We want to do well at school for an obvious reason, because we are often told that it’s the primary rule for doing well at life. Few of us are in love with the A+’s we get at school; we want them because understandably it helps us get the things we so require in the future. Success in career, a pleasant house and respect from people around us.
So you want to get a degree? Why? Let me tell you what society will tell you. It increases your chances of getting a job, provides you with an opportunity to be successful, your life will be a lot less stressful, EDUCATION IS THE KEY. Now some of you will protest saying you know money is only the medium by which one measures worldly success. And some of you even have the nerve to say “I don’t do it for the money”. Then what are you studying for? But sometimes what seems pretty reassuring turns out to be more of a disappointment.
More often we come across people who triumphed at school but flunked at life. The former stars who once knew how to satisfy their teachers might now be flat lining in some cubicle office or relocating to a provisional town in hope of something better. Steve jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckenberg, Henry Ford, Steven Spielberg…all these people didn’t graduate from a higher learning institution. All I’m trying to say if there was a family tree, hard work and education would be related but school would be some distant cousin. If Education is the key, School is the lock. So as long as you follow the rules and pass the exams you’re cool. Proverbs 17:16 – “It does a fool no good to spend money on an education.”
Education is about inspiring one’s mind not just filling their heads. The path that seemed guaranteed to lead to success and gone straight into the sand. We shouldn’t be actually surprised. School curricula weren’t designed such that everyone would ultimately earn success in life. No, school curricula were intellectually influenced by some slightly random forces over hundreds of years of evolution. Shaped by among many things like medieval monastery, the ideas of some 19th century German lists, and the concerns of aristocratic courts. Sometimes there are many bad habits that school inculcates like suggesting that the most important things are already known or what is, is all that could be or how they would like to warn us about the dangers of originality. Nobody quite knows what’s going on. They seem to teach us everything but the two most important things needed for quality adult life. Knowing how to choose the right job for us and how to form satisfactory relationships. Instead they instruct us in Latin and how to measure the circumference of a circle long before they teach us these two things.
Work and Love. Now I’m not saying school is evil and there is nothing to gain. All I’m saying is understand your motives and reassess your aims, because if you want to have a job working under someone else, then help yourself. But then that would be a contradiction because you are not helping yourself, you are helping somebody else. There is a saying which says “ If you don’t build your dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs”.
We need to have open minds and not blindly believe everything we are taught in school. Rather explore and get to know the mysteries beyond these textbooks. We need to be outwardly, entirely obedient and inwardly, intelligently and unashamedly rebellious.
School is good but education is greater. Redefine what education means to you and let that lead you to success.
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