anti-study tirade

ever met a really smart AND happy hairdresser?
i haven’t.
but i’m scared I will one day..and it’ll make me sorry for the last seven years of unnecessary education when I could have been perfectly complete, happy and successful without it. as a hairdresser. or a cook. or a rally driver.

doesn’t it ever seem like we’re complicating our lives with too much education?

in fact, forget post-grad education, haven’t we taken it too far as a race when our young need to spend about 20% of their lifespan just catching up with what the specie is upto?
why is an average person required to go through 16 years of schooling? 16 years is 20% of the average lifespan. and we’re talking basic education. (can you imagine a tiger cub spending four of its sixteen years in hunting school?)

isn’t 5 or 6 enough to imbibe necessary lifeskills?
say reading, writing, grammar and a basic introduction to maths?
that sounds about enough to me.
the rest can be discovered outside the formal education system..shakespeare can be discovered in a theatre and geometry need never be discovered ;)
why the stress? why give up a childhood to read about it?

and somewhere, we get so caught in the rat race of information/knowledge that we begin to believe that we need it to be successful and feel smart.

and it’s at this point that the system displays its fatal flaw. it set out to make you ‘smarter’ and self-sufficient but ended up blinding you instead.
made you dependent on it. made you believe you were inadequate without it…

redemption i think, lies in the fact that theres mass blindness out there; we've all become dependent. so if you meet a happy and smart hairdresser, smile - you’re not the only one who got conned :)