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Purple Beanie Girl

Sitting here in this chair
 
Watching the people watch me watching her
 
She wears a crown of purple
 
She looks at others through eyes that are unobstructed
 
Her plaid shirt gives off a farm girl aura
 
But is quickly redefined by her hipster flare
 
Writing words on a page for a grade that decides her fate
 
A grade that means nothing out in the world
 
But in this very confined center for artificial knowledge a grade means success
 
A grade defines you by confining you
 
A grade gives a person a false sense of worth that’s decided by another person
 
As she studies, her brain is quickly filling with the facts that everyone knows
 
There’s no truth in facts
 
If we all are taught the same thing
 
There are only so many different interpretations and conclusions
 
She rattles her brain for a greater definition of that which science fails to teach her
 
Man made subjects can only define so much before we start making up definitions for stuff
 
We forget that we’re learning what someone thinks we should know
 
We’re not learning about what will help us grow
 
If the end goal is to be the most wealthy person
 
Then we need to begin by sharing what we know
 
I’m not advocating a classroom or a lecture hall
 
I’m saying that we must teach ourselves before passing on knowledge that could potentially
 
cause us to fall

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I was at my college sitting in the student center when I saw this girl doing some homework across the way. That's nothing new except this time I got to thinking about what college was actually doing to people. I'm not saying education is bad at all, but I think that we tend to follow the paths of other people too often.

#Education

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