Here is a reason why I think school is cool
These days, you will hear a lot about how not school, but education is the key. I agree. About how the system just wants to create followers and yesers. About how they inhibit creativity and freedom, all while they make you believe it’s the right thing. About how they encourage self-doubt and condemn confidence. And about how the greatest people we know fought against this foul system and won. If it happened to some, it means it’s true, it’s working. But I strongly believe there’s a misunderstanding here. They all tried, in the first place, but something failed, indeed, and I’m telling you it’s not them, it’s the system that failed them. It’s just normal they gave up on it and not on themselves. Now, this is not an excuse to put the blame on it, to rebel against it, to throw stones at it. It’s a alarm that you should do something about it.
Be smart. Analyse. Think and remember during the process to not let the system take what it needs from you, because it will. And it will hit you hard. Instead take whatever you need from it. Study the hell out of it, talk to people, read, demand information. Just don’t let them dictate the directions for you, dictate them yourself. Don’t let school tell you what’s wrong or right, pick it for yourself. How Mark Twain said 'I won't let schooling interfere with my education.' Redefine what education is to you, because there is a very fine line between the two of them. Learn that while schooling may stop at some point, education never does. Learn when to shut up and when to speak up. The best way to fight a virus is to go to its root. To stop it from inside.
So, go to school. Go to university. Involve yourself as much as possible and make them think they won. Then fight them with their own weapon and they won't know what hit them. In any society you need to comply with the rules and follow certain directions to get wherever you want. It’s just the way it is. Trying to change it will not help anyone, instead try to work with what you have. In any good there’s bad and in any bad there’s good. Surrender to the flow, stop fighting it.
What I’m saying is wherever you find yourself in this life, try to find the best out of everything and never get lost in the process. Think for yourself first. The smartest rules there are.
