Roosh Valizadeh suggests that his entire education was a complete waste of time, and a commenter who taught college for five years adds this bit of advice:
The one thing that school, from primary school through university, is able to teach a person is how to wake up, show up on time, do something you do not want to do, do it in a timely fashion and do it well.
For what it is worth, any branch of the military could have taught this exact same lesson and they would pay you (though admittedly not much) instead of the other way around.
The commenter is right on. What I finally realized is that I wasn’t teaching anyone anything. I was providing structure, direction and discipline so that my students could learn on their own.
The commenter is off base, at least where someone like me is concerned. I mostly disliked school and was never all that good at showing up on time. And (until twelfth grade calculus) the curriculum was so easy there was really very little learning to do anything well.
Luckily I then went to engineering school, where the lessons I learned were somewhat oblique to the commenter’s point. You don’t have to waste time doing something you didn’t want to be doing. The world is full of interesting engineering problems, and if you can make good progress on them, people will not only pay you a decent salary, they won’t much care if you come in an hour late because you were out drinking (there’s a reason lab meetings are in the afternoon.)
Twenty years of engineering work later, that lesson has still served me well– although these days I mostly manage to get in before ten o’clock, because I’m up early packing groggy kids off to school. Where they’re bored.
But just like how the political arena isn’t about facts and reason, education isn’t primarily about learning anymore, it’s true and openly stated goal is to produce the new Soviet man, to eliminate the influence of parents, morals, national patriotism and merit.
To paraphrase Lenin himself:
The socialist-collectivist state of the American educational system is no accident.
Why do you think “The left is working at destroying any hope of having a middle class life without a college degree. Making it so the people who aren’t smart enough for college can only go on the dole, creating more democrats. If there were only college graduates and people on the dole, the Democrats would never lose another election.” to quote Nathan Wartooth
It’s only a waste for red pill popping outcasts like Roosh, otherwise it works as advertised.
Hell, colleges today have “social justice” career fairs; it’s hilarious!
What Mike said++
When a book and a head collide, and there is a hollow sound, it is not always the book that is hollow. Sometimes the head is lacking a brain.
That is to say, perhaps Roosh is a hollow man, whose destiny it is to always turn back on his past choices and reflect that his life was wasted.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Sarging together
Peacocking with hats. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We spit pick-up game
Are quiet and meaningless
As smoke from dank grass
Or sluts’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Rants without form, ebooks without value,
Paralysed self-promotion, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
pick-up artists, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men
Who never got laid in Ukraine
and lied about it
and got called out on TV.
From Roosh Never Got Laid In Ukraine.
Like most people in the red pill movement, Roosh has no credibility. Roosh is unfortunate enough to have proven this by appearing on TV.