School Never Worked for Me. But I Kept Going Anyway & Became a Professor

I’m going to say something that might sound extreme:

If we got rid of higher education as we know it—college, university, all of it—maybe we’d be better off.

Why?

Because most people don’t actually want to learn.

They don’t care. They’re checked out. And no message—no matter how true or kind—seems to land unless it’s already preaching to the choir.

And yet… I keep going.

Because I know this: real education moves the needle.

But only when people take it seriously.

Only when they do the hard work.

Only when they show up—again and again—even when it’s miserable, boring, thankless, and lonely…

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