“Will this be on the test?”
Seth Godin
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I have 120 credit hours, but no degree. I took classes in college that fascinated me, that taught me something I wanted to know. No one, other than Universities, has ever required or even asked about a degree. You don’t have to go to school to learn what you need to know. Home schoolers taught us that. My mother died in Feb. this year. I decided to fulfill her last wish and sail her ashes down the Tom Bigbeewaterway - a 400+ mile journey. I’m not a sailor. I’m also going to film it, make it a documentary. http://sailingwildbettyhome.blogspot.com/ I’m not a filmmaker. So I’ve signed up for a 4-day/4-night liveaboard experience on a sailboat to learn to sail. And I asked all my friends what they know about filmmaking. And I came to learn my cousin, whom I’ve never met, was a film editor on the last Star Wars movie, and that a screen writer (he wrote the screenplay for The Jazz Singer) wants to teach me how to write screenplays and on and on and on. There are people I have relationships with who have the skills I need who are willing to teach me what I need to know to do what I want to do. I don’t need to know how to navigate the ocean. I need to get down a river, and I’m learning that. School, we think, is for “getting a job” and the “prize” and building a bank account. That’s one thing it’s good for. How about we call school a place to learn the things we want or need to know to create a LIFE we want, not a job we want. There’s a difference. Brilliant, as always Seth.