Education is designed to teach you as little as possible. The overwhelming deluge of information is intended to drown anyone who stops to smell the roses. There is not enough time to understand all the content and process it into knowledge. Not having time to think forces you to download your ideas from others. And this is deliberate. You’re not meant to comprehend any of it. You’re mean to rote learn and regurgitate torrents of incoherent rubbish on command under a stopwatch. This is the object of schooling.

This is an exercise in compliance, repeated and conditioned until you lose the ability for independent thinking. Schooling punishes enthusiasm and rewards obedience. Education is about showing up and motioning through the movements without question or resistance until you are domesticated with a low-resolution mind.

This is little to do with learning. Leaning is about questions and answers, not propagating someone else’s ideas. Repeating what you’re told is not intelligence. It’s nothing to be proud of.

There are people who believe that memorizing formulas and repeating algorithms constitutes actual thinking. These people really believe they are engaging in thinking when they do this. Imagine spending 4 years listening to the inane gibberish or a university and actually believing you learned something.

If you are willing to play these silly games, you can climb the ladder. For the NPCs who excel at these dog tricks is the reward of writing their egos a blank cheque as titles and accolades are piled on and they graduate into a world of management and system maintenance. And these people do function. Many of them as high-functioning. But that’s all they do; function. They do not think.

> tl;dr you dropped $150,000 on a fah-king education you could have gotten for $1.50 in late charges at the public library.