Self-education also gives you the power to focus on what you want to learn rather than what the system insists that you must. I mean, how many people have ever used algebra since they left the education sausage machine? X + Y = bollocksπ (pi constant), it always seemed to me.
Young people have their minds filled with so much useless tosh that they will never use and can always learn later if necessary and that’s even without the deluge of alleged ‘facts and information’ that turn out to be disinformation, diversion and downright lies. I see authorities, politicians and parents discussing school budgets, teacher ratios, class sizes and all this stuff, but hardly, if ever, what children and students are actually taught. That is just left to the system to decide and dictate.
I make all these points because of the way that college and university have become a ‘must do’ for so many young people and their parents today. Here we are an expression of All Possibility and yet the mind-numbing process of Little School, Big School, pass exams and go to university is the only possibility for so many. (David Icke)
