my opinion writing

We are always told to dream big and be spontaneous, but from the moment we can talk, we are sent to school. Where they tell you where to stand, when to talk, and what to think. And 13 years later, after never being able to have an original thought, they set us free into the world. 13 years is a very long time, and then they want you to go to school for atleast 4 more years and pay for it out of your own pocket.

Now college is wonderful thing, dont get me wrong, and education is very important, but the execution of the idea, I think, got a little misconstrued. Maybe its just the way things are taught, people sit in these sometimes up to 300 hundred people lectures and are taught the same things year after year. There's no indivuality and we are still being told how to think.

It's when people jump outside of that box that innovation can really happen. Apple wasn't started because Steve Jobs kept doing what eveyone else thought was perfectly fine. And he didn't learn how to do that by sitting in a classroom, he went out and did it in the real world. The greatest classrom there will ever be is the world.

Not everyone is Steve Jobs though, he probably has one of the most innovative minds that will ever be. Some people just can't breathe near all these people. They need more space so they can grow and decide who they want to be. College is a great thing, but I dont think everyone is nessesarily ment for it. And we shouldn't make it seem like not going to college automatically makes your life inferior to those who do.

I don't think we should be discouraging kids from going to college and we should be ecouraging it, but we shouldn't be acting like its college or nothing. They want you to pay hundreds and thousands dollars to attend and if you don't have the money, grades or some special talent you're kind of screwed.  In other countries college is payed for through taxes, which I think is a much better way of doing things. It may make taxes rise, but if we are really so keen on the idea that everyone needs to go to college to have a sucessful life maybe thats the way to go.

My sister has decided she's not going to go to college. She is going to go live with my grandpa and help him because he recently got his leg amputated. People think she's crazy, she could probably get into a really good college, but instead shes going to live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. But she's doing something that matters more to her. And if she changes her mind she can always go later.

As long as you're doing something that you care about it shouldn't matter where you are. If you're spending your first years out of highschool at harvard or in your dad's auto repair shop.  No one should tell you where to go, or who to be except you.

College is great, it provides you with social skills and a place to find yourself. So go to college if you want, find yourself there. Just don't look down on those who can't or choose not to because its their choice not yours.