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Dreaming Out Loud: Education

judyohsofruity:

I feel like everyone takes this for granted. Without education, we have a world full of ignorance. You cannot expect to get what you want, to attain enough credibility, if you are not knowledgeable enough to get the facts straight and your arguments valid.

Seeing everyone in college, they are not…

I agree with parts of this post, because I appreciate education but I can’t help but to say that I disagree with half of it. The original post is in regular font, and my responses are in bold.

I feel like everyone takes this for granted. Without education, we have a world full of ignorance. You cannot expect to get what you want, to attain enough credibility, if you are not knowledgeable enough to get the facts straight and your arguments valid.

I agree with the importance of education, but I believe that it is not perfect and certainly not for everybody. Furthermore, credibility does not necessarily come with education.

Seeing everyone in college, they are not fully grasping the appreciation of an education. Their only goal is to find a job ( which they usually are not passionate towards) from the major they find the most stable, and burn up all the ounce of material they’ve learned.

You look down on those who go to college in order to find a better job, yet you speak of education as the “gateway towards success.” Considering that most students believe this to be true as well, it is logical to pursue higher education in order to gain financial feasibility (and thus, success). However, this is a false reality.

Basically, they are taking classes they don’t even like, memorizing pages of material for a test, and then fall back into a sponge when it’s over. That isn’t learning; that is just regurgitating whatever the teacher shoots at you and you believe is right. Not everything a teacher says is right and it should be the student’s job to actually want to learn the material, apply it, and think on their own from it.

I feel as if you are heavily criticizing students without taking situational forces into account. Students take unnecessary classes because they are transfer/graduation requirements. Higher education creates an environment that systematically pressures students into regurgitating information rather than actually learning.

I don’t think these people are intelligent. People say knowing everything indicates intelligence, but I believe it’s the aspect of finding new knowledge and being able to apply it everyday is the foundation. Everyone cannot know everything, and for those who continue to seek knowledge to correct themselves, they find ways of creating new knowledge, new inventions, and new ideas into this world. This, my friend, is what you call smart.

True, although intelligence is a subjective. I wouldn’t take anything away from people who do “know everything.”

Many people complain about school, how dumb it is, how teachers are giving them work, or how they are learning something that won’t be needed in life. Instead, they find that they’re wasting time in school when they could be getting high ( in general consensus).

Complaining is a waste of time, but you’re stereotyping a majority of college students.

First of all, education is the most vital resource for humans to be thinkers, to be able to develop brain capacity and utilize it to create something better for this world. An education is the gateway towards success, because you cannot expect to know simple concepts of science or math without going to school. Many people are illiterate in that field, and they might as well live under a rock without much meaning to the world. They drone on about papers, tests, and bad teachers. It is the students’ prerogative to open up their minds, to accept that not everything is perfect, and if they want to change something completely irrational to them, they should gain more knowledge on topics and abide regulations nonetheless. All that complaining won’t do you no good.

Again, this is another flaw of higher education. It is imperfect yet students must abide regulations. This is the complete opposite of open-mindedness.

Not going to school won’t get you anywhere either. Whom will you trust more? Someone who dropped out of high school or one with a degree? Certainly, education provides the change towards the future generations.

I welcome you to witness the declining values of college degrees. Besides professions that require certain degrees and exams as admission into the field (i.e. engineers or doctors), education does not necessarily correlate with success. I trust people because of their prior experience and what they currently do, not a piece of paper.

Teachers are there as agents to guide potential leaders and makers of history. It is just sad that rarely anyone is taking that seriously.

Not necessarily true either. I have had teachers who do the bare minimum because it is their job, not their passion. When you reach the university level, it is naive to believe that all professors have your best interest in mind. Some are researchers first, and teachers only because they have to.

Everyone is too self-absorbed to do anything about it. Where are our Martin Luther Kings? Our Ghandi? Perhaps, we’re just cowards who don’t want to have any meaning in our lives.

So let’s get a college degree…like everybody else!

At least we have James Franco, JGL, and Emma Watson, who emphasize creativity, education, and productivity. 

Allow me to throw a few names out: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Kanye West (lol) who have made a greater impact on the world than a few actors or no-name graduates.