I can't count the number of things I learned in college on my fingers because I didn't really learn anything. Nor did I learn good study habits, nor did I culti

I can't count the number of things I learned in college on my fingers because I didn't really learn anything. Nor did I learn good study habits, nor did I cultivate my appreciation of knowledge there. I did all that after I dropped out of college and the ugliness of the work world drove me to cultivate my inner garden. I am exponentially smarter now than I ever was in school. I am a firm believer in the sentiment behind the phrase "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education." The author believes in a fiction that never existed. Professors have always had to fight to earn the attention of students, iPhones weren't the only competitors. What's happened is that reality has gotten so naked that even the absurdly idealistic professors have had to acknowledge it. They were the only ones who ever really believed it. I feel like even parents, for awhile now, pay lip service to the value of schooling without actually believing in it. Education is not, and never was, what academia seems to think it is.