This Pathway program is amazing, can I just start by saying this?! I never knew I was going to gain such personal insight, I didn't know it was meant to be a spiritual as well as educational journey. Some things I learned this week really solidified the true purpose of this Pathway program. In order for us to change and become the future academic successes or just the productive, positive, contributing people we hope to be, we have to recognize just who we are. A child of God. Men are that they might have joy 2 Nephi 2:28. Who knew that learning would enrich my life and give me great joy? I'm the girl who said she would rather poke herself in the eye than go back to school, I am so glad the spirit "pushed" me into this very classroom.
I have decided late in my Pathway journey to start this blog. After this weeks speakers and lessons I realized it wasn't too late and I need to record and share this awesome experience. Last week was week 3 and I am going to share some of the experiences I have had so far. The first few weeks were eye openers for me because I didn't know Christ would be the center of all this learning I was going to experience. I had no idea that I might need to work on myself in order to be a better learner. While all the learning is centered in Christ it's also bringing some basic skills into my life, very needed skills. The program makes sure we have basic note taking and study skills, in case you missed that info. somewhere in surviving your life. I certainly have gained much insight and realized that I needed to augment some of my learning and study skills.
Boy, the Lord and the leaders know exactly what they are doing! How many of us have children? Have we said to ourselves, there was never a manual to show me how to do this. It's all trial and error and hopefully the spirit guiding us in our parenting. But what if there really is a way to learn better and understand better. The Pathway program starts right there, assuming we never had that manual on how to be a good student. It makes the correct assumption, at least for me, that I might need specific skills and tips to begin this journey. So the first few weeks were all about providing some tools to help this learning process. They are all about reminding us of who we are, why we are here, how can we get where we want to go. Then lets put us into a Gathering every Thursday with a group of like minded individuals and we have total inspiration as a result.
There are 2 courses in this program, one is a religion/institute course and the others is a general studies course. Each week we have assignments for each course and many hours of study time is required. To whom much is given, much is required D&C 82:3. The first few weeks are the hardest, you have to navigate the computer and many of the students in my class were first timers on a computer, so there's a challenge from the get go. You have to work really hard to prove you want this. The price is so reasonable so that's not the real challenge for most of us. The real challenge is the time commitment, and we are reminded and given a test on the honor code. Just in case the lines have gotten a little blurry in life, those lines are straitened out and cleaned up to a very clear black and white. We know exactly what is expected of us all. Shall we run for the hills and take the easy way back to our comfort zones? I am so proud to say that only 2 people of our original 30ish students have dropped out, one never even showed up. I have no doubt the Lord will keep nudging them right on back to another class at another time.
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