Posts Tagged ‘self educated’
Get Educated
University education – what is the point? It seems to me that being a ‘student’ these days is really just a three year campaign to achieving liver poisoning. And that’s only part of the reason I encouraged my son do a city and guilds training course in engineering rather than go to university to rack up a three year debt, only to end up another statistic after it all. I mean, in my day, being a student with a university education meant being passionate about the subject you wanted to study and highly skilled in it. Nowadays you can get a degree in just about anything and a loan to spend on drinking yourself to a stupor the whole while. And the education system actually promotes this ridiculous activity. No wonder so many kids leave university without any real sense of direction. People should only get a degree in a classic subject that they are skilled in and passionate about.
My daughter for instance – she’s always been the mathematician in the family. I mean, she just has a natural ability in the subject and thoroughly enjoys it; it only makes sense to support her in taking it further at a good course in an established university institute. But I don’t want any of my children to go into higher education as young adults under the assumption that they are doing so in order to solely “have a blast”, with no real sense of purpose or direction. A degree is meaningless with no solid pathway upon completion. I honestly can’t understand why more education authorities and parents don’t encourage young adults to take up the likes of a city and guilds training course or training at some such similar body – society would be much better off sporting a mass of individuals with relevant and specific skill sets rather than all these wishy washy ‘subjects’ you can study at what we’re duped into believing are actual ‘universities’.