There surely are many different forms of education. I do have a degree in Business Admin but after trying realized the office environment wasn't for me and ended up being a bicycle messenger in 4 different cities. And so very happy. Luckily I had help from my mother during school and I worked every holiday otherwise there was little other way to attend university in USA because of the price of education. That said I've met so many people full of knowledge that never attended university and those that did that seem so devoid of practical knowledge. I lived in Poland where the administrative assistants in corporations had their Masters and could speak at least 3 languages. University was free there. So degrees for me are basically pieces of paper that some employers require to get a certain job. Later in life I became a teacher and learned as I went. My conclusion is that if university is free and you can afford to attend then degrees are excellent. Surely they make your options greater. If you have to pay and end up massively in debt before even joining the work force, the choice isn't an easy one. This system creates a situation of workers having jobs they hate only to pay off the debt. The choice of a career isn't easy at the age of 18 or before... Education should be that. Educating the youth about everything. Not job training.
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Yeah totally agree - it should be more than job training. It should also support us to find and fulfil our passions, too. I don't feel passionate about teaching anymore, and wish I'd been helped to find something that I was passionate about - writing, the environment, herbalism, naturopathy - and now I can't afford to study again, and self study won't lead me to cash flow.
A bicycle courier sounds dreamy right now, or a delivery driver. Sounds just much more simple than teaching!
Yes my feeling about a job has always been I would do it for free. Otherwise it's for the money which unless in desperate times I can't justify as a reason. I was a landscaper just after uni which I also enjoyed. I teach as well but stopped in schools because of the atmosphere of limiting a child's dream rather than supporting them to do whatever they want in life... I was a delivery driver in high school actually which also was fun. Sitting in one place all day is not fun for me at all. Teaching in schools ended up feeling like being in prison for me mentally and physically. Of course we are lucky enough to be able to stop and get out. If a child wants to study philosophy society should support it. Perhaps that's the issue today. All of the great minds end up on Wall Street scheming how to make more money or how to create a new drug for the pharmaceutical industry rather than following their dreams... The beauty of "manual" labor is that you save your mind for yourself :)