I Don’t Need No Education

We are all told that the next step after High School is and must be college. That is what our advanced culture and society demands of us. It’s pretty hard to get a good job without a college education and from what I’ve been shown it looks as if in the future it will be nearly impossible. But what becomes of us who don’t need no schoolin’? That question brings us to today’s quote.

“If you have the courage to say you don’t conform you had better have the courage to never live life.” -Ethan Glover

We are all conformists whether we want to admit it or not. Everyone belongs to a category and everyone can be labeled. Even “non-conformists” are conformists. Conform is a very unbalanced word. If you think about it enough a lot of words can have so many definitions that you lose track of what it meant in the first place.

Words aren’t the only things this idea applies to either. It’s very easy to lose track of the true meanings of things simply by aspiring to learn more about them than you really need to. Love, life, respect and even college.

You are told when you are young that going to college is all about getting smarter and getting a good job. Later you are told you must work hard in school and in college to get what you want out of life. And so you do just that when you are young. Then you start forgetting what you were told in the beginning and start looking for and finding alternatives.

I despise the very idea of college. I see it as a cheap shortcut to getting out of doing any real work in your life. I don’t believe in waking up on third and saying I hit a triple. I think I should start in a crappy paying job and work my way up to riches. Not read a bunch of books and get an “internship”.

I support the idea of apprenticeships but internships… Most people would see these two things as the same. I don’t. With internships you already have the education, now all you need is the experience. So you go to a company and work on small things and fetch coffee without pay. Plus you’re often competing with other interns for the job. It’s a way for companies to get free labor. Just like paid escorts being legal prostitution, internships are legal slavery.