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





You made it yay!

TLDR: The main point here that just going to post-secondary is not the trump card to success, but that learning about life and growing as a person is. (Though it is certainly not a trump card, those don't exist).

Also for those of you who would question the validity of the quotes used. I would like to inform you that it's the words I care about not so much the person:

Because it's still right even if they never said it.

Till we meet again,
Your Humble Scribe,