Sunday 8 May 2016

Suli Breaks - Why I Hate School But Love Education

So you want to get a degree... Why?
Let me tell you what society will tell you:
Increases your chances of getting a job,
Provides you an opportunity to be successful,
Be a lot less stressful,
Education is the key.

Suli Breaks' text made me think about how education, and consequently how society is organized. Suli wants you to think about why is it you’re studying. He wants you to think about yourself and your life… What society says has become the model for our behaviour, so if it says that we need a degree to be successful–well, we’ll try to get a degree because that’s what we have to do. Society is telling us that if you get a college degree, you will get a nice job. If you get a nice job, you will make a lot of money. If you make a lot of money, you will be happy. However, it is not that simple. While these causes certainly do help the reach the outcomes, there is more than one way to achive them. In other words, it is a metaphor saying education is the way to success.

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