I came across the following quote in an opinion piece, Daring to Do What You Love, written by Ms. Mcleod:
"In today’s high stakes test environment, I’m amazed at how little time schools are allowed to devote toward self-discovery. It’s all about being good at everything and how well you do on the test.
Yet a lack of true self-knowledge is why so many people slog along in the wrong careers for decades. Personally, I think schools would be better off giving a Myers Briggs or similar personality test to the kids before they start asking them to chart out their entire lives"
This reminded me of what I am learning in my entry interviews. A common theme that has emerged is that Park has historically provided students both the freedom and the support to, in the words of one respondent, "discover who I am meant to be," and the self-confidence to then become that person. Heady stuff.
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