Basically I’ve determined that publicly funded education teaches you things the world thinks you should know. College/University teaches you what you think you should know (which at least is your choice). And the internet teaches you what you actually need to know.
Which sure is muddled in with useless shit for the hell of it. But at least the ratio of useful to useless shit can be balanced or even positively one-sided on the internet if you choose. Whereas really, all public school taught me is that I dislike most ‘normal’ people and my self-worth is balanced with how good my marks are (determined by if my teacher likes me), and if I’ve managed to somehow understand the system of socializing to make people like me (determined by fucked if I know even now).
I’d rather spend hours reading useless things online because they make me happy, then spend another minute in an English class being told that I’m interpreting a poem wrong because it disagrees with the professors interpretation.
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