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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2384817, member: 966"] I'll see your three Wrongs and raise you another. An education need not have anything to do with your eventual profession. Doesn't matter if studying sociology or 'Mozart' makes a basketball player better at basketball. It makes him a better person. Your son IS getting education in the navy. But that's not even important to Dispute your 'logic.' He didn't enjoy listening to someone (a teacher) drone on about things he's not interested in? Tough toenails. Did he whine about that in high school too? Did you tell him not to pay attention to history in junior high? At what point was he already learned enough? Actors and musicians? College never prevented anyone from acting or playing an instrument. College, In fact, can benefit both. There are schools for both, you know. And if they are too involved professionally for college at that age, fine, they don't go. My point is that societally, more education is better than less. There's no societal edict or requirement. But organizationally, the NBA is in a position to benefit society and build better young men. Knowing more makes you better. And, so, for every Taylor Swift, I'll counter with a Justin Bieber. And raise you a Meryl Streep. My younger sister hated high school. Didn't get great grades. She told me she wasn't going to college. I told her she WAS going to college. She went. She loved it. She went abroad her junior year. She loved it. She went to grad school. She loved it. She moved to Italy. She loved it. She loved there for 10-ish years, and now hat she's been back in the us for ten years, she's clamoring to live in Paris or Spain or Germany. She works successfully in a field she knew nothing about before she began undergrad work. She speaks three languages fluently. She's a mother to two beautiful boys and a husband to a guy from the navy. And the guy from the navy? Who hated school? He now has a law degree and is working on his MBA. A lack of education and critical thinking is why we're in the pickle we're in now with half the electorate not being able to recognize truth from foreign troll-created fiction. And the point of education isn't just reading Kirkegaard. I learned more about PEOPLE from having roommates of different cultures and 2am debates/discussions in the dorm lounge. All part of 'incidental socialization.' [/QUOTE]

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