Why I Hate School But Love Education ABOUT
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So you want... to get a degree
Why?
Let me tell you what society will tell you:
Increases your chances of getting a job,
Provides you an opportunity to be successful,
Be a lot less stressful,
Education is the key .
Now let me tell you something your parents
will tell you:
Make me proud,
Increases your chances of getting a job,
Provides you an opportunity to be successful,
Your life will be a lot less stressful,
Education is the key.
Now let's look at the statistics,
Steve Jobs - net worth seven billion R.I.P,
Richard Branson - net worth four point two
billion,
Oprah Winfrey - two point seven billion,
Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Steven
Spielberg, Bill Gates
Now here comes the Coup de grâce,
Looking at these individuals, what's your
conclusion?
Neither of them in being successful,
Ever graduated from a higher learning
institution.
Now some of you may be like,
Money is only the medium by which we
measure worldly success,
And some of you even have the nerve to say
"I don't do it for the money."
So what you studying for?
To work for a charity?
Need more clarity?
Let's look at the statistics:
Jesus,
Muhammed,
Socrates,
Malcolm X,
Mother Teresa,
Spielberg,
Shakespeare,
Beethoven,
Jesse Owens,
Muhammad Ali,
Sean Carter ,
Michael Jeffrey Jordan,
Michael Joseph Jackson.
Were either of these people unsuccessful...
or... uneducated?
All I'm saying is that,
If there was a family tree hard work and
education would be related,
But school would probably be a distant
cousin,
Because if education is the key,
School is the lock,
Because it rarely ever develops your mind to
the point where it can perceive red as green
and continue to go when someone else said
stop.
Because as long as you follow the rules and
pass exams your cool,
But are you aware that examiners have a
checklist,
And if your answer is something outside the
box then the automatic response is a cross,
And then they claim that school expands your
horizons and your visions,
Well tell that to Malcolm X who dropped out
of school and is world renowned for what he
learn in a prison.
Proverbs 17:16
It does a fool no good to spend money on an
education,
Why?
Because he has no common sense.
George Bush. Need I say more?
Education is about inspiring one's mind,
Not just filling their head,
And take this from me because I'm an
'Educated' man myself,
Who only came to this realization after
countless nights in the library,
With a can of red bull keeping me awake till
morning,
Another can in the morning,
Falling asleep between piles of books that
probably equates to the same amount I spent
on my rent,
Memorize equations, facts and dates,
Write down to the letter,
Half of which I would never remember,
And half of which I would forget straight after
the exam,
Before the start of the next semester,
Asking anyone if they had notes for the last
lecture.
I often found myself running to class,
Just so I could find a spot on which I could
rest my head and just sleep without making a
scene,
Ironic because that's the only time I ever
spent in university chasing my dreams.
And then after nights with a dead-mind,
I'd den find myself in a queue of half-awake
students, zombies,
Waiting to hand in an assignment,
Maybe that's why they call it a deadline.
And then after three years of mental
suppression,
And frustration,
My "Proud Mother" didn't even turn up to my
graduation.
Now, I'm not saying that school is evil and
there's nothing to gain,
All I'm saying is: understand your morals and
re-assess your aims,
If you want a job working for someone else
then help yourself,
But then that would be a contradiction
because you wouldn't really be helping
yourself,
You'd be helping somebody else,
There's a saying that is: if you don't build
your dreams, someone else will hire you to
help build theirs.
Redefine how you view education,
Understand it's true meaning,
Education is not just about regurgitating facts
from a book,
Or someone else's opinion on a subject to
pass an exam,
Look at it.
Picasso was educated at creating art,
Shakespeare was educated in the art of all
that was written,
Colonel Harland Sanders was educated in the
art of creating Ken Tucky Fried Chicken.
I once saw David Beckham take a free kick,
I watched as the side of his Adidas-sponsored
boot hit the patent leather of the ball at an
angle,
Which caused it to travel towards the skies as
though it was destined for the heavens,
And then as it reached the peek of it's
momentum,
As though it changed it's mind,
It switched directions.
I watched as the goalkeeper froze,
As though reciting to himself the laws of
physics,
And as though his brain was negotiating with
his eyes,
That was indeed witnessing the spectacle that
was the leather swan that was swooping
towards it,
And then reacted,
Though only a fraction of a millisecond too
late,
And before the net of the goal,
Embraced the Fifa-Sponsored ball as though it
was the prodigal son returning home,
And the country, that I live in, Erupted into
cheers,
I looked at the play and thought,
Damn,
Looking at David Beckham,
There's more than one way in this world to be,
An educated man.
Peace.
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