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How to Learn More for Less Money
We Need to Continually Educate Ourselves and It Doesn’t Have to Cost A Lot
As I have gotten older, I have started to wonder about the formal education system. Does it really help prepare people for life? Does it build into their passions and desire for knowledge? Or is it keeping people from really knowing who they are and what they want out of life?
After all, I spent six years getting a degree in college that I don’t even use now. The only use this degree has given me is access to jobs that required a four-year degree. Any four-year degree.
Other than that, what was the use for six years of life I could have been learning what I am learning now and tens of thousands of dollars I could have put toward that learning instead of a university which keeps asking for more and more.
Maybe, this is a cynical view of the education system. But the problem for me is that I was told I was a terrible writer by college professors.
And yet, I published a book and have written hundreds of thousands of words since then. In fact, I love writing. I did in college, even when I was told I was bad at it.
And thankfully, my six years of a college education hasn’t burnt me out on learning. I love to learn and understand new things…
