The most powerful things,
are often attacked with shame.

For example,

Learning astrophysics on your own, versus going to a fancy university
are two very different things, and guess which one you are going to be shamed for.

That's right people are going to laugh at you for learning on your own,
the teacher is probably going to laugh at you.

"How are you going to learn without grades,
without instruction, and who is going to hire you?"

They aren't asking you questions, and they aren't making fun of you,
they are attempting to manipulate you to be like they are...

Because your independence, is an enormous threat to their fantasy of education,
they are of course aware of their own pretending-to-learn.

And what is holding it all together,
is their hope that it will all come together in the last semester.

And when the final semester comes around,
they will just be focused on moving on.

The whole thing, to a starling degree,
is make believe.

I think people always bring up Doctors,
and medical students at this point.

But they may not know that,
medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in America

Between 250,000 and 440,000 people die from medical errors,
each year.

Medical professionals have the same problem,
as all the other students.

It is easy to pass the tests by cramming,
but that does not mean a person is educated for real.

If that was the case, then nobody would have a problem with retaking all the tests,
that led to their graduation, that today, serves as the proof of their knowledge.

Who would you trust more the self taught professional who studied in as far as that is possible, every step of the way,
with great love and dignity, and then went to med school, after they already mastered most things.

Or the students that passed the tests,
by memorizing everything.

Let me repeat that question,
who is better?

The self taught who has learned for real, out of passion, out of wishing to become a great being,
out of wanting to make a difference.

Or the kind of a person that is easily swayed by simple things,
and gets good at taking tests, and probably a lot of other inauthentic things.

When you say I will learn on my own people will laugh at you,
because they are terrified, because they know that can't do that, all they can do is pass the tests.

If you ever do take to astrophysics,
you are likely to take a long detour into Astrophotography.

This is neither a search for supernovae nor a study of anything in particular,
the school will call this Extracurricular Activity.

Schools are so far detached, that to them the whole point of it,
the love of the universe will be silly, amateur, and Extracurricular.

This happens everywhere, Learning From Science Popularizes,
which is an expression for love of knowledge and sharing science, is seen as trivial and a waste of time.

Tracing In Art, which is a way to perfectly love beauty,
is seen as cheating, will get you dismissed, maybe thrown out.

Proportional Dividers In Sculpture,
will have people calling you a fraud.

3D Model modification in 3D modeling,
instead of sitting there with calipers, will be seen as copying.

Sampling In Music, or Hip Hop,
is seen as stealing.

School is just a narrow channel,
it is not capable of teaching you integrated knowledge.

I suspect in a lot of schools, even the Dean's is just a way to keep you taking classes,
because that 4.0 looks really good in their paperwork and yearly statistics.

I remember my first time in College,
I asked why do I need all these other classes, when I am trying to expand my Programming knowledge.

Her response was instant,
"Balanced Education", it was rehearsed, it was policy, it is a lie, and for them it is all about everyone keeping their jobs.

But in reality, schools should be about real education,
not just debt, hard work, memorization, stress and more debt.

Real education, to put it simply,
is about learning new things that integrate with your existing knowledge, and thus make it better.

Learning new things that integrate with your existing knowledge - is how self education works,
and that is why it should always come first.