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Originally Posted by eliaino  Yes. But if other people think that education is not problematic, I'd like to know why they think it's important. I grew up in a household where education was stressed before everything else--so, if someone became a millionaire, but they didn't have a bachelor's degree, they hadn't "made it." As I got out into the world, I noticed people with master's degrees who were twenty dollars away from starving, or very bored, bitter people in white collar jobs that needed a degree. I couldn't understand how someone would spend tens of thousands of dollars on college--it looked to me like they were losing money, and with no possibility of bankruptcy protection!
What's the correct role for education in a person's life? Okay, I know it varies from person to person, but perhaps there's some sort of pattern that can be drawn. |
Education as we know it in the west is brainwashing. That's the blunt truth. John Taylor Gatto is my whistle-blower of choice on this issue:
John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
You can start on this
free article and then get into his books if you feel like it. It really will rock your world.
If you can take the truth, that is. It can be a wee bit uncomfortable. But you're not alone. OK? I had all of this inner conflict too.
If you want to know, I decided to drop my education (just) before completing the degree before university. I felt like I'd rather die than go through any sort of job or study course that used a degree to decide that I was worthy or not, simply because exams reward those who don't shake the boat rather than those who really love learning and growth. The education system in the west is fear-based. Therefore, any job which would hire me on the basis of these things is probably fear-based. My purpose is to destroy fear-based structures, not validate them.
Well, there
are people who prefer to work with the system while using love at the same time. I find that approach a little alien to me. To me, to love in this world means you have to be a rebel. Some of my friends have gone the other route, though, and I see them exhausted after being driven too hard in their new jobs, being sapped of passion, and becoming disillusioned.
On the other hand, I've struggled in my new independence too, mostly internally, fighting against my own conditioned fear and greed (greed being the fear of lack, one of the main tools that is used to hold people in the system). I've been living off the generosity of my parents for a few years, though I have also spent time exploring alternative, money-free ways of living which I know would support me if it really came to the crunch... Though to be honest I think that was still avoiding my true passion and purpose.
The question is, do you want to live a life of total love and happiness? Then you need to rebel, in one way or another. You can tolerate the system if your purpose requires that, but in one way or another to love is to be in conflict with the status quo, and as such it will do everything it can to stop you. Don't underestimate it. If you want to love, don't put yourself in the system's power and influence, because that's just like standing up in no-man's land with a bullseye painted over your chest. Get independent.
If you're still in limbo between the desires to base your life on love or fear, then feel free to explore life in the system. Try not to delude yourself, though. You're not loving by being a slave, and neither can you ever be happy.
Love and light, a strong hug,
Andrew