The Shortest Blog: The meaning of 16 years of Education

Long back, farmer taught his children to farm, weaver to weave, tailor to stitch and shepherd taught his children to shear wool from their sheep.

The purpose of teaching was to give them a living.

Today the rich teach their children how to get rich. The middle-class and poor teach their kids to go to school for 16 years.

Why?

As a student what did we learn and what do we use day to day? Can we list them down, may be in the comments below as an effort for self-realization? Writing provokes brains better. Except the specialists, most of us don't use most of what we learnt. Qualify this in your own life.

Yes, after 16 years of studying anything, something sticks to some people as a 'job', which they love or hate. Is that the only way?

Still, most of us put our kids through the same grind. Why?