What is the meaning of education? I would say that is to acquire knowledge to make money, but there is not the case. The education is educating us to be someone's slave. Through completing assignments and attending classes daily, an outstanding student mirrors the qualities desired in a good employee. However, what we need is money but not being as slaves.
Furthermore, At least 50% of the stuffs in school are useless for non-major students like chemistry, history and etc... Some may say that the knowledge can be indirectly applied to our life and we can make use of the knowledge to learn other stuffs. OK, why can't school just teach us investment? Those can also be indirectly and directly applied our life, and we can also make use of the knowledge to learn other stuffs.
Today we are lucky to attend IS101 which the skills we learn from can be directly applied to our work but not only indirectly make use of it, like learning how to merge mails, making good slideshows and using Microsoft suite. And the most important thing is that we meet an excellent professor and gain his attitude from him.
Congratulations on achieving the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert distinction, Tsz, that is above-and-beyond what is required by IS101 ^_^
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I'm very glad to hear you found the skills you learned in IS101 useful and honored that you see me as excellent and gained my attitude of always go above-and-beyond :-)
Congratulations on achieving MOS 'Expert" level Tsz! I agree that financial stability is undoubtedly an important aspect of life, but education should be seen as a tool for personal growth, empowerment, and the pursuit of knowledge, rather than solely as a means to earn money.
ReplyDeleteHit that MOS Homerun Tsz! I know you will. What people find useful and useless, I believe, is relative in this case. Some people have no interest in investing or advanced digital literacy. Something to think about, which most of us all don't is that history(good or bad, the full truth and eschewed facts)does repeat itself and we tend as a society to forget it. Things tend to repeat and memories tend to last 50-75 years. Knowledge is power and having a narrowed view of the world limits you. Especially if your focus is on investing.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You worked hard and achieved something pretty stellar. There is a fine dance between work, life and education. Often it is super hard to balance it all out. I find my self in the work portion of life a lot at the moment!
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