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"Life Without College"
After cerebral absorption of Jude the Obscure--like Christ: "I wept." This being akin to the most brief Biblical Verse.
AUTODIDACTICISM offers axiomatic grasp of truth and reality; specifically, it allows one to even obtain esoteric and mystical knowledge, both of which are unavailable in the classroom. Verily, one does not have to climb the scholastic ladder of academia in order to become an intellectual dynamo.
Today, we live in: The Age Of Information! Here is a short list of fine folk having lived without the assistance of college:
William Blake
Ray Bradbury
Truman Capote
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Benji Franklin
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Paine
Gore Vidal
Walt Whitman (Armed with high-caliber vernacular and Free Verse/Art is the privilege of every Adam.)
Malcolm X
Here are some having chose a scholastic "exodus":
Joseph Conrad
Philip K. Dick
Jack Kerouac
Jim Morrison
Percy Shelley
Charlotte and Emily knew: "It's not about the mechanics of conservative man, yet inspiration."
Too, I'm gonna throw in excommunicated, Rabbinical Scholars: Spinoza & Christ.
Moreover, Muhammad was sincerely illiterate when he forged the Koran. Known, at the time, as a loafer of the desert and a second rate man--there came a mystical time for the Prophet when there was no denying the existence of God; next, the Arch-Angelic Gabriel appeared.
I've been mocked, laughed at, and endured intellectual prejudice because I had to drop out at the beginning of 10th grade due to a nagging illness. Furthermore, my Pap, a Serbian immigrant dubbed Dragan Radulovich braved being looked down upon and was considered a chimp-minded gimp by some members of his family due to leaving school for the necessity of hard labor in order to support his kin.
Ultimately, like William Blake, Pap died a penniless, old man, though not before informing me: "Death is the Equalizer. Like Chess Pieces, we all go back into the same box after the game."
No waaaay am I dismissing the achievement of education, for it gets you in the door. Still, illness and cerebral asymmetry push you through the door; next, they lock it behind you.
