"Get an education and earn a good job."
The typical logic passed down from our parents on succeeding in life. Education is the necessary, essential tool to building a better future...right? Well, West Coast MC The Game depicts education from another standpoint...or does he?
It is the most quintessential element of succeeding in life: Earning an education.
My father instilled it in me and my siblings and I'm pretty sure your parents enlighten you as well to gain knowledge in the classroom in order to secure a good job or career (there is a difference). Studies even show that more people with diplomas and degrees earn, on average, more than the high school dropouts...right? So why would any other career-seeking option be applicable to life?
Well...
According to a recent Twitter post from West Coast MC The Game, he expressed his displeasure with America's schools system..but still admitted that kids should go.
"After you learned how to read & do addition, what else did we need school for that we use in everyday life as an adult ?," he wrote Monday (January 25th). "Cuz I swear I can't remember half the sh*t in them History books, my writin still sloppy, & I aint seen a microscope since science class! well, sex education was MOST definitely appreciated !...I think school was a government's plot to keep track of us & program our lives. up at 7, out at 3pm five days a week. caught in the matrix but as a parent, I just dropped my kids off @ school & ah getta break from em' .. them 2 dudes is animals ! I get it, school is a babysitter Martin Luther King said: "The reason we in school 13 yrs is because, that's how long it takes to DESTROY a child's mind" .#nuffsaid but kids, STAY IN SCHOOL. we all gotta do it....... Aye, but I'm from Compton so maybe it was just our school system that aint really do shit for us. My teachers wore khaki suits n ere'thang."
 So...
After that, I became completely confused. If school is so unecessary, as he "eloquently" put it, why does he drop his kids off there every weekday? Or, if school is a pivotal aspect of teaching children, why bad mouth it?
The schooling system's benefits heavily outweigh whatever may seem "negative." The Game even used a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote; not sure where he got it from, but would King be the King he was and is today without his higher education? Would many of our Black History heroes be the iconic figures they are today minus proper schooling? Mary McCloud Bethune, Federick Douglas and Thurgood Marshall just to scratch the surface. And of course you have the industrial trailblazers in Nat Turner and Madame C.J. Walker who paved the way in their historic course without education.
But what was Game's viewpoint? I agree some aspects of school may be out of wack but overall, the universal subjects of school can prepare young teens for whatever the world throws at them. One may never know what they actualy need to apply later in life that they learned from school. It's all in the process of learning. Personally, many things I learned throughout high school and college help me to this day. Basic math and other general education courses truly are vital for someone to simply question school's purpose or the system.
And of course school's not for everyone. You have Bill Gates, Kobe Bryant, Kanye West. These exceptionally successful gentlemen skipped the higher education route but definitely, at least obtained general education from high school. But my point is, these guys are extremely rare with God-given abilities of creativity and athleticism. Not everyone can leap 45'' in the air standing still, or produce Grammy-Award winning music and rap simultaneously, or design a world-changing computer software product. Either they don't have the ability or they're too lazy. So they need school. On the whole, it's a route usually traveled for more tangible career options.
So whether it's a so-called governmental scheme, or plot or mind-trapping, diabolical contortion to keep kids out of the "know"...just go to school. You might actually learn something.
But what do I know? I'm just an educated journalist.
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