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How about a CHOICE of what you want, rather than what should be thrown at you?
Steve Jobs stated it was being booted from college that enabled him to take what interested him, and thereby helped on his path. Being given something where people say "this is useful, do this," precludes what we internally may already have as greatness.
Some may say..."Well what about the aimless wanderers who need guidance?" Those people might not need guidance IF they'd had the chance to be free flowing people who were able to choose their path. Much discontent originates in people who feel alienated from everyday society, a society that says "you're useful and worthy, you're not useful and you're worthless." There's alot more SQUARE pegs trying to NAIL round holes (pun intended) than there are perfect fits going around.
The bigger question, in the GRAND scheme of life is...
What's useful NOW and in the future, were you to take classes? What can be expanded upon?
Knowing facts is easy, and all most people know are FACTS. Knowing practical application and usages of computers is more FACTS than anything. Anyone CAN learn facts over time. We as human beings think we've done so much because we can JAM more facts that become obsolete in short-time, and are merely jeopardy questions then. Yet, we can't relate, or profit by these facts, despite HOW factual people are.
If I meet a stranger, honestly, it isn't the FACTS they read in a book, but maybe the high class, high level education they received. And it wouldn't be that a foreigner speaks Italian, or 7 different languages, it's their character and the drive to accomplish such things that impresses me. I have a cousin who speaks more than 3 now, and going for more, at only 22. I'm impressed that she goes for it, and she, having travelled, brings alot of great insight and dicussion to the table, not regurgitated facts that rank her in some pecking order.
Blah, throw facts out, that's all HS is anyways. And the SAT is one examination on FACT-based learning, without much practical application. I bumped up my own SAT figures just by memorizing vocab words. One kid scored 1600 on his SATS, and on dress up day for school, he wore his mother's clothes, so being a GENIUS isn't all it's cracked up to be when he was a walking insane asylum. A kid I knew who nailed between 1200 and 1300 and used to carry pounds and pounds of books and backpacks ended up working at the local cinema after college and hs. How impressive are these FACTs and degrees we learn, when people, as fish, have no concept of the fish bowl they live in?
Read: "the Stellar man" or "the way of the peaceful warrior" amongst other good, introspective books.
Learning, philosophically, is about awakening, opening up, and becoming enlightened. It isn't about INSTALLING the masses with the best, most useful programs for their long-term viability as economic units, although that's what most of us are.
Take what makes you feel alive and happy, and I'm sure you'll find a way to live. Obviously knowing about the nurturing of assets and utilization of liabilities is helpful, but not mandatory if you wouldn't like it. Speaking more languages helps the brain expand it's awareness, as some languages have many words for 1 thing, whereas we in English may not say it at all. Learning to be handy with tools is a creative and interactive skill. Art expands thinking possibilities. And humanities speak to the soul, through painting, music, art, literature, etc. All are viable. With respect to degrees, where there's a will, there's a way. Some degrees are easier to find money with because they're the backbone of this interlocked society, but other's should be followed because it makes you happy.
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