College Response

The world of education in which we live today is an economic one. And just like the Confucian systems of the China of old, is not there expressly, or even inherently, for education. It is for the continuation of a system. We sent through a factory line of school pre-k prepares you for kinder garden. Kinder garden prepares you for grade school. Grade school prepares you for high school and high school prepares you for college. And college prepares you for...? College prepares us for a world that no longer exists. We are loaded, stuffed, packed, ignited and shot from a cannon into a safety net that is no longer there. Our world is no longer one of factory lines, it is a more fluid and unpredictable place. Nowhere in our education system is "teaching" actually emphasized. All that is emphasized is "preparation," preparation for the next step in our "education," not our actual development, not our learning. I am in high school now, with only two more years to go. I have been through all they could prepare me for. So yes, I am prepared for college. I have made it through, but I will make my own decisions and my own path. Fuck the cannon, Fuck the net. Let the world chew me up and spit me out. Let the world kick my ass in a bar fight I only got into because I was too cocky and stupid. Let me limp back to college battered and bruised. That way I came back, not because they told me something, but because what they told me was the truth. And I learned that, on my own. I'll leave my tribe and spend years alone, and I'll fight the mammoths naked... Win or lose.