Category: Education

Words Hold Tremendous Power Over Us. How Is It We Give Them Such Incredible Meaning?

Words can be the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end. They can be beautifully elagant or disasterously repugnant. They can help you obtain love of the one you fancy most or they can destroy the foundations of relationships long established. They can employ you and empower you. They can give cause to fire you or fight you. They can enlighten you and educate you. They can depress you and demoralize you. They can start and end wars. You can live or die by the choice of words you choose. They can be hateful or loving. The same words can have different meanings in different context. They can offend and be hard to comprehend. They can be supportive, complimentary, and congratulatory. You can use them to commend or reprimand. They can condesend and cast doubt. They’re both humorous and sad. You can use words to express joy and elation. They can be hurtful or pleasurable. You can use a depressing dialog one filled with sorrow and pain. Or you can use an uplifting optimistic dialog filled with positivity and hope. You will ruminate over them and dissect them. Say the wrong thing and you may pay for it for life, or with life. Say the right thing and it can give you an abundance in that same life.

Singular words can offend whole cultures, races, genders, sexual orientations. N word, C word, F word, B word. List the alphabet a to z and you’ll probably find a word for every corresponding letter that will offend another in some shape or form.

Recently the director of Guardians Of The Galaxy was fired from his post for derogatory comments made in jest over a decade ago. Those comments have since been deleted. It was a misguided attempt at humor that does not represent the director to this day. But words can transend time, written word will be around long after your gone and now if they’re posted on the internet they may very well survive through any and all effort of removal. And the words the director once uttered have since cost him his job. To the dismay of his co-workers and many others who have worked with him through the years. It’s a valuable lesson to learn, so valuable it may cost this man millions.

Always be careful about what you say and who you say it too. Be slow to cast judgement. Think before speak. Ask yourself of how it will effect others. If we can speak or write we will all make mistakes at some point, it’s human nature. Be swift to forgive those who express remorse. Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the most important ones. And it often comes through your own trial and error. Be patient with yourself and others. Remember the saying sticks and stones may break my bones but words…well words just might be the reason for those sticks and stones and broken bones. Chose to use them wisely.



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The Idea That A College Degree Is Necessary For Success Is Right Up There On Par With Scamming A Senior Citizen Or Robbing The Blind.

What a brilliant racket colleges have at their disposal. Convince a generation of kids and parents that they can’t succeed in life without a college degree. Than in actuality set them up for failure in life, when they have a mountain of insurmountable debt because of said degree. It’s the ultimate irony.

These are mostly just kids coming out of high school hardly knowing any better. We go on believing that this amazing piece of paper called a diploma is our golden ticket. We can take it anywhere in our field of study and get that high paying career right out the gate. Meanwhile most kids and some adults with that expensive degree in hand, that they just purchased. Financed through years of their time, as well as banks and the federal government loans. Cant find work in their suggested field. Many college graduates usually find menial work that does not require any degree what so ever. All the while colleges become more wealthy off this lie we continue to believe.

They even sell some kids on the idea that if you entertain audiences representing our school via sports you can get your college paid for. They tell the unsuspecting youth, “work for us full time for four years we won’t pay you a dime, try not to get injured because if you do will kick you out. Just make sure you continue to entertain with our school insignia and we’ll be sure to rep the rewards from our students by charging them more to watch you play. And the money machine keeps chugging away. Talk about setting a student up for failure amke them an athlete that gives his work away for free. We’re going to teach you the exact opposite of valuing your time. Just give us your body. And we’ll send you out of here thinking you need to give your all for nothing in return.

Some employers even help to perpetuate this lie by requiring a college degree for employment. I’m surprised we haven’t filed a class action lawsuits against these employers. This should be considered discrimination. It says if you’re not wealthy or willing to take on massive early in life debt to go to college we don’t want you. Completely neglecting the fact of true education or emotional intelligence. You could be of far superior knowledge than most college grads and chose to intelligently avoid financial ruin early on in life by dodging the college fund juggernaut but since you don’t have that false claim of intellect, the all mighty diploma, you won’t even be considered for the job.

Now there are speciality fields that require a vast depth of knowledge. And college courses can help to develop the foundation of education in these niches. But why aren’t employers offering these courses for pre employment? They should be offering in the job apprenticeships. Trust me you don’t need a college degree to get a good job either. So unless you’re dead set on your field of entry for life. Don’t jump onto the college degree path. You may regret it down the road when the only career you can get is extremely unrewarding but you have to stay in it just to pay back your loan. Save your money invest in yourself. It will take knowledge to get ahead but knowledge is free, just look for it. Use your local library or the internet to achieve it.



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