12/29/10 DROPOUTS AREN'T STUPID, THEY'RE SELFISH
College dropouts are NOT always stupid.sometimes I run into a dropout..maybe a cop, maybe a clerk..maybe a clerical worker..or a mechanic and they try to do the "So u went to college & u don't know this or that" routine..trying to make me feel stupid or inferior..and for a while their "spiritual warfare" worked on me..I felt bad and they made me feel stupid..but then I realized..I'm definitely NOT stupid, but don't know everything..and definitely don't know all the "mechanical" things of so many different jobs..even a garbage man knows a lot of things I don't know. I couldn't drive a garbage truck without some training. Does that make me stupid? No, it just means I haven't been taught that skill. I couldn't even operate a cash register without some training. Does that make me stupid? No, it just means I haven't been taught that skill. A dropout will laugh at "college boy" & say, "If you're so smart why can't you operate this cash register?" And I will say, "If you're so smart, why don't you know that they don't teach cash registers 101 in college?" We don't learn such a skill because we don't expect to be operating cash registers after college, thank u very much.
Going to college doesn't necessarily mean you are an Einstein genius, nor that u can even operate a cash register, nor a police radio for that matter (without training).
Most of the time going to college means you have at least a little bit above average intelligence or more, but more importantly that you are willing to SACRIFICE self, time, money for the greater good, and dropouts are NOT willing. Thus we have to dangle little "sweets" to get these dropouts to participate in society, whether it be as a clerk or a cop or a cashier or a cook....whatever it may be. What we NEED MORE OF are people willing to sacrifice for the greater good without some sort of "guaranteed immunity" .
In some regards going to college has some parallels with "carrying the cross." The Christian walk of life is a sacrifice too, with no guarantees of anything here on earth. We do hope for heaven, but we do so solely by FAITH. We have NOT empirically seen this heaven, nor empirically seen God or Jesus. Some days (actually every day I encounter it in one way or another) its frustrating when u encounter one of these clerks or cops or mechanics who will only do something if u "show them the money" as they say. They need to see the gold, or they don't give. "NO GOLD, NO GIVE", is their motto. Nothing is done out of "goodwill" or generosity "for the kingdom". "Show me the money" they say. Show me the LOVE I say. Just a little bit.
JVK
