Is Education the Key?

So, I've received another question from my supremely benevolent leader.

After watching Darryll Amoako, or as he is better known, Suli Breaks' controversial video "Why I Hate School But Love Education". We were asked to write "...a brief and insightful post..." on the subject, which I am obligated to write as a pupil, but also as someone who will soon be entering that system.

(We all know it's not going to be brief)

So the question is:

 Does a Post Secondary Education = a Positive Successful Existence?

Does a BA mean you are Benefactor of Altruism?

Does a B.Sc make you a Bringer of Social Change?

And does a Master or a Doctorate bring you Misery or does it Disillusion you?

I like to think that I have an interesting outlook on things. You see back in the late 90s early 2000's Canada's economy was slowing down (I should point out this is largely based off of an article on Vice News that I cannot find for the love me of me.), so the lovely talking heads began debating about what they were going to do about the loss of jobs. So they come up with the idea of a, knowledge-based economy, the idea being that people would go through post-secondary education and create businesses. Effectively trying to turn the workforce into a giant "Think Tank" if you will.

Now I shouldn't have to tell you why that didn't work, given the fact that; unemployed, indebted, financially inept and most of all tired students, are not gonna be in the mood (or have the credit) to start those businesses. Which has pseudo left us here (I say this because in all likelihood hood it isn't the only one).

This has left senior secondary students at there own Shibuya Crosswalk, with many ways to go and plenty of people to go with. 

I find that through out all the time I have been in school, I've learned things sure. I could explain to you the forces on an object as it flies through the air, how water is the single most important molecule in your body. I could even explain to you why The Wars, by Timothy Findley is an incredibly powerful novel even in this day in age. Even so I have I really learned anything? I couldn't tell you how a mortgage works (properly), or how to create a perfect budget or how to help people.

I think Mark Twain put it the best:

It's a very interesting idea, to separate one's Education from one's Schooling. This in essence, my feeling on the subject.  Schooling has really become nothing more but a membership card that gives you the chance for more opportunities. Education meanwhile has become more and more about life experience, and being able to formulate your own opinions.

To give a definite answer (we all know this has gone on long enough). I think that education is key to success, but that there is a distinct difference between education and schooling. Schooling what we pull out of textbook, and study to that we can preform and succeed at a profession, however education is the knowledge that we gain about life, how to be a person, how to deal with and communicate with others and find happiness. Those are certainly things necessary to succeed at anything, and that is something that you don't need to go to school for.






And as a man wiser than I said:
"It is the mark of an educated man,
who can entertain a thought,
without accepting it."
-Aristole

The Inaugral Post (Not much eh?)

 **WARNING REQUIRED NONSENSICAL BLOG PREAMBLE**

            So today I started my first day of Grade 12+, and as fate would have it I was lucky enough to be able to end off my day with the Writers Craft course. And as fate would have (albeit was not entirely unexpected) our lovely teacher Mrs. Reidel asked, after the creation of our personal blogs for the course, to check our the Course blog where she left us some day one questions. And here I was thinking I was going to get away from this scot-free.


            But like all homework it poses an age old question, so I guess I'll see to answering it (jokes of course, I am far too big a goody-two shoes for that). The question itself isn't all that difficult either. It's simply wondering "What is your intention for this course" and "What do you think writing skills could offer you". Not hard questions to say the least; you'd actually have to try and screw it up do get it wrong.

Actual answers:
             As for the answers: My intentions for the course are to firstly to work through some of the expanse of the ideas I have in my head and actually put them onto paper. Rather than simply run through them for the umpteenth time in my head so that I don't forget them. As well as to try and expand the tools I have in my writing tool kit, for personal and official/academic/generally prim and proper writing. When it comes to what writing skills could offer, that's a pile of possibility. On account of how necessary English and writing are related to the most basic parts of human interaction. So other than the typical improved grammar and quality of essay and things in that vein. I believe that writing skills could help me with communication skills, by working with different styles of writing with different nuances, I think that it could improve my ability to communicate verbally with peers and others.

Till next time,
Chris Nesbitt [Your Humble Scribe]