The Death of Education and Other Unfortunate Events

By Erin Lin on July 30, 2014

The problem with our education system does not derive completely from incompetent teachers, poorly structured curriculum or too much or too little test taking classes comprised of those tedious “fill in the oval completely in number two pencil” instructions.

In the college environment, the death of education comes from education itself.

There is a specific mindset of what needs to be done in college. Aside from the late nights with your buddies at the bar eyeing the cute waitress with blonde curls, cramming for the physics exam you barely went to lecture for, or drinking your sorrows away with your best friend, a six pack, we have forgotten why we are here. We fall into a routine of what our education asks of us: listen, learn, study and repeat.

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We venture out with our degrees after four short years and it isn’t until you hop onto the same train as everyone else does at six thirty in the morning and arrive at your office waiting for your lunch break to suddenly appear that you come to this deadening realization of what you don’t want.

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Our education system is exactly what it says it is: a structure that teaches and instructs us yet proclaims itself to be flexible enough for students to discover their passions and have creative outbursts. The problem arrives when we follow that format and we go into the mindset that this is what college is. We settle and become comfortable with our classes, our schedules, the frequent trips to the bars, someone’s twenty-first party that you have no recollection of, that one night stand you terribly regret, but can’t shake off your mind.

We forget to want more. What do you want? Where are you going? And most importantly, what are you here for?

http://q101.com/2014/06/wanna-get-better-better-better/

You don’t need to know the answers, that’s not the point. The point is that we let ourselves believe that the whole point is to not know and to ride out these four years calmly searching and passively reaching.

Grab it by the reins, shake it and give it a twirl and fight for why you are here. Be curious and crave more than what your education provides for you. Don’t fall into “this is what it is,” but rather, “I am not satisified.” So instead of passionately wanting, we invest our time and our energy into obligatory duties and abide to perfunctory chores to receive our promised degree.

Be bold, be brave and believe in the possibility of wanting more.

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