Dooley Noted: 5/22/2014
I can’t teach a single seminar without a student stating these words:
“Why didn’t I learn about this in school?!”
You should see their faces. They are disgusted with their education and express feeling jilted.
I also teach in professional programs during their education.
Let me state this fact: the vast majority of students care more about what will appear on the exam and not how it applies in practice. It’s student nature.
I’m not pointing fingers, because I definitely cared way more about my grades than my clinical proficiency at the start of my education.
So, be satisfied with your past education. Without it, you would not be at this point of enlightenment.
And if someone made you think you learned everything you needed to know in school, then welcome to the rude awakening.
I spend around $20,000 a year on continuing education, even though I am only required by law to take 12 hours a year. This does not include incessant reading.
I teach for six schools because I want to put myself in situations where my knowledge is tested.
I teach for a seminar series around 15 times per year, so I am constantly challenged and intrigued by students new to material I use daily.
I’m not mad that I didn’t learn everything I needed in my 10 trimesters in chiropractic school or my additional 3 years in my master’s program.
Learning, like everything else, is an evolution. Those student loan payments are the mortgage I pay to get the opportunity to learn even more – and apply it.
You can take that frustration in your education’s shortcomings and use it as fuel.
Learn all the old things even better and apply them.
Learn the new things and apply them, also.
Or, gripe.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley