A vaulted white tower to avoid unless you're looking for zero structure, little support and to make up your degree as you go. I can't speak to other detractors feedback about the practical uselessness of their degrees. I can speak to how this literal lofty ideal will fail you unless you have lots of self-discipline, time and energy.
The best decision I ever made was taking the leap to attend Goddard College. Rigorous and radical learning, personal and academic transformation, amazing community and truly magical land.
I've been to 20 schools since kindergarten. I have been to this many because I have never been satisfied. I've been to everything from Krishnamurti to prep boarding to Waldorf to Montessori to online to correspondence to Hampshire College to Education for Life...the list goes on an on...I have even held student revolts concerning dissatisfaction with teachers!
Out of all the schools I have been to, Goddard College is the only one I can fully stand behind and recommend. I actually LOVE this place. I LOVE the teachers- they are so incredibly intelligent, awake, radical, understanding, and loving.
I'm still adjusting to the fact that I love a school after such disappointment all of these years.
I just LOVE this place.
Thanks, Goddard
History, culture, acceptance, a great place to learn and grow!
There is no place like Goddard. It's a college where you can major in whatever you want. Literally. You can get graduate degrees in whatever you want. You direct your course of study. You take responsibility for your education and shape it how you want. Goddard is deeply committed to social justice and environmental advocacy, and the people here are quirky, unusual, passionate, and kind. The staff are outstanding. The faculty are amazing. As far as a distance programme goes, Goddard's model is excellent, and students produce some truly remarkable work. If traditional education hasn't worked for you, if you're disabled or you have interests that don't fit neatly into a department, Goddard has a place for you.
Awesome in all respects. Make sure to try the chili dogs.
Applying to the MFAW program here was the best academic decision I have ever made. The campus is beautiful and well-kept, the faculty is welcoming and encouraging and really know their stuff, and the workshops were interesting and valuable. I look forward to the next two years here!
Through my thirteen years at Goddard serving as program director and dean and faculty, I have walked by the side of amazing students and colleagues. For me Goddard is a pocket of hope-- for serious inquiry, personal transformation and social change for the well-being of our communities and the earth.
For those ignorant of Goddard's history, too bad. It had been for many decades the most radical educational institution in America, populated by thousands and thousands of young misfits trying to find their way to a personal understanding of their own potential, and finding the type of guidance that could be found nowhere else. Those of us that have gone through "the Goddard experience" were helped in a way that few others could understand, because, by their very nature, those same people would probably never understand us to begin with. Yes, we were all misfits, and now we are proud Goddard misfits. Just the way it is.
Everyone has the right to express their opinion, however, it's extremely inappropriate to do so in the form of a review when they have had no formal experience with the college. They inaccurately damage the reputation of the school as a whole.
Goddard is a progressive school that is committed to helping create a better world. The programs and administration give students the gift of learning to teach themselves and the tools to think critically. These are forever incredibly valuable qualities.
I only ask that people take the school for its true identity and realize that the controversy, although blown up by the media, is merely a sliver of everything that Goddard is.
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