A speaker raised in an entrepreneurial household reflects on how traditional school trains compliance and rule-following over curiosity. He was punished for questioning why things were done a certain way, while his father refused to fund college unless he pursued a conventional career like doctor, lawyer, or engineer.
school teaches you to be the employee. This is how you have to do it. You have to follow the rules. You have to show your work. You have to make sure that was your own thoughts, even though it was exactly what we told you that you were supposed to write down. Um, I was always the kid in school that raised my hand and asked why. So like, I don't care if I got the answer from cheating off the kid next to me, or if it was just I was able to use my resources, or even if I just took a guess and I had a 25% chance and I got it right. Regardless, I was getting shunned as the one that wasn't doing it the right way. And it was as I started, like, of course, like I mentioned, being an entrepreneurial household, it was always just different conversations at home. It was talking about business, talking about hiring and firing employees, and how scale, um, on top of obviously just my curious personality in school, it was like I just was open up to a different world. I didn't really see the point of going and following a traditional system. And then my dad really instilled that in my head too, saying, I'm not going to pay for college unless you go and be a doctor, lawyer, attorney, engineer, or teacher.
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