I love education and acquiring further knowledge. That is why I believe a person should get educated all his life. However I strongly disagree with the schooling system, I think it is old, outdated and crying for a change.
I finished high school a couple of years back with flying colors, something that would guarantee ma a place in any university I wanted. I didn't go. Middle school was fun for me, it was easy, but not really challenging. High school was boring. I realize now, I should have had a challenge, it is all about the challenge. That is how a brain gets better at its job.
I was in the top 4 in my class, and I had two very gifted young men in front of me, and one who really had to work hard to get there. The two guys could have learned in a higher grade.
This brings me to the problem with the schooling system. People pride themselves on being unique, different from each other, and we are. Age should not be the marker of what one person should know, because we all know far too well, that a lot of kids are struggling at school, while others are excelling.
I have a favorite quote for this phenomenon.
Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid
--Albert Einstein
We should be able to choose what knowledge we want to acquire, and we should be able to study subjects that meet our capacity to understand, but schools are preparing us to work on a conveyor belt, they are taking individuals and making workers. They are not creating thinkers as they are punishing for mistakes. Tell me one thing, how does a person learn? By making mistakes. I was so afraid to make mistakes, that the one time I got a bad grade I was crying (I was 9 years old). This grade didn't affect my final result at all, but I had this thought in my head that it was bad to make mistakes. And I still remember that day crystal clear, tell me that is not a scar on a brain.
When you make a mistake in school, you get a bad grade, for some reason most people say ''go to school, get good grades, find a good job, become rich'' This is so ridiculous for a single reason. Let me ask you, how many people having a 9 to 5 job are money rich?
Schools do not teach financial education. They teach how to work for somebody else, they haven't changed since they were created In the industrial times.
The ones who succeed are the drop outs, the pupils who rebelled. The individual thinkers. I know for a fact that one of the smart guys in my class is studying to become doctor. Do doctors get rich? Maybe, sometimes, usually doctors are wealthy, but overworked. I know this, because I know a some doctors.
It is not bad to be an employee, and I am not saying that you shouldn't go to school, what I am saying is, don't forget to have your own head, do study what you love, but don't get stuck studying for a paycheck, for a degree that your parents want, not you, and remember, your school is not going to teach you how to deal with money, you have to learn that, money is important today, so you better educate yourself about it.
