Study for our Life or for a Job ?

Why do we go to school? Is it to study in a program that will get us a job? In my opinion, even if there are some specific programs which lead students directly to a job, students go to school to learn, to understand and to see the past, the present and the future of humanity and its world. Our studies (History, Politics, Pure Sciences, Arts, Business, Communications, Literature, etc.) show us the realizations of humanity through the past, and it shows us aspects of our society that we, as the youth, will have to improve, in eventually becoming active adults, active citizens.

 

 

In fact, not only do we study specific academic fields of study, but we also give attention to social issues and ways to solve them. People will study in natural sciences, human sciences, arts and others, and those future active citizens will unite their strengths and will share their thoughts to create a complete society. A society with doctors, policemen, politicians, journalists, teachers and bus drivers that will enjoy their responsibilities of active citizens, and will turn out to be a peaceful and benevolent community.

What is an active citizen?

In my opinion, it is an opened-mind person, who has had education and personal experiences, and who cares about the common good, additionally to its own good.

How can we become an active citizen?

The key to turn into an active citizen is to OPEN YOUR MIND, whether it is by education or by life experiences. It is to make yourself aware of the people who surround you: aware of their problems and aware of their strengths. This skill has to be developing for every human being and it can develop itself by family education, academic education and also by personal education (experiences). In my opinion, an opened-mind individual can solve any problem linked with his field of study and try to solve any issue about his life and also about others (people from his community and ideally, from every human on the planet).

Even if active citizens unite with others, they have to be independent too. To be completely independent in our contemporary social and economic context, humans have to know how to write a resume, ask for bank loans, buy a safe car, buy condoms, find a field of study and many others CONCRETE needed tasks. But where and how do we learn them? Young adults learn them by receiving mentors education, whether they are parents, teachers or friends, who have already done these tasks before. Unfortunately, it is not every young adult who has the opportunity to receive such concrete information. If we cannot learn those things in schools, well, let’s make it happen! We only need to create a class where an adult teaches his students on how to do these necessary concrete tasks. A class, without any marks and results, which will make every young adult independent and ready for their future life (work, family, hobbies, etc.). A class, which will join itself to the original opening-mind courses (sociology, philosophy, arts, physics, etc.) in creating a community provided of independent and active citizen.

Adding to these words, the goal of going to school isn’t only to eventually getting a job. It is to stimulate the spirit by learning passionate things that will give inspiration and motivation to the student. Human life’s goal is to live, and for an active citizen, it is to live in harmony with others. If we want to live by our dreams and by our passions, we have to feed ourselves food to eat and a house to sleep. Owning these is not free: humans have to buy them and so, they have to get a job (unless you want to become a farmer, which is still kind of a job). However, you have to remember that even if a job contributes to a living; your job is not your life. How did I notice that you’ll ask? It is by studying human sciences at school, an education that opened my mind and made me an active citizen. The reason why I share this with you is because I am an active citizen, a human being who wants the common good. I am who I am by my education, and this is the key for a harmonized society.

And you, will you be an active citizen? Will you LIVE TO WORK or will you WORK TO LIVE?

THINK about it, maybe before lying on a hospital bed.