Limitations on Application
of Knowledge
In this category, industry far out weighs the school
system. When you become a teacher, you almost immediately wave the
right to do work of your own. An approved curriculum must be started
and you have to follow this curriculum. It can become a repetitive
and boring life when you do the same thing every year, and almost every
day for that matter. However, industry allows for the flexibility
to pursue you're own areas of industry. One can do research in their
applied field. It is almost impossible to do research in the school
system. With most jobs in industry, a person can come home after
a hard day's work and seperate from their job to contemplate things.
Teachers must constantly grade assignments and bring home work to keep
up. Because teachers have to follow a curriculum there isn't as much
of an opportunity to pursue fields that they have interest in. Classes
taken in college will soon be forgotten once one succumbs to the role of
teach general chemistry, biology, or physics to students. The complex
concepts and theories one explored and devoted themselves to in college
will be replaced by general thoughts and simple concepts that are taught
to children today. Once again, there is so much more intellectual
growth that can be found in industry leaving little desire for one to pursue
a life of teaching.
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