PODCAST NUMBER 3

MAKING TEACHING MORE AFFORDABLE

Dorothy Durfee Avery Loan Forgiveness Fund

for the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)

Exercise : outline the topic dealt with by the teacher and then reflect on the topic using your own experience as a student.

Efundunke Hughes explains that, at first, she didn't want to be a teacher but an astronautical engineer.
But there were not many black teachers or black engineers. And black teachers were unrespected and unpaid.
But there is the STEP program where Efundunke learnt what educate was during a year.
During her senior year at Stanford, she found out that she was accepted at the STEP but she couldn't afford it. But it is a program that wants to attract student that cannot afford Stanford because of the tuitions which are so high.

So, as far as I'm concerned, I think that studies should be something that anyone could afford. But yet, nowadays, it is far from being the case. Fortunately, in the french system, the state has provided scholarships for students in need. And it kind of saved me because whitout this scholarship, I would not have been able to afford to go to College. But still, I reckon that this system has some flaws. Because, at the age of 18, you don't always know what you want to do for the rest of your life. So you try some stuff, hoping to find what you are meant to be. But you don't always find it at the first shot. But the problem, with the french system, is that if you fail two years in a row, you don't receive the scholarship anymore. That is why I think it is unfortunate that the studies can be so expensive.

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