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.
Read Graduate School: 7 months shy of holding my master’s degree
