10 • October 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. By Anne C. Cowden, PhD, Emeritus Professor


Santa Rosa, Ca.


~ My mother said I must


always be in- tolerant of ig- norance


but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than col- lege professors. Dr. Maya An- gelou, Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, fi lm producer, televi- sion producer, playwright, fi lm director, author, actress, pro- fessor (1928-2014).


Whether you decide to go to


college or not is a diffi cult de- cision in our age. Once hardly anyone could go or was expect- ed to go. It was an elite choice.


FALL GUIDE Sonoma County So You Want to Go to College or Not? Part 1


After World War II more men started to go to college on the GI Bill and into newly grow- ing corporate America. In the 1960s with the Civil Rights Act, Title 7, more opportunities were available due to the prohi- bition of discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex or national ori- gin. Colleges grew. Today there are at least 2700 schools of higher education in the U.S.


Speed forward to 2015 and our world of work is a very differ- ent place. The Industrial Age within which colleges grew and refl ected has mainly evap- orated with the loss of millions of jobs. Enter the Information Age of the Internet, computers, cell phones and a host of other ways of working and doing


business. The skills developed for the prior Age do not usually translate well into this newer Age. A third age is upon us as we move from an economy and a society constructed on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and society built on the inventive, em- pathic, big picture aptitudes of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age (Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brain- ers Will Rule the


Future, 2006).


In sync with this new Age is the reality that there are many types of intelligence as noted by Howard Gardner in Multiple Intelligences, 1993). Gardner argues that if you are good at language and logic (linguistic,


logical-mathematic/science), you will probably do well on the SAT, a test required by most colleges. He goes on to further argue that once you leave col- lege, doing well will probably depend on how well you use the other intelligences you have: spatial, music, body—kines- thetic, interpersonal, intraper- sonal. His point is that there are a plurality of intelligence pro- fi les. Our society and hence, our higher educational system has prioritized


linguistic and


logical-mathematic/science in- telligence and placed them on a fi gurative pedestal. He believes we need to develop all types of intelligence within people. If Pink is correct that the Con- ceptual Age is upon us, those of you with these often ignored or discounted intelligences will be in great demand. A question to ask in relation- ship to whether college or no


college is ‘do colleges provide the knowledge and skills you can use in your pursuit of a ca- reer/job?’ ‘Do they tap into all of your intelligences or at least, the primary ones you need for the job or career you want?’ The second question is ‘do you want to spend four or more years going to college with its increasing price tag?’ The an- swer to these questions will de- pend on what it is you wish to do. If you want to be a medical doctor, you must attend many years of college. If you want to be a web designer, you do not need a college degree, although maybe some community col- lege. However, you should be artistically and technologically inclined.


Part 2: CHOICES YOU MAKE So You Want to go to College or Not. See it in the November 2015 issue of Upbeat Times!


Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a


soulmate. Robert Brault


Healing Readings & Astrology


Yerevan


Clairvoyant reader, life coach, flower essence practitioner.


707-775-5600 www.ReadingsByYerevan.com 10 • October 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln


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