I learned this much:
I learned the education system is a lie.
3 times they bait and switched me:
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From standard grade chemistry, promised to educate on chemistry, the whole periodic table, etc… Higher chemistry, they trained us to be industry drones, focusing on hydrocarbons only.
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From Art & Design 1st year college, promised to educate on art, all art… 2nd Year, knitting. (WTF).
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From Computer Art 2nd year college, promised to educate on all computer arts… 3rd year, web design. (WTF).
I gave up on formal education after that (~ a decision that was further confirmed by other fails noticed in that last year).
In the following year, I learned more on my own with an internet connection and a library card, than I had learned in the entire prior 14 years of formal “education”.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where I learned things and inhaled books at a furious rate? Yes. Where I was successful academically? No.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Never let school get in the way of your education.
Caveat: I’ve said this brashly to several deans, when it seemed appropriately inappropriate, and while a few are now good friends, the others acted troubled and now seem to avoid me. That is, YMMV. Some lifer academics may not understand when you disregard the only rubrics they know.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did a lot better in college before I had to drop out because of lack of funds. But most of my academic career was failure after failure.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There’s a sheer existential terror of man fully actualized and living the most free life, observed from the other side of an academic table
Whereas one life is half over and full of regrets, and mistakes
The other has only just begun, and seems full of potential and worse yet, certainty
What is there to do but to try to destroy something so beautiful?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, making joints out of the pages of books doesn’t magically make you smart, you gotta read those pages first