Truth of the education system laid bare - it was created with the intention of producing not dangerous, profound thinkers who question everything, but tools and factory workers who do everything they are told to do like mechanical robots for the profits of those in power.
Half way through this article, I sent it to my friends, my parents, my sister, and felt like sharing it with everyone; because now I realise why I haven’t truly learned everything I think I am learning, why I feel like school hasn’t taught me everything I’m supposed to know, and how deeply the world’s education system is lacking.
As a student, the ideas expressed in this article, and most articles part of this newsletter, have changed the way I think and perceive. I’m super grateful to have come across this, and hope more people get the opportunity to read and apply this!
When a person starts accumulating all the possible tools for building a building, it'll never be enough. NEVER! And one day the person will die with many (not all) tools and no building built.
So one should ask questions to themselves - what is my aim? Is it to gather all the tools to start building someday (someday leads to a town called nowhere- Tony Robbins) or is to build the building?
“To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.” - Emerson
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Truth of the education system laid bare - it was created with the intention of producing not dangerous, profound thinkers who question everything, but tools and factory workers who do everything they are told to do like mechanical robots for the profits of those in power.
Half way through this article, I sent it to my friends, my parents, my sister, and felt like sharing it with everyone; because now I realise why I haven’t truly learned everything I think I am learning, why I feel like school hasn’t taught me everything I’m supposed to know, and how deeply the world’s education system is lacking.
As a student, the ideas expressed in this article, and most articles part of this newsletter, have changed the way I think and perceive. I’m super grateful to have come across this, and hope more people get the opportunity to read and apply this!
A very good and profound read!
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When a person starts accumulating all the possible tools for building a building, it'll never be enough. NEVER! And one day the person will die with many (not all) tools and no building built.
So one should ask questions to themselves - what is my aim? Is it to gather all the tools to start building someday (someday leads to a town called nowhere- Tony Robbins) or is to build the building?
Craig you are full of Profound Ideas! The ultimate autodidact and author of inspiration!
“To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.” - Emerson
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