Another summer come and gone

[Galician]

Aye, summer is over and it's back to class for me, though sadly I must keep the job as well.

The purpose of general education is to separate you from more of your money (or your future income, someone else's money, tax money, and private funds) and at the same time, prop up departments which would have no purpose if people only studied that which would help them in some future career.

As someone who was asked if I spoke English for wearing a kilt by a person visiting from another (let's just say central) part of the country, I beg to differ.

In this country, we are getting a good example right now of how we need to make decisions which effect the entire globe. We need to choose leaders and decision makers who can push "the" button or work out trade treaties with countries halfway around the world. And, yes, send soldiers to fight and die on our behalf.

If we don't know anything about the world outside our future careers, we don't have much of a chance for making any better choices than have been made in the past. Perhaps even worse, as choices are made without knowledge of societies and the histories which unite or divide us.