When it comes down to it, everything can be taken from you at one point in your life. Everything. You can lose your family, your house, your job, any physical aspect of your life can be taken. Everything except for what you know.
I have always been someone who has greatly valued my education because I strongly believe that what you know is the only thing that can’t get taken from you. Physically, at least, no one can walk into your life and take it away from you.
After thinking about what my education means to me, I’ve come to a conclusion that I don’t necessarily value my education. Rather, I value my knowledge.
I think it’s stressed too much in today’s society that kids and young adults need to stay in school and get smarter so they can get a good job, so they can make a lot of money, so they can get a big house and raise a proper family and thus repeat the cycle.
But I think that’s wrong. I think the education system is wrong and were not being taught in the right way. I value my knowledge. I value what I know and that’s something that I don’t want to change. I do not think education is the most important thing in the world.
Here’s why.
Education has been forced upon us from age five until we were about 18 years old. After that, it’s a choice. Some of the best and brightest people I know didn’t finish or even go to college.
I don’t think you need education, but you need knowledge. And you can get knowledge from almost anything.
Education is taught to us in such a straightforward manner. Here’s a book, read some chapters. Here’s a quiz, answer some questions. You’re limited to what you learn and what you get to know. When you’re in school, you don’t get a choice of what it is that you get taught. Knowledge is a choice and I think that is something that needs to be taught more.
Knowledge is something that can be found through anything. It’s like you’re left with this infinite world of possibilities and an abundance of things. You can teach yourself to know so much of the world it’s almost as if you don’t know where to start.
I think that’s a problem with the education system. Basically, it’s the fact that we don’t always get the freedom or choice of what it is that we want to do, or know.
All of this is just a matter of opinion. I don’t think the education system can be changed. But I think the way that we value our education and value ourselves is what can be changed. Knowledge and education and the power of what we know is such a valuable thing. It’s the only thing that’s ever physically ours and our own. And I think we sometimes take advantage of that. Believe me, there’s nothing I would ever give up for my ability to have an education. But as I’ve said, I’ve come to learn that it’s the knowledge I have that I value.
All in all, education and knowledge have the ability to be the same thing. I think we need to adapt more to the fact that knowledge needs to be valued. Education is a choice. What we choose to learn is up to us. And our knowledge is the only thing that can’t ever get taken away.