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And of course you knew what a passport was, you are an immigrant from Afghanistan. Your background and mine are totally different. Most immigrants to the West worship school, it's one of the big reasons they immigrate in the first place.
my throat hurts, its hard to swallow, and my body feels like i got a serious ass beating.
A few things...-You talk about making assumptions... you spoke on the social atmosphere, so it was more of a misunderstanding on my part rather than some bullshit assumption... but where did you get the idea that I'm an immigrant from Afghanistan? I was born here... yet I'm still big on school and education... as are many others who were born here. So that also had nothing to do with me knowing what a passport was before I graduated high school. -Props on your accomplishments-I can attest to the fact that high school is a fucking joke here in the U.S... but having gone to high school here and now attending university... I can tell you first-hand that it's a completely different story when you get to the college level... I have learned so much in these last 3+ years... and it has probably been the best overall experience of my life. But then again, I attend a pretty good school, dormed my first two years, and now live right next to campus... so my experience is most likely a lot different from whatever experience you had with post-high school education... I'm assuming you took some courses at a community college... I took a few of those during my high school years, and it didn't seem any different than high school to me. It all comes down to how much value you place upon it... but to claim that opening up some books at the library is the same as obtaining a college education is ridiculous. There's more to an education than just a mere memorization of facts and details. - Lastly, I want to comment on what you said here:"When I was 17, the only thing you could get me to read outside of school was hip-hop magazines and the sports page. But my first year after graduating, I read dozens of books on my own, and in the beginning, I had to look in the dictionary every few sentences"That has nothing to do with school. The fact that you didn't read anything but magazines outside of school isn't the school's fault. You said yourself that people can learn anything they want with some "motivation"... so maybe that's where the problem was laying with you. In addition, if it wasn't for you even getting that bullshit education you did up until high school... you probably wouldn't have been able to read and understand most of the shit you read and learned after high school. You learned how to read at school, right? By the way with all the reading you do on your own you should be able to spell simple words correctly... I mean you see them all the time... not knowing the difference between "of" and "have" really brings your comprehension of those readings to question.
Quote from: J @ M @ L on March 09, 2008, 11:52:48 PMYeah, a college education is useful because you earn a degree that will help you land a job. Have you attended, or are you attending college right now? I honestly don't think you can equate a college education to popping open an encyclopedia. In my opinion there's more to a formal education than simply obtaining information. Fuck school (*bumps Dead Prez "They Schools")I try to stay away from school as much as possible. Every once in a while I forget how bad it really is, and go back... but I am quickly reminded.I have a few certificates from school. I have a CDL (Commercial Drivers Liscence). I have a CNA (Certified Nurse Assistant) and a CMT (Certified Medication Technician). I also have a lot of useless credit hours that have amounted to nothing. I've wasted time, wasted money, passed a few here, flunked a few there... and it was all straight up BULLSHIT! And the last time I even liked the social atmosphere of school was jr. high.And anything I learned in school I could of learned much better outside of school. Coming out of high school I didn't even know what a passport was... I only started learning when I got out of high school (public schools are nothing more than government schools by the way) and started making my own moves.
Yeah, a college education is useful because you earn a degree that will help you land a job. Have you attended, or are you attending college right now? I honestly don't think you can equate a college education to popping open an encyclopedia. In my opinion there's more to a formal education than simply obtaining information.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran