Biggest Scam Ever? (Pt. 1)

SCAM: n. A stratagem for gain; a swindle. To swindle (someone) by means of a trick

College is a scam. There is no way around that being a true statement. We are told from day one: go to school, get good grades, and go to college. By 18, figure out what you want to do with your life and go to a good college that will get you there. Make one of the biggest decisions of your lives, and work towards that for at least the next four years. Now of course, that's not how they tell us. They sell it to us with dreams of being rich; affording expensive things; traveling based on your simple whim...this is what entices us to feel that need to go to college. But, to be fair, it's not only that; it's also because having an education can truly better your life, especially when you have people in your life that never had the chance to go and their lives turned out less than spectacular. So don't get me wrong, school is a blessing that many aren't even afforded, I'm just saying it isn't always the right choice for everyone.

We are never told about the many rich or well-off people who never even finished college, let alone attended one. I imagine it's because if enough people are told and really believe that one can make it without college, no one would go...which would in turn collapse this whole "system" we are made to believe in. But in efforts to not sound flat out crazy, I'll simply say, not going to school CAN be a good thing. Although I feel everyone should at least try, school isn't for everyone, and sometimes making certain people follow that type of structure can ruin the greatness they intended on doing. Millionaires that put off school for their passion, for instance, if they had stayed in school and done what they were "supposed" to do, they would not have the money they have today, and might never have gotten it. We may not have had certain great inventions we know and love today, because someone put off the skills they already had to go to school and have them give them a piece of paper that suddenly makes them qualified.