others) used to completely dominate the maps. contrast that with my twelfth-grade introduction to FPS-induced motion sickness with unreal... although i was always pretty good at counterstrike.