Education

HI GUYS!

Education has always been an issue in my family, since they have always told me that to be someone in life I must study and have a professional degree; with which I have always disagreed since, for me, a person is worth more for what they are than for the opportunities they have (in terms of studies, jobs, etc.) from my personal experience, from a very young age I have been in against some methods that are used to measure their performance in schools to the point that before finishing basic education my parents threatened to enroll me in a military school, after that I openly said that I would not enter any university since it was very overrated and the truth is that there are still things that make me think the same.

so basically, it felt like this:

Now when I say this it may sound contradictory, I do not deny it, even for me it was a surprise to decide to do this. And the truth is funny how I ended up here, since, despite having always been against the school's methods, and many other things that this entails (as I could clearly notice the educational differences between my school and that of some friends who were enrolled in private schools) the truth is that, although I did not pay much attention in class, somehow I managed to get good grades, perhaps it was because my mother In spite of everything, she always worried about what subjects of history, language, etc, were everyday topics for us.

The fact is that in high school I was determined to finish school and start working, but after so much insistence on the part of my parents, I decided that to please them I would try to try the things they wanted for me. After many things happened in the field of seeking a profession with what little was left in my head after years of repeating the same subjects in school (where, being a religious school, the teachers were more interested That we know how to pray before we know who Einstein was.) I decided to make a small deal with my parents, I would take the PTU and only if I could get a scholarship or some kind of financial aid, I would go to study.

I must emphasize that I never took a book to try to study or something while taking the exam, since I was not really interested in the least bit to continue studying. At the time of taking the test, I realized that the teaching differences between the schools were abysmal, since while my school taught me half of what was asked, some boys from a paid school were talking about how easy it was and that at their school they asked more difficult questions; Clearly thanks to that I thought I would not have scholarships or anything. But when the day of the results arrived, SURPRISE, I had financial aid and the University of Chile had accepted me. It almost felt like someone had taken my pride and thrown it away, I had nothing to do but go to college. With the passage of time I must say that some of those prejudices have disappeared, but there are still times I prefer to omit the name of my university since, when saying it, people actually see you with different eyes and I do not like that. Conversing with some of my colleagues, they have also made comments that, for my taste, are quite classist when they refer to other institutions and that has also been the subject of discussion, since as I said, I do not think that because you are in a university you are a A better person and I don't think that being part of a renowned university will make you a better student since given my history, it clearly is not.

 I know it is a somewhat long story and with many contradictions, but it is 100% real and the truth seems to me something funny when life gives you directly on pride. And whether you see it as good luck or bad luck to me, now it's just one more story to work on my way and see how it ends.

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