There are so many people, and systems in this country that need a complete overhaul. It's like having an ugly outdated kitchen. Sometimes you just need to gut it, knock down some walls and start over. Same goes for this country's education system. What a joke! Too many rules and regulations to be followed, so many years and money must be invested into acquiring an education so that one might be taken seriously with-in the job market. What a shame it is that if I wanted to teach my own native language English as a second language, here in the US, I would need to obtain a degree, a minimum of fours year and study an extensive amount of other subjects that I am not interested in, not good at, will fail the class and not only that, will not use at all! But, I could go to just about any other country and and be an ESL teacher without a degree.
My point is, they need to change a whole lot of things here.
In fact, if you ask me there is too much prestige given to those who are able to obtain a college education. No offense to anyone out there who has one. Kudos for doing something that I am not capable of accomplishing myself. :) However, I feel that just because someone has a degree in the area of his/her choice does not mean that that person is any more capable of performing their job any better than the next guy who just might be...God forbid, "self-educated" on the subject.
So many things are wrong with-in the school system in general. However I think that a large part of this issue belongs on the heads of the parents. It's my opinion that for so many, education is undervalued with-in the home. The lack of putting a value on the necessity of a great education and ability to become acceptable to a decent university , leads the child into a false sense of security, bringing with it a lack of desire one so desperately needs to focus on their education. Poor families can't afford the high price of Universities, others just don't place an importance on it at all, others are too ignorant and don't have the mental capacity to be a part of it, and then we have the rich ones who whether they care for it or not, they go because they can afford it and their rich college graduate parents placed education on a pedestal, making it a must, not just an "if we have the money, or if you want to". I wonder how different things would be if we had not been lied to. Just been plain out honest and said, if you take this path you will be just "okay" or you take this other path and you will be "successful". The truth hurts way less than the cover-up.
That age old saying that i've heard time and again, that one does not need a college education to become successful, was obviously written by someone with out one, who just happened to get lucky. I think in the past this type of thinking was not wrong exactly, but was just was more achievable at that time. Regardless it was still suffocating the individual with a false sense of security instead of being honest. The sad thing is that it is usually many many years before one realizes that his airways have become restricted and by that time it is too late to right the wrongs and no point in trying, as a good chunk of his life has already come and gone. It becomes much easier to remain stagnant and with-in constant reach of his oxygen tank.
We must understand this type of thinking does not, and cannot apply to the world in which we live in today. There are too many rules, regulations and political correctness. We have politically corrected ourselves into the toilet. Too afraid of what might happen if we really say what we think. We ourselves have created a society in which we have made it IMpossible to NOT rely on what we can be given by others, and what others think and decide we are deserving of. We no longer have the ability to choose and create the person we want to be. We must redirect our wants and aspirations to follow a different path, one that just might have less "red tape" and regulations. Someone else's path entirely as we must adhere to the regulations and restrictions that have oppressed us and are slowly suffocating us to death.
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