This is the best article I've read these last few weeks - about education, signalling and redemption.
Many people play the education game just like this guy did, but find their salvation on the way. There are many opportunities, like when working on his summerjob he was reminded that selfbetterment was the goal, and offered to come to a meeting.
Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way.
If you play education for the signalling, you will get the piece of paper, but what else? Existential emptiness? Feeling of class envy? He is really envious of the pompous folk with the castle and the european car? Can't he strive for anything more???
Learn stuff you love, learn it because you think it is worth your limited time on this earth, and because you will be able to make a good use of it.
Whether there is a meritocracy or not does not really matter, if you can learn and make one around yourself.
> Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way.
I couldn't help but think that he was scamming the reader just as he scams everyone else in the story.
By the end, when sitting down to actually ingest literature, it sounded like the story of redemption is something that The Atlantic would publish so he made redemption part of the story. It wasn't clear that the tiger changed his stripes at all.
Of course, the fact that I made it to the end tells you: I fell for it hook, line and sinker, and I'm just as bad as the rest of the suckers in his story.
Many people play the education game just like this guy did, but find their salvation on the way. There are many opportunities, like when working on his summerjob he was reminded that selfbetterment was the goal, and offered to come to a meeting.
Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way.
If you play education for the signalling, you will get the piece of paper, but what else? Existential emptiness? Feeling of class envy? He is really envious of the pompous folk with the castle and the european car? Can't he strive for anything more???
Learn stuff you love, learn it because you think it is worth your limited time on this earth, and because you will be able to make a good use of it.
Whether there is a meritocracy or not does not really matter, if you can learn and make one around yourself.