"A college degree is one of the most blatant forms of oppression"
What’s really relevant? Is it more useful to spend your life climbing up the academic ladder, getting countless graduate degrees validating your academic worth, or immersing yourself into the world and learning things that no class will cover? The obsession with “name brands” takes away from the human focus. People put themselves in a lifetime of debt to go the “name brand” schools and learn about great people and how they lived their live. This path seems to guarantee some form of a successful future….success by the “American” standard. But success isn’t something that can’t be measured on a customary rubric. Success is an individual journey but it seems that we take the formal, nationally accepted path to our own success.
Is college really the answer to a bright future? It is the only way that you will learn, and become intelligent? Is the goal to become as smart as you can, or to become smart enough to make money? The obsession with college almost seems to come back that notion of personal celebrity. “So, what is it that you do?”…”It doesn’t matter I went to Harvard”. People graduate from “brand name schools” and don’t know anything. I’m not knocking these schools at all, but this is a fact in any college.
A college degree is one of the most blatant forms of oppression. You spend foolish money to learn a bunch of abstract ideologies. Then you apply for a job, and they tell you that everything you learned over the last four years was bullshit so they put you in their “training” program and hire you anyway. Then it’s that same degree that they deemed worthless that dictates how much money they are willing to pay you. Ironic
We need to learn to valid success by our own measuring stick, and focusing on educating ourselves, but opening our minds to new places, cultures, and ideas. We need to step outside of our comfort level and put ourselves in positions of great responsibility. This is how you learn, grow, and mature.
Just some food for thought......
*I wasn't able to articulate this point as well I wanted to due to my concentration on the CAVS MAGIC game. My apologies
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7 Responses to 'College Smollege!'
Comment by RecruitZero-SR.
I feel this son! College is a scam if you really think about it, but it is a game that most people have to play to make it in the world. Jobs look at you as close to worthless with no degree and the degree of worth is what degree you have attained. Sad that it is like that, but hey sometimes you gotta play the game in life.
Comment by J.D..
yeah man, glad I had a scholarship..lol,,,good looks on the logo banner again...people dig it
Comment by G Torres.
Another way to divide and conquer, degrees are definitely overrated but it does allow for progress in a world where status is determined by who we know, the piece of paper a college gives us, and the income bracket we fall into. If we as a whole learned to educate ourselves we would be better off but who would hire us? The system that is in place allows for people to continue to live in patterns and keep the average joe opressed. The system in place works perfectly to the advantage of those in power. Do you agree with this or disagree? Magic or Cavs who do you pick to win tonight?
Comment by G Torres.
Also if the system that we have in place wasn't there, based on what credentials would people get jobs? Something has to seperate people right?
Comment by Unknown.
I can certainly understand where you are coming from. As a recent graduate and with the economic climate as it it, going to that "brand name school" or any school, doesn't seem like a good option.
Comment by Courtney.
i dont completely agree... i think the idea of the degree itself can be oppressive, but at the same time college in itself is a learning/growing experience outside of the classroom as much as it is inside of it. If you can't find a valuable experience out of college, you're probably that way in most situations.
Comment by Twt.
I laughed out loud at this- I graduate in 4 days from Ohio State. For the most part, this is true and I've said the same things for the past 4 years. There is the other side of the coin, however: college has its benefits; critical thinking is developed for example. Regardless, this is a well-written article and this blog seems relevant to people like me, keep up the good work
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