AI FREE ZONE
Education as a child is a chore, something I have to drag myself up from my comfortable bed and into a classroom filled with my friends to listen to some old guy/gal talk about numbers or something.
As an adult, education is ammunition, without it there are no doors, there is no wider world and your mind is corrupted by stagnation and ignorance.
I left my high school with 2 GCSE’s, for those of you who don’t know what that means, I basically left with next to nothing. Now, seventeen years later, I have a foundation degree, undergraduate degree, and a masters and am looking to do further education in the future.
The truth is, education is a double edged sword. The more you learn, the less you know, and while I hated it at school, the burden of education and knowledge is found in knowing not only you know nothing, but that there is no real answer to anything, especially in the field of the humanities.
While Maths and science has right and wrong answers, humanities allows interpretation, theory and at times, wild guesses. There is no right, or wrong answer in these subjects, and this can drive a person mad with ideas.
For example, I have been debating in my own mind, the hypothesis of the United Kingdoms future. For five or so years, the same debates are made within the court of my brain. I am no closer to an answer, and each theory only becomes more and more depressing and extreme in nature.
it drives me mad, and at times I wish I never looked into Pandoras box and stayed an ignorant uneducated person who’s greatest worries are how expensive a pint is and how often can I go to the pub.
Instead I decided to educate myself in history, politics and journalism. Expanding my mind, and decreasing my faith in both humanity and the world.
So although I adore education, learning and all that comes with it… I have paid the price of it tenfold, and have grasped no happiness from it.
Uncharted Thoughts. 
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