What I learned in school...

[tangwyn]

I worked quite a bit before I went back and finished my first degree. And people would always ask me what I learned? The answer is still "nothing that I wasn't familiar with before, but I did learn some good things here and there

Comments

[rare]

Interesting! You credit that change to school? Growing up I had an insufferable ego and it took me repeated embarrassment to finally discover it's okay to say, “I don't know.” After that, asking someone else seemed natural.

[tangwyn]

I think it was drilled into me that since I didn't have a degree, I wasn't as capable as someone with one. So regardless of how capable I really was, I would refuse help to show I didn't need it.

Now that I have one, I guess I am "as capable" as everyone else now, so the inferiority complex washed away.

[infinite_hiatus]

I know other people like that, so it's probably not an unusual trait.

[superjill]

ya, that's what i often said about university. you don't learn stuff, you learn how to learn.

[ja1isa739]

I'll check that out!