March 10, 2010
People don’t think. But people, especially when they are young are told, “You have to go to college. You need a degree.â€
But the truth is, you don’t need an education to learn how to think. I state this because there are many days I wonder, why I bothered getting degrees.
Many successful and creative people had what, by ‘modern’ standards, would be considered a substandard education or no formal education at all?
First, I won’t even mention Thomas Edison, but I choose Hemingway, and yes, I know his socialist sympathies are an issue, but what post-secondary education did he have? Besides none?
I’m not saying education be damned you’ll be a success, but why, to be a journalist, does anyone have to spend four years and X dollars to get a degree in writing to work for any news sources. Without a degree, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a Nobel Prize. Al Gore, failed presidential candidate has a journalism degree and a science fiction, or rather a ‘science’ slideshow under his belt. Also, being in the right place at the right time, and accomplishing nothing, you can get one just for ‘being.’
Fields exist were an advanced education is necessary. Astrophysics comes to mind, as does economics, but education? Remove the Education Department, a political and multicultural issues, and focus on Education and Theory Department, and money, time and minds will be saved.
Is thinking that hard? When people cut out the noise, and I don’t been just the TV, I mean everything, what is left is the silence, which can be filled with one’s own thoughts, not the opinions vomited out by some electronic device or hardcopy publication.
The problem is: do people have their own thoughts anymore? Or is it just ‘my teams against your team,’ ‘pull the lever,’ ‘click on the screen,’ ‘fire off nasty names,’ because on the internet, being anonymous makes being vile easy and safe.
How many people have actually thought about what they ‘think’ about, their beliefs? It shouldn’t take a philosophy course or four years in any educational institution to “stop, look and listen.â€
Independent thinking is a divine right, and not some extension of natural selection. One’s thoughts may evolve over time and they should, but the change should be the result of careful consideration, and not group think indoctrination.
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