Many years ago, when I was in middle school, I was having issues with the homework I had to do. It was simple: I did not want to do it, because it was boring and unfulfilling. I’d much rather play video games. My dad told me something along the lines of: “You have to find intrinsic motivation in the things that you have to do.” What neither he nor the school system taught me was why I had to put up with doin these things in the first place.
Of course, you can’t always do what you want, but that is not the issue here. The issue is that the educational system sets children up to be sheep: obedient, uninspired, and easy to control. It teaches us to get an education, get a job, show up 9-5, do your job, and you’ll be taken care of. Yeah, right. That’s not the kind of person I want to be, and not the kind of person I’d want to work with.
Seth Godin wrote a whole book about that: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
