A Curmudgeon’s Complaint

• Main Author: Wilf Innerd
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brock University 2010-05-01
• Series: Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice
• Online Access: http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/46

The student arrives a few minutes early. She is a little out of breath, as it has been quite a dash across town in heavy traffic from school. But she has made it for 4:30 and has a moment or two to collect her thoughts before going in to see her advisor. She has completed the requisite eight courses that are required before she starts on her major paper, including one course on research methods and one on educational statistics. She has an A- average and is quietly confident that she can do what is needed and proceed next June to graduate with an M.Ed. degree. She is the first member of her family to have earned any kind of university degree, and this additional qualification will be greeted with a lot of respect, even awe, by her relatives. All she ever wanted to be was a good primary teacher, and she is that, but the M.Ed. will be the icing on the cake.