Unless You Are Bill Gates, Get Off Your A** and Finish School First
Although I'd rather talk about TV, I was talking about schools with someone earlier today. It's pretty blurry now, but here are two points from the conversation:
1) This person wishes to homeschool her children.
2) She doesn't think uni degrees are that important.
She said Bill Gates was a dropout.
.....
Alright, I'm a study-hard-go-to-uni-it's-good-for-you supporter, but we know having a degree does not
1) make you suddenly smart.
2) guarantee you a bank account balance of more than RM15.
3) give you an automatic ability to be abetter kind person.
4) magically transform you into a happy person with a good life.
So I may be wrong, but what kind of homeschooling are we talking about here? What kind of teacher and syllabus and environment and reason behind this choice? Doesn't traditional school exist for a pretty good reason?
Yes, we should choose, take risks and pursue our dreams. And if we do have the opportunity and resources to pursue education at the same time, perhaps we shouldn't undermine the idea just because 'Bill Gates was a dropout'?
Are parents who work hard to send their kids to school, so education can change their lives -- or people who really want to go to college but are financially constrained or got turned down, then work again for it, only harder -- just wasting their time?
So, what's the plan then after the first week of this homeschool?
(Please don't shoot me.)
(And Bill Gates, by the way, dropped out of Harvard to work on this tiny computer-thing project called Microsoft. Totally relatable.)
1) This person wishes to homeschool her children.
2) She doesn't think uni degrees are that important.
She said Bill Gates was a dropout.
.....
Alright, I'm a study-hard-go-to-uni-it's-good-for-you supporter, but we know having a degree does not
1) make you suddenly smart.
2) guarantee you a bank account balance of more than RM15.
3) give you an automatic ability to be a
4) magically transform you into a happy person with a good life.
So I may be wrong, but what kind of homeschooling are we talking about here? What kind of teacher and syllabus and environment and reason behind this choice? Doesn't traditional school exist for a pretty good reason?
Yes, we should choose, take risks and pursue our dreams. And if we do have the opportunity and resources to pursue education at the same time, perhaps we shouldn't undermine the idea just because 'Bill Gates was a dropout'?
Are parents who work hard to send their kids to school, so education can change their lives -- or people who really want to go to college but are financially constrained or got turned down, then work again for it, only harder -- just wasting their time?
So, what's the plan then after the first week of this homeschool?
(Please don't shoot me.)
(And Bill Gates, by the way, dropped out of Harvard to work on this tiny computer-thing project called Microsoft. Totally relatable.)
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