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Re: Friday, November 30, 2001
It isn't just the universe that doesn't care about formal degrees. Employers don't, either. Nor friends. Nor lovers. Nor kids. But I kinda knew that going in, which is one reason I knew it was okay for me to suck for so many years at being a cog in the mill we call school. My point, I think (lemme check and see if I had one...), is that I'm still surprised to find myself referred to in flattering terms, especially for just being myself and doing what I do. I guess I saw myself being set up as some kind of high standard when there is so much in my ample history to make that ironic. But yes, it is good to be reminded every once in awhile. Being ourselves is what we're all best at. The constsant challenge is to become better at that. Which is what I want Scoble (and everybody) to do. Took me a long time to learn that one. This blogging thing is still teaching me, in fact. John Taylor Gatto, the great schoolteacher and scourge of compulsory schooling, says the purpose of education is not additive — to fill the kid's head with curricular content — but subtractive: to "remove everything that prevents a child's inherent genius from gathering itself." I love that line. By the way, the one thing I regret about my formative years isn't that I sucked at school, but that I never became a musician. So you have my envy and admiration on that one. There are responses to this message:
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