As was common at the time...

As was common at the time, as I was registering for high school, the guidance counselor asked me and my mother whether or not it was intended that I would go to college. With my mother insisting Yes, I was placed on the college prep track and rarely saw some of my friends again, that were "destined" for the trades. They took one set of classes, those being wood shop and auto mechanics, while I and other college bound freshmen were placed on a completely different track. And so it went. While schooling might help bring us together, each seeing value in each other, it, instead set us apart.

We live in a divided nation in which children mature at various paces and some are sequestered from the use of their hands in the exploration of the world while being told that they are the best and  brightest, set apart for learning more advanced and abstract things, and while some erroneously are informed by their placement that they'll never measure up or be capable of more advanced thought. Little could be further from the truth.

I repeat. Not all mature to the same things at the same time. All need to be afforded the opportunity to grow at their own pace. And all schooling should be hands-on, and thereby enriched.

Make, fix and create...