Education downplays experience

Bored of education? I am as well. There are no words I could muster up that would accurately depict the excellent job America’s education system is doing in preparing its products for the society that so desperately needs competent individuals.

Do we not owe the totality of modern-day society to our educational system? You would be hard-pressed to persuasively make the argument that regurgitating Jane Schaffer paragraph after Jane Schaffer paragraph for our entire adolescence has not flipped the world upside-down.

There is no substitute for experience, except education. Maybe that guy over there has been a software engineer for 25 years, but I have this piece of paper right here that, by default, means I am a far superior software engineer and, let us be honest, person than him.

Death to experience and we shall exalt the almighty piece of paper that says “this person right here knows everything about everything.” I pray that education never changes because repeating the same steps and expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. But what do I know? I’m just a piece-of-paper-seeking college student.

Jason Nazzaro

Cheney