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Anonymous asked: now you say it was foolish of you to drop out of school? i thought you were anti all that system and organized education and degree bullshit. you think you will be dissatisfied with life if you don't have a degree?

I didn’t drop out of school. I did those diplomas on the side while I was still in high school.

Anonymous asked: I don't mean this in a hostile way at all .. but while I agree with a lot of those points about the education system, I still think it's a bit of a generalisation to paint those who get good grades, etc. as rude, uninspired zombies who can't think for themselves. I love learning, myself, which is one of the reasons I make the effort to go to university every day. It's not a bad place, and while being there is not the only way to learn, for many it is an opportunity to do so. I celebrate that.

Dude, don’t get me wrong. I value knowledge and education, I’m passionate about learning, and I always got good grades when I was at school. I make a conscious effort to absorb something new and worthwhile each day, whether that be through reading books, watching documentaries, or learning from encounters and experience. So I understand where you’re coming from, but this isn’t what the post was about. There was never anything suggesting that those who got good grades were rude, uninspired zombies who couldn’t think for themselves. It didn’t once say that university was a bad place either. The post was simply about the unhealthy focus placed on getting good grades, and what getting good grades was generally about. There is far too much pressure surrounding this matter and for all the wrong reasons. I think you can agree with me on this. Namaste.

Why I hated school and why I dropped out of uni

• Your ability to memorise mostly useless things
• Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
• Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
• Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable

What grades do not determine..

• Your intelligence
• Your creativity
• Your emotional capabilities
• Your likeliness to succeed
• Whether you’re a good person

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I hate it when people who go to uni ask me if I go to uni too, and I’m like, nah, I dropped out after my first semester.. And they always think I’m joking, but I’m NOT. 

Then they assume I’m going back this year, but again, no, I’m not. 

Then they look at me as though I’m an unbelievably stupid nobody when I’m actually REALLY FUCKING SMART. Fuck you. I am NOT sorry you put yourself through another 6 years of regret purely because you still need the schooling system to feel as though you’re doing something with your life.

The worst lie society has told children is that you need a diploma to be educated or to be taken seriously. There are millions of children on this earth without any formal education that can tell you more about the consequences and reality of the political choices we have made as a collaboration, yet there are only a few hundred men with all sorts of diplomas and merits making delusional and ignorant decisions on behalf of those other billion men, women, children and animals. A diploma means quite a lot to some, but it should never mean everything. We make the education system what it is, it does not make us. We are whole people capable of knowing right from wrong just by being loving human beings and we must demand to be taken seriously and to be heard.

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