Education is the key to success.
Some days ago, I wrote an exam.
Precisely English, and that was the first subject we wrote.
After answering most of the questions, one particular question caught my attention. This was an essay question, and the topic “education is the key to success. Discuss.”
I didn’t even blink at the other topics provided and quickly started thinking about it. After 5–7 minutes of thinking about the topic, I gradually started bringing out points.
Honestly it was a bit hard to put down because everything came it at once. I ended up just going with the flow.
I just wrote.
Now since this was for school(academics), I didn’t think to do a first draft and then edit it later, I just went with the first draft and in truth, it, wasn’t that bad.
It was actually good.
This is where I understood the power and importance of the first draft.
I dread first drafts sometimes, but I can’t avoid them because, it always has to start from zero and this is the fear most people have, “starting from zero.”
This is the reason people use AI to generate text for them. Starting from zero has become such a problem because people believe in writers' block. After trying for 6 to 10 minutes, if ideas don’t come, the writer leaves the table.
It’s almost as if ideas are just supposed to hit every time you sit to think.
Realizing that, everyone starts from zero, even Justin Welsh, gives you that momentum. To think. To write. To evoke emotions.
On to what I wrote in my essay, here’s what I think the topic “education is the key to success.”
For most of my life, education has been thought of as something that is gotten only in schools. As I thought about this, I found it disturbing, but at the same time, that’s what we were made to think.
We can get an education from any activity. From an internship, the mistakes and experiences of others, fun activities...
This ideology of education being tied directly to school is what is pulling some of us back.
I for one, I am interested in the things that are hard for people to study. I enjoy the struggle and satisfaction that comes with learning it.
Realizing that education doesn’t stop or even begin at school is what framed my mind to be able to study almost anything I set my mind to. For me, to get an education, means to learn. Learn from whoever, whenever and, however. It’s all a matter of perspective.
If education were limited only to the boundaries of school, how is it that the world's largest companies are owned by college dropouts?
I’m not asking you to compare yourself to any of these people, but just to think about it. At that time, some decades ago, when a phone wasn’t something a person couldn’t live without, how hard must it have been to build the thing that would revolutionize social interactions.
The definition of education is deeply important in the discussion of this topic.
Education is both the act of teaching knowledge to others and the act of receiving knowledge from someone else.
It is a two-way thing. You always need to be on the learning side if you want to succeed thus verifying the fact that learning never ends. You don’t want to be successful for a while, right?
So, in essence, you might not have gone to school or had that fancy up bringing, but it is up to you to get yourself an education.
Thank you for reading this far.
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PS: The word limit given was 250 words. One of the reasons I love medium is, you can go on and on and on.
