Hard News: The Demon E-Word
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Kowhai, exactly. I guess what I'm saying is that it's really easy to get caught in the trap of thinking the way you did stuff was the best way. I emotionally feel that people miss out on a lot when they don't get what I got, but then I don't know any different either, do I?
I sought a general education mainly on the advice of my parents, and because their arguments seemed cogent. But they grew up in quite a different world, where unemployment was virtually unknown, where the kiwi dollar was worth heaps, where they paid you to go to university, and where nowhere near as many people did so it was a much more valuable thing.
Furthermore, educating yourself, if that is something you are capable of doing, was much harder, the resources were much worse, the options fewer.
Also there was the whole attitude of getting a steady job, which is still of great appeal to many, but people like me actually feel more security in just being highly skilled and bouncing from one job to the next. I've lived the life of corporate climbing, with it's endless promises of promotions and pay rises that always seem to take way longer than they said, and I found it a miserable way to be. I'd much rather just renegotiate the entire terms of my employment any time it's starting to suck.
Hence my self-skepticism. Is general education becoming an anachronism? Is it really something that, as in the past, only the truly wealthy could afford? Are kids smarter than we give them credit for?
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Thanks! I'm struck down with flu today...
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