What was the point of the episode "Things Change?"
I thought Shawn was going to be the photographers assistant, Topanga off to Yale, Mr. Feeny to retire? How did they all end up together for 2 more years?
shareThat if you don't go to college, you're throwing your whole life away. You have to stay with your childhood friends no matter what. I love this show but hated how preachy it was about education and going to college. I'm sorry but it's not the most important thing in life. Some people don't even get to live that long. Sorry now I'm going off on a tangent. Lol
shareYeah, Cory really pissed me off that episode. Yes, going to college is a good thing for many people but Shawn found a passion in this episode. If he had kept that job he would have learned more in a year or two then what he would ever learn in college, assuming of course that he wanted to pursue a career as a photographer.
shareEh, it's extremely difficult to get a job without a college degree these days. Extremely. Doesn't always matter how much you know, so many employers will just throw the non-college resumes right out the door.
Wasn't it that Shawn decided to go to school and then continued to work at that studio part-time? That was the smarter move.
You don't need a degree to be a photographer, you just do it. They never mentioned the photography stuff again after that episode so I don't know if he continued to work or not.
shareMy boyfriend actually went to school for photography, but after he graduated and tried to get jobs, he was told it would have been better if he just learned how to do it at the job he interviewed at, instead of going to Kaplan for it. He's since gone back to school to learn a different trade.
shareMy boyfriend actually went to school for photography, but after he graduated and tried to get jobs, he was told it would have been better if he just learned how to do it at the job he interviewed at, instead of going to Kaplan for it.No offense to your boyfriend but... I used to work in the registrar's office at Kaplan... it's not a real school. It's an online university, like University of Phoenix. It's scarcely better than a scam, and the degree is worthless. Of course it's better to have stayed at that job then go to a for-profit online school to learn about it. Shawn went to a respected actual university. I'm sure the people he interviewed with would not have told him to have not bothered going to a school at somewhere like Penn or Penn State or whatever Pennbrook's based on. share
You don't need a degree to be a photographer, you just do it. They never mentioned the photography stuff again after that episode so I don't know if he continued to work or not.Well, GMW did show he did wind up being a photojournalist. You can maybe make an argument you don't need a degree to be a photographer, but you sure as hell do to be a successful journalist and write anywhere but your own blog.
And, I know a few photographers. They all went to college. Everyone goes to college. You need to go to college today. People who are working a great job and didn't go to college probably got lucky or have connections. share
It's also extremely hard to get a job WITH a GRADUATE'S degree
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Glozone, the sad thing is, it's hard to get a job even WITH a college degree!
I love this show but hated how preachy it was about education and going to college. I'm sorry but it's not the most important thing in life.
You know what? I agree with you.
First of all, the show was way too preachy and repetitive. How many times did we have to hear about how long the kids have known each other??? I just watched the episode 'Brother, Brother' and just as the title indicates: they repeated that they were brothers no less than 20 times in 26 minutes of show. "You're my brother, we've lived in this room together for 15 years. 15 years." "I know, I'm your brother. We lived in this room together of 15 years...." "Mom, Dad, I'm Cory's brother, I've lived in that room with him for 15 years"
"Topanga, I've known you since you were 2. Yeah I know in the first season we were virtual strangers and mere classmates but as the series has gone on, our fan base wants to believe we had more of a past so let's defy continuity to give them that."
Sorry that wasn't anything like what you said, but back to your point about college:
This show definitely had a squeaky-clean, parental-approved, pro-college agenda. That doesn't sit real well with me because it's true that college isn't right for everyone. Realistically, Eric, Cory and Topanga would've ended up going to college, and that's fine. But Shawn was the perfect prototype to represent all those kids/people who went to a trade school, avoided 6 figures of debt, came out in less than a year with a useful skill that he can make money off of for the rest of his life. Join the union, etc. That's realistic and I think would've been a better message of acceptance and tolerance than: go to college.
Education in America is one of the biggest scams out there. We charge students more interest than we charge banks. "Education" is an overpriced monopoly pretty much, because of the message that you won't amount to anything if you don't go. That's not even true. Some of the happiest people with the most stable jobs went to trade school. Instead, Boy Meets World thought it would be better to have a rich half brother show up to pay for Shawn's schooling. Or did they just ignore the price issue as they did so many times on this show? I forget, but either way I would've preferred to have seen them use him to represent a different demographic than the upper middle class 4-years kids. share
I don't agree with all of this. You're absolutely right, that some people are better off just going to a trade school, aren't the right people for college anyway, and are better off just learning a trade and working at that. And this would have been a good route for, say, Harley Keiner or Joey the Rat.
But not Shawn. Yeah, he didn't shine in school, but he's also not someone who would have been remotely happy or fulfilled just, like, learning how to be an electrician and then going off and doing that. Especially as we learned more about him as the seasons went on, Shawn's a dreamer, a philosopher, a poet. Of the main four, he was ultimately revealed to be the most artistic and most creative (well, maybe second most creative after Eric) - Shawn needed to go to college. Any blue collar work-a-day temperament he had had been foisted on him by his upbringing and his family. It didn't really seem to be who Shawn was.
Ultimately, education is a good thing, not a bad thing. Yes, it's become exorbitantly expensive, and that's a problem, but it's still a positive message to show that as something to strive for if you can. And while, yes, granted I was an upper middle class kid myself, and so BMW was parroting the world view I was taught anyway, I do think that trade schools are the best options for some people only because they don't have better option, either not being able to afford universities or else not scholastically inclined enough to do well in them. For most people, I think if they could make those two things not true, they would.