Quotes

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is how I felt after I obtained my undergraduate degree, and I had multiple majors! I think that today’s education system is failing a majority of children, and they end up leaving college with a sheet of paper and a lot of debt, but not much else.

Even in elementary school and high school, the thirst for learning is replaced by the pressure to get good grades and do well on standardized tests. As a tutor, I constantly see students who have no concern for anything except what the correct answer is. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs.

On the other hand, if you take a look at American politics, it seems like as long as you learn how to be greedy and deceitful, you can become very rich. Perhaps if this is a personal life goal, a bellyful of words is all you really need!

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