Mark –
College is a wonderful, fun, and rewarding experience for many people who go. However, college doesn’t make you smart, you make yourself smart. Basically, what college teaches you is how to teach yourself. Remember Jack London and how he taught himself.
Hello Elisabeth:
Thank’s very much for the support. Mark Escarcega
Some short yet interesting comments, Mark and Elizabeth.
The fine line between “smart” and “well-educated” comes to mind.
Having spent many years there myself, college definitely requires a person to fend for themselves to a much greater degree than is usually needed while attending grade school.
The way that Jack London is portrayed as having self-educated himself while laboring long hours in the canning industry, seems like it would be appropriately inspirational for you, Mark, – given what you said about your current living situation.
It is true to some extent that college teaches a person how to teach themselves in a “school of hard knocks” kind of way; i.e., most people will fail their college courses, if they don’t learn to do that. However, I don’t think we need college necessarily to learn how to do that: whether it be failing – many of us are quite adept at that – especially, when we are completely out on our own – LOL; or whether it be succeeding – although Jack London did spend a year or two in college, I believe most of his education came far from any classroom.
Loren