A direction the class needs

Every class needs a direction. Without a direction how can you get anywhere? And if you aren’t getting anywhere then the class isn’t serving its purpose. I don’t think we need a specific direction to be making progress. We can be moving in any one direction and still be moving forward as long as we are trying to go in that direction. The difference between a class and an individual is that the direction a class takes needs to be a direction that every person in the class agrees on. This is why it’s much harder to find a direction for a class, or any group of people, than is it to find a direction for yourself alone or any other individual. If some of the people in the class don’t agree on the direction its going they could be left behind and not learn as much and get the full benefit of the class. That’s why a direction for any class to take must be considered carefully so that everyone can agree on it. However, this is very hard and sometimes things must be settled democratically. It’s like deciding what to do when hanging out with your friends on a Friday night. Someone might say, “hey why don’t we just hang out here at so and so’s basement?” and a couple people might agree and a couple people might say they don’t care. Then someone might say “hey lets just go to the movies” or “hey lets go to a party”. It will usually take hours to decide which direction to head off to as a group, and even then there’s a chance that direction might change over the course of the night. The most important thing is to end up going in the direction that leaves the least amount of people mad.