education is a big waste of time. once people learn how to read and do basic arithmetic in kindergarten, they can take a trip to the library and buy a book for $1 or read books for free and teach themselves all that they need to know. you can even sign up for a library account online and read books online now for free. or use google or youtube. for fields of study that require more than just books, like science, obviously some structure helps in the form of classrooms and expensive lab equipment that multiple people can use. most people who go to school have a little more than a basic grasp of history and literature, after spending two to three decades learning it. so much of school today is about memorizing the most general gloss of all subjects, checking off the right boxes on a test, and then forgetting about everything you were required to learn. rarely do you get your hands dirty. not one day in math class did i step outside the classroom and use trigonometry to measure the height of a tree without climbing up it. instead people spend years of their life learning math that they will never use. and you really can't take care of yourself unless you have a master's degree anymore. so you're not really an adult until age 25 to 30. and it's just a piece of paper that says you're skilled in one field of work. should it really take 25 years to become an expert at something and be able to take care of yourself and start a family? how many people with bachelors degrees can't find work in the field they studied for? even in stem fields? it's a big joke. we wasted the best years of our life sitting in a fluorescent lit office building learning a bunch of stuff we'll never use, being stressed out every single day that we didn't have good enough grades, and after it all we forget most of what we learned, because we don't need it presently. it's a big waste of time.
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