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Scoprios how would you feel if your father told you this?

Over the past 5 years my dad will occasionally say “don’t listen to kids for ideas” “don’t listen to the kids for advice” “well you don’t have to listen to them (referring to me and my brother)”
and be bead serious! He told my brother randy, who is going to college this year to be an engineer, that he doesn’t think people in college learn anything.

One thing kids learn while growing up is that adults and parents are far from perfect. Your father probably doesn’t mean to hurt you by saying these things, he’s just opinionated and possibly bitter about things, maybe like he can’t adapt to the social changes he’s seen in his lifetime as easily as others and thinks in the “old ways” and is too stubborn to see things like they are now. They’ll go on about how kids are all into drugs while ignoring that they grew up in the 60s/70s.

Adults think kids are outrageous now because “rap music sucks” and we’re all bad and so on, but when they were kids, their parents thought THEY were outrageous for similar reasons “oh no, rock music is the devil’s music! Oh no, poor sense of style! Oh no!” Every generation is different, and I think a lot of times people think that because what younger generations are into are different than when they were young, they automatically assume kids have less sense than ever and are “wilder”.
We’ve just got different sense and a different kind of “wild”.

Your Dad might’ve also grown up in an environment where the kids weren’t allowed to have a say and just had to agree with or to do whatever the adult/parents/whatever told him to do. I know my Dad’s mom never let him or his siblings have a say in anything and she was a control freak, so he often wouldn’t let us do anything and he’d like never let us speak or give our thoughts or opinions or reasons to anything. He wouldn’t let us touch anything – I very well know how to hook up a computer and he wouldn’t let me touch the thing, and what would’ve taken me 2 minutes took him almost an hour to figure out. He wouldn’t let us touch things in stores when we were kids in case we’d break them, he wouldn’t let us touch the expensive items in our house because he thought we’d break it.
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It isn’t that he’s a bad man – he’s an honest, hard-working and generous man – that’s just what he was taught when he was younger. He still loves me and my sisters and does a lot for us and he’s much better now than he used to be – I think he realized a little bit of what he was doing. It’s pretty much at around 16-17 I finally stopped hating him and realized that he’s only human after all, and we all have imperfections and that despite the way he showed it, he still loved and wanted the best for us. As we grew older, we all pretty much learned to ignore his impatience and just shrug it off.

I know several decades ago, not as many people went to college – they went because they were especially intelligent and had money, not because society told them to. College can be extremely useful and you can learn a lot, depending on what you’re studying, why you’re there and how serious you are about it. A lot of people go straight to college or uni after graduating simply because they feel obliged to go and finish by taking classes by impulse and then drop out after gotten in debt for nothing. Some people go just to say they went, some people go just for the experience.
A lot of people will end up studying things they’ll never use or major in. Many people go for the wrong reasons.

Myself, I think more people should take time off between school and college instead of making impulse decisions. I know in high school, teachers were up my as$ about “if you don’t go now, you’ll never go!” and all that BS. I took a year off so I would be certain of what path I want to take, and now that I am I’m starting college this fall for Graphic Design. It wasn’t an impulse decision, and some people I graduated with just in 2010 have already dropped out, or wish they’d researched more about schools and went elsewhere, realizing they’re studying things that’ll bring them nowhere, etc.

College is an investment, but many people aren’t smart about it. Honestly, there are many majors that are a waste of time and money (philosophy, anyone?). A lot of people go to college without a plan and pretty much just take random courses that aren’t going to get them work. College can be extremely useful if one knows what they doing. To say people in college learn nothing is honestly stupid – he’s either ignorant, had a bad experience or is bitter about something. If you want to be a doctor, lawyer, specialist, or even be something like a carpenter, mechanic, engineer, etc – it helps a ton going to college – you make contacts and you learn your skills. You’ll probably be taken more seriously. It’ll probably be better than working in a call centre, fast food or in retail in the long run, too.

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