Anyone who knows me or has read a few of my blog posts knows that I’m not the biggest proponent of academia’s institutionalized schools of thought or learning. I think of most pre-collegiate level schools (save some magnets and specialized forward-thinking private ones) as daycare centers and monitoring camps designed to showcase meager behavior through acceptance of low performance in studies, segregated aptitude testing and application of monetary based correctional ideologies with a clear and ultimate goal to create mindless, drone-worthy cogs ready to integrate into someone’s corporation and work.
Alma Mater matters how exactly?
And college really isn’t that much better. On trains and buses, on televisions and radio do we see and hear that battle cry for supposed self-improvement “Get an education!” that would rally the masses into enrolling into coursework that 9/10 times isn’t close to what they’ll be doing once they get out. All the philosophically deep thinking and Einstein level arithmetic computations in the world don’t mean a hill of re-fried beans if it can’t put a dollar in your pocket. That’s the reality that I faced once I finished my college experience. I was lost in the grand idea that was print journalism and while I did have some success with it and ultimately fulfilled my dream of writing for The Source, the whole industry pretty much crapped out shortly after. Do I regret spending all of that time learning the ins and outs of proper grammar, journalistic ethics and knowing how to control emotion through my writing? Not at all. It helped me find a million side hustles that helped me survive when that bubble burst. Do I wish I would’ve stayed awake a little more in my business courses? Hell yes.
What a real education is to me
To me, a real education consists of two things: learning the game from someone who has done it and succeeded and application of said game to test it for yourself. Business schools are very much like academia to me, they show you formulae that may or may not be outdated and you’re left hoping that it sticks. I’d be happier seeing the classroom setting done away with and the students being brought on to learn directly from business owners themselves live in the field. Show them the different functions of a company and give them the opportunity to run it; that alone is worth the price of admission to me. Matter of fact, why do you even need a prim and proper “schooling” for that?
Teach ‘em how to stack chips early
If you have kids at home, why not set up a corporation umbrella for your family and show them how to start their own businesses when they’re young? Instead of them always asking you for money, they can make their own while counteracting the non useful rhetoric they’re taught at school. Each birthday, give them something that they can use to further their endgame so that by the time they’re at an appropriate age to go to college, they can decide if they want to go for the experience or create an experience elsewhere instead of having to either enroll or enlist. College isn’t for everyone and the military (in my opinion) isn’t for anyone. If you know how to make money, the world, as cliche as it is, is your oyster and you can skip past all the unnecessary bull that is pushed your way out of being broke, like working a dead-end job. Wealth building is good for the soul.
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One is the rule and the other is the application. It’s just the country is set up to teach people the rule. There isn’t a real looking at what someone really has a knack for or even what they would give their all to be. Instead it’s to make sure you are teachable and that’s just stupid. But, in business you want someone to do what’s told and teachable people do exactly what is told.