Tech Underground assist to MetWest Highschool

Today I helped create an internship opportunity for a MetWest highschool student by making a connection with a TU member’s client.

Hells.  Yes.

MetWest is this incredible alternative school in Oakland that is pioneering a model of internship-based education that promotes experiential learning as a top priority.  This is so right on, and I speak from experience.  Reflecting on my own 20 something years of education, including advanced learning at an ivy-league school, I can’t memorially recuperate any of the same kinds of excitement, passion, inspiration, and straight up learning I’ve experienced after being launched into “working world” after college.  Perhaps it’s just my personality, but I doubt I’m alone in reconsidering a history of preparatory education as alienating, impractical, and generally delusory – notwithstanding the Marxist critique that it creates compliant capitalists for a consumption-based economy.   While I’m grateful for the education I received, and wouldn’t be where I am today without it, I do feel a sense of loss at not having the courage, will, and/or perspective to follow some of my early interests into the world beyond the confines of school.

Ask me about a fund-raiser for MetWest coming up March 18th. A great chance to give to a great project.

This entry was written by ross, posted on March 2, 2009 at 3:45 pm, filed under Blog. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.