I will never downplay the importance of education. I do however question the way in which education is administered (in regards to jobs and hiring) within our society. Education is currently being used to manipulate, control, and to enslave the average person. Instead of education being a liberator, it puts us in debt and keeps us from obtaining jobs, based on the cost of four year institutions, or the lack of job experience. So once again, we see education as being a form of bondage, instead of being a form of liberation.
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that the skills that are needed for most jobs are more likely learned on the job, or require a specific process, training, or class, where a certification or license is issued. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to perform most of the jobs which exist in the world … all you need, is to be able to read, write, comprehend basic math, use good judgment, and to follow instructions. Most jobs require skill sets which can easily be taught to the average person, without them having to go through the process of attending four year colleges. Years past, most people learned job skills by being an apprentice. An apprentice is a person who goes through the process of learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period.
Today, people pay to attend institutions for knowledge, which usually does not guarantee them the jobs in which they desire. Most people learn the actually job skills required for the job, after they are hired. In some cases, many are left in debt, never obtaining additional skills beyond the basic writing, reading, and math, which are needed to do most of the jobs available in society, to begin with. Below is a short list of jobs which requires hands-on training. Anyone with the proper training can perform these jobs without having to attend a day in college.
Farmers
Subway and Streetcar Operators
Electrical Power Line Installers and Repairers
Supervisors/Managers of Non-Retail Sales Workers
Media and Communication Equipment Workers
Supervisors/Managers of Police and Detectives
Elevator Installers and Repairers
Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Commercial Pilots
Power Distributors and Dispatchers
Gas Plant Operators
I wrote this article for people to comprehend that most people can learn a skill, or an occupation, when they are allowed to do so. I guarantee you, if you go to any low-income community, you can teach most of the young people, how to record and edit music videos, take professional pictures, make flyers and posters, promote a concert events, manage sound equipment or wire stage lights for a major staged event, how to stay within a budget while spending on a planned concert event, paint walls, grow flowers in a park, or even how to build and put up a sage for a major concert event held in the local park.
If you went to the roughest part of Chicago, and you told the kids that the city would host a free hip-hop concert if the kids were willing to be involved in all the jobs mentioned above, you would see all the job skills that these young kids already have, or you would see a strong desire from the kids to be willing to learn the necessary skills needed to get the free concert in their neighborhood.
Education should always come with a reward and should never result in debt. Most people in society have the ability to be employable; but it is the capitalist process and injustices of society, which makes this process difficult. Most people want to learn, and want to live in good conditions. Most people want to learn the skills they need to do the work that they want. Society forces people to either learn the skills that the capitalist elite wants people to learn or they deem them as uneducated or unemployable. I say what a sham. We will no longer allow them to get away with this, and we will become innovators & social entrepreneurs, while promoting critical thinking to our young.
Saye Taryor (Brother Saye)
@sayetaryor
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