Will Bridges

Being a new parent has made me look at my own education as a reflection of myself. I’m not talking just about the government school I went to when I was a child but my overall education. As many of you know I’m a high school drop out. So, it seems ,to some people, like it would be odd for someone who is a drop out to value education as much as I do. But, just because I dropped out doesn’t mean I don’t value education. I just didn’t value the education I was getting from the government school. I learned enough that I could teach myself what I didn’t know and needed to know. I believe being a person in the Information Age gives you no excuse not to grow, learn, and look at world as a child would. Wonder, ‘what if’ or ‘why?’ or ‘how does that work?’. Accepting the world around you without question leads you to slavery from the world around you. Many of us go to school and belive that after that we are done being educated and that’s it. It then becomes time to ‘do’ with the education you have recieved. But, that’s not the case. Anyone who excels in their respective field will tell you that education is a life long struggle to know. We have to willing to learn and willing to be proven wrong and willing to accept we do not know as much as we think we do. This should be the lesson we all accept moving in to this new year.