Albie Wrote:I would go back and change my schooling. ...
Interesting you say that. The one thing I would change if I could was my choice to go to college. I went to an experimental public high school and graduated in 1966. I wanted to go to a fine-arts school, either Pratt or The Art Institute of Chicago. My parents (who would be footing a lot of the bill) however, would have none of that. So the compromise was to go to The Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology. IOW, not a fine-arts but applied arts/design school. I agreed to this because I was aware (as so many were not) that the
ID-IIT was
what had become of
the Bauhaus as the Nazis took over Germany. So, it was a compromise I went along with.
HOWEVER… while I was in high school I was "recruited" by
New College of Florida. It was a brand new school with very few students and was experimenting with higher education. I did go scope out the campus in Sarasota -- which was quite wonderful, actually… I loved it. BUT… it was only a liberal arts, NOT an art school, not even a design school. For sure I could be involved in studio arts there -- but only in a very limited and mostly independent study way.
In hind-sight I *regret* not having attended New School because by my second year of school at ID-IIT, I was *well* aware that my experimental high school education had "ruined" me for *traditional* college curricula. In fact, I dropped out of IT-IID and didn't go back to school again for several years and THEN was enrolled in another experimental program, "
The University Without Walls," here in Berkeley, (at the time, an extension of
Antioch College). It was a completely independent study program.
Anyway… Yeah, for sure, my life would be different had I gone to New College from the get-go -- and its not like I regret having gone the route I have -- but I'm damned curious to know in what WAY my life would have been different.
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