| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["education","learning","school","answer"],"appCategory":"education","appTitle":"Do you ever feel that school is a waste of time ?","appBody":"<p>I felt like this all my school life! It depends on which level of schooling we're talking about, of course, but on a personal level I think I can say the only level of formal education that I enjoyed was my primary school education. After I graduated primary school and entered into secondary school --which I think is high school in america-- every other day I just wodnered what the hell the point of it all was and how much it sucked.</p><p>Of course it's probably didn't suck that much because I was still young and it was only secondary, but the times were hard and the system sucked and we got flogged all day. But yes all those while I really did feel it was just a waste of time. But I could never confirm it or really know what I was talking about--until I got to the university, aka College.</p><p>It wss there that I decided that school really is pointless for most people, and for the most part College is just there because society can be freakishly narrow-minded and conservative in its reasoning sometimes. College isn't the way to go for most people, and most would probably drop out and follow a different path anyway. </p><p>There used to be a time, of course, probably at the time of time of the major revolutions in human history--the industrial revolutions etc--hen new modes of thinking and ideologies were discovered and universities and colleges were the only places where these peculiar kinds of knowledge were obtained. </p><p>But as time went on knowledge became way less esoteric, and more dispersed, and the most important thing NOW is not even to go to the college officially, but to attain these knowledge. A lot of great men HAS gotten things done without having to get a college degree. A lot of great investors made their inventions and innovations without a college degree, most of them being dropouts anway.</p><p>Steve Jobs built apple while receiving college tuition without being a student. Recently we've even had a Nobel Laureate in physics who had no college degree. And in our beautiful but puzzling age--the age of the Internet, where knowledge is so dispersed; where valuable information are readily available everywhere, the need of a college degree becomes even less pressing.</p><p>But because of the collective reasoning and archaic nature of society; the conservatism, we still wont choose to welcome the possibility that maybe school- -or at least college education- - really is pointless for some. Even though it has been proven time and time again that the degree sometimes is nothing more than a mere paper. That what people are interested in now is whats in our heads, not what paper we hold. Which is why a lot of graduates go around with their degree, still jobless.</p><p>Of course I'm not saying that going to college is a bad thing for EVERYONE. You can learn from people who have been established in the field and make friends and gain some life experiences that are valuable in the long run. But it is nowhere near accurate to assume that just without a college degree you are doomed for mediocrity in life. Or that it is the sole means of success for EVERYBODY.</p><p>To share an experience I had, there was a friend of mine who dropped out while we were in college. We were all in the same class and everybody thought he was crazy of course. Just out of the blue he realized what we were doing was not for him and he made the decision to drop out. Now he is the most successful among us all. If he had been afraid of society's scorn and hadn't made that decision, he might not be where he is today.</p><p>I guess what I'm really saying is that we are all wired differently, and we shouldn't let the fear of people's ridicule stop us from making an important decision we really believe in our hearts is the right one. School CAN be a waste of time atimes. I know it was for me!</p><p>Cheers.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkuw4kl8x","appParentAuthor":"penauthor","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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