education isn't everything Margo Woodward
College,  Margo

GRAD SCHOOL UPDATE: Education Isn’t Everything

Ok, I must admit, right now I’m a bit frustrated and disappointed.
I haven’t already shared this, but now is the perfect opportunity: I’m working on my master’s degree.  But you know what I just learned?  Education isn’t everything.

I just left a class discussion where the  majority of the women basically supported gold-digging, receiving money for ‘companionship‘, or as my professor so accurately labeled it: prostitution. 

We were discussing how there are now tons of organizations recruiting young, beautiful woman to pair them with rich old guys.  Now, hear me: I’m not judging.  We’re all imperfect, we’ve all done wrong, and we’ll all made mistakes.

Why am I upset?

The reason I’m upset is because this was glamorized.  My female peers didn’t see anything wrong with it.  They even argued how there were ‘clear expectations‘ involved.  I not once heard the word morals.  Or, values, or respect for self.  Nope.  No one said anything remotely close. 

What I did hear, however, is how everyone is harder on women than on the men.  They argued how it’s all about choice.

There was a time in my life when I felt as if education made you different.  That you were somehow ‘good‘ and ‘smart‘ because you were educated.  Well, tonight while sitting in a graduate school persuasion course I got proved wrong.

One thing I know for sure, I want to earn my education while striving to maintain an ethical character- respecting myself and others.  I want to be known not for being perfect, but for being able to discern right from wrong, and for having the courage to do what is right.

Ok, I feel better now.  But I am still a little upset.

Education isn’t everything.

I’ll close with this:

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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