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Why I Hate School but Love Education

In the video “Why I Hate School but Love Education” the narrator speaks about how he believes there is a difference between school and education. He says education is not how much money you make but how successful you become. He refers to school has a distant cousin to education. He brings up many big figures in history. He brings up many for example Steve Jobs, Malcolm X, and more big figures in history. He talks about how many dropped out of school and they still became successful. He brings up many quotes or saying which one of them is basically saying education is suppose to inspire.  He brings up that if education is the key than school is the lock. To me education is the key we need to open up the lock of school as saying to succeed in school we need education when  in fact the purpose of school is to give us education. Something I found very impacting in his speech was that if you decide to work for someone, instead of building your dreams, you will be helping someone else build there dreams.

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#Don’tStayinSchool

In the video “Don’t Stay in School,” has left me wondering. The guy presenting the video say many points that I agree with. We aren’t taught information needed to live in this country. We are not taught about politics, taxes, finances, and many more basic information that we should know since we live in this country. He makes a valid point that some people do not wish to further there education and that some principles are not required for many of us. I agree with him on the fact that we need to learn about the basics to be in this country and to live. I also disagree because we need to learn this basic principles because the regular information or general education we are learning is needed because I believe they are the base of our knowledge.  We will continue to build on top of the knowledge we are taught if we chose to continue to further our education. So I agree we need to learn more about the systems in our country  and current events but I also disagree that we need that general education in school because we build on top of them.

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Shitty First Drafts

The "Shitty First Draft" by Anne Lamott is an article which speaks for itself within its title. Anne Lamott talks about how one's first draft should be and how it feels to write your first draft.  

Anne Lamott writes that your first draft should be shitty. She refers to the first draft as "the child's draft".  Where you just write without thinking and just write whatever comes to mind. Also, that your first draft no one will ever see it (just like no one will ever see this blog post "Shitty First Draft"). Anne Lamott also says that some of your best writing can come from your first draft. Your best writing can come from your first draft because your first draft is mainly just letting your thoughts poor out and come out how you first thought of them. Your best writing can be found in your first draft because you let your thoughts run free and you are not restricting yourself by guidelines or the formalities or trying to make it perfect. Your very first draft should never be perfect (most of the times) and they should usually come out badly.  Trying to make your first draft perfect prevents you from releasing your possible very best writing and can stress you out.

Another thing Anne Lamott speaks about in "Shitty First Drafts" is how it feels to write a first draft. She reflects on the time she wrote food reviews for "California" magazine. She says she would usually take two days to write her review but still manage to stress out writing her first drafts.  Anne Lamott says she would panic and just think about how other people would view her first draft. Her first drafts would usually be way to long than expected and go too far into detail and she even acknowledges that her writing was "terrible," but that is how a first draft should be.

Your first draft is usually never seen by anyone else but yourself. Your first draft usually will not be perfect because your first draft is usually a "Shitty First Draft."