Why college is overrated:
Be an adult; not a credential
Clarity (notsomuch credentials?) is power. Be clear on what you want; clarify your goals and values, and be capable of clarity.
Flunked out college? Good! More than make up for it (In terms of detachment or character or experience, vocational training, goal setting, or perhaps other credentials?)
School is basically babysitting for people under 25; if you are over 25, clarify your goals and values.
Because it is a system of indoctrination of the young
College and University as a possible "trap".......
Colleges often geared too much towards STEM research
Perhaps a "rule" that is made to be broken..........
The counselors are bullshit
Not necessarily worth the price it carries (years of time and money, conformity, obedience, and too much faith and obedience in to institutions, subjugation to indoctrination, giving the higher education system too much credit)
Thus to conform to such a flawed system might be unprincipled
Most teachers are not public intellectuals. They are not mentors, gurus, lifestyle coaches, consultants, or philosophers. More like beureaucrats and freelancers affecting to be such.
If you must get your credential; than get an associates degree; unless your college doesn't offer it, in which case we have yet another reason why your college is an overrated POS.
Drop your excuses (even about credentials)
Overpriced
Formal education is glorified conformity
Detachment (maybe even from credentials.....) is a virtue. Repeated detachment!
Experience and goal setting make up for (and often a superior form of) credentials
(zen-daoist no-credentials!)
Never look for your work in one place; and your progress in another
The "real" universities care more about research, sports, indoctrination, profits, than they do about class performance
Communities colleges would be good except they suck (due to counselors and pros who couldn't make in the real universities )
A lot of the criticisms geared toward public education (which is a glorified baby-sitter) are actually more true of higher education (due to colleges being either crappy community colleges, bad counselors, overrated professors, research and indoctrination.)
Check Out Noam Chomsky on this issue
Check out John Taylor Gatto on this issue
If you want to do something (like say teach, can always do it online......)you may find a way, if not, you may find an excuse.
College isn't for everyone
The library is probably a lot better than bunch of useless profs.
The United States is clearly using the "necessity" of higher education against people.
What is often considered Happiness shouldn't be too tied to attachments (such as wealth credentials etc.)
No one is going to do a great job of educating but yourself............
Better to get advice and instruction from books and mentors than tenured professors........
The ultra-elite universites (like Ivy League) are even bigger bullshit; because anyone smart enough to get in to one doesn't need it or can go to some other college or mode of education.
School is often more about professional training/bearaucratic
training, instead of helping you find out what you want to do! You'll
have to find that out for yourself..///
Don't conform to the machine, regardless of what if offers you (be it wealth, credentials, and so on)
There is even a link between prisons and Universities:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/5-links-between-higher-education-and-the-prison-industry-20140618
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most
ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
Carpe Diem! (Seize the day!)
An accurate diagnosis is half the cure......
Meditate. Meditation as substitute for university......
Live every hour as if it were your last.......
Gain work experience
Learn goal setting (and as more importantly, goal review)
Find purpose
Follow your bliss
clarify your dreams
Be patient (he that can have patience; can have what he will)
Establish good reading habits on your own
Learn informally via youtube channels such as Crash course. Or public intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky.
Form your own values; not the values you are pressured to have
Write your own script
Consolations; write consolations that you may console yourself of anything! If you want to be consoled, write consolations!
Make sure that you value your own principles and values over the privelages university supposedly provides.
Learn from and carefully review your mistakes ; and don't be afraid to draw your own conclusions
Meditate
When you drop out; drop out carefully. Or, just learn from it!
TEFL is bullshit; but that's one way to study abroad; or some other vocational training for a credential.
If you want to be diligent, be diligent!
If you want to be educated, read
IF you want to be wise, study philosophy
If you want to improve yourself, study self improvement
If you want credentials; gain dilligence, patience, experience, expertise and detachment (From credentials!)
If you want a magic piece of paper, write down and review your goals! (thus, even goals are your credential.....)
Earl Nightingale said many years ago that one hour per day of study in
your chosen field was all it takes. One hour per day of study will put
you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years
you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the
best people in the world at what you do.
Find a way or make one!
If you didn't go to college, learn from that mistake
If you dropped out of college, learn from that mistake
If you droned on in college (like some boring office drone or some submissive tofu eating Asian boy!), you sire, have made a mistake. Now learn from it!
You don't have to be success-oriented, but learn from your mistakes as carefully as if you were.
Check out azquotes.com and wikiquotes.org to study quotes from famous wise men.
Check out Peter Thiel.... the Peter Thiel fellowship. Get paid to drop out of college!
http://thielfellowship.org/
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QUOTES:
“Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he
took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable
direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of
pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community,
belongs to everyone.”
―
John Taylor Gatto,
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
John Taylor Gatto
The economy schoolchildren currently expect to
live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people
trained to think critically.
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
"As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed." - John Taylor Gatto
Usually when you ask somebody in college why
they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of
it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in
the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only
reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Abbie Hoffman
“You are who you choose to be.”
―
Ted Hughes,
The Iron Man
"Nobody Can Educate You, Except Yourself"
"We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life." ~ Seneca the Younger
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.
- Shelby Foote quoted in: North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54 (1993), p. 162
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
