I got my education through public school.

I was always an incredibly curious kid with a strong desire to learn. But by the time I graduated, this innate curiosity was almost nonexistent in my educational life.

I had a lot of internal dialogue around this subject. Often looking like:

It’s better to just do my work and turn it in.

It doesn’t matter what I think.

I’ll just get the answers from a friend.

Without fully understanding the extent of it, my curiosity slowly got crushed. I stopped asking questions. What I was told began to become my reality: it doesn’t matter.

And because it didn’t matter, it often wasn’t necessary for anyone to do their own thinking. All of our answers were going to be the same anyways. I got them from my neighbors so I had more time to work at my job.

Sparing no time, I walked out of my school building after graduating and, immediately, felt the strongest sensation of: what was the point of that?

I still can’t answer that question.

But I can tell you that I will never have to ask it again.

I’m in the process of relearning learning how to write, talk, present myself, research information, and show my work.

Making every day a day to learn something new, experiment, and get random stuff out there. These blog posts being one important step in my process.

A standard education produces standard results.