Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The College Obsession_ Are We Overvaluing Academics_ | The Truth About Neurodivergent Kids

10 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A first-person monologue (YouTube video) critiquing society’s 'academics first' mindset and the pressure to attend college. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about their 20-year-old oldest child not attending college and pushes back against the idea that college is the only valid path.

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We have shifted to academics first, everything else after. And we're really become a fear driven society that your kid must go to college, they must do this. My oldest isn't going to college, at least at this point, and he's 20. And people like I literally have said, had friends tell me, I think it's terrible what you're doing. And I'm like, really? That's interesting because I wasn't asking, but I, I was like, clearly. I believe in college I had to get a doctorate, but not everybody has that path.