Day Fifty Nine

Yesterday I ranted about how soul destroying the education system is, and this morning I realized that I didn’t talk about how fabulous the education is, because it is. No matter how horrible we think it is, we all take it for granted and no-one appreciates it. 

Do you get that feeling, at the end of the summer holidays when you’re bored? Bored of sitting at home, doing nothing, wasting your days away and you actually want to go back to school? Because I do. Imagine if there wasn’t school. Life would be like that and I don’t know what I’d do to spend my time. Without education, we couldn’t get a job to make money to enjoy our lives. Without education we wouldn’t be able to enjoy simple pleasures, like reading. 

Yes, education is forced and it pressures children into achieving unrealistic dreams, but without it, we’d be nothing. Without that pressure, we’d go inside. There’s no challenge in staying at home and blogging close-ups of Colin Morgans cheekbones. 

Without education we would all be exact replicas of each other, mindless zombies with no future. Without education, I wouldn’t be able to write this post and you wouldn’t be able to read it. We really do owe a lot to education, I suppose.

And I’ve made some utterly fantastic friends through school, friends that I hope to know for many years to come, friends that have helped me discover who I am and helped me get through some of the toughest times of my life. Without education, I wouldn’t have met them.

So, I suppose, this is a thank you to education. A thank you for taking away my social life and fun and a thank you for allowing me to meet friends that I can’t have a social life and fun with. Thank you for introducing me to wondrous information, thank you for teaching me patience, thank you for teaching me restraint and thank you for shaping me into the person that I am today.