They Won't Get Away With That in the Real World

At work, the good adult also faces problems. As a child, it was enough to follow the rules, never to make trouble and to avoid provoking the merest frustration. But a cautious approach cannot tide one satisfactorily across an adult life. Almost everything interesting, worth doing or important will meet with a degree of opposition. The greatest plan

Probably the biggest lie told in schools, though, is that the way to succeed is through following "the rules." In fact most such rules are just hacks to manage large groups efficiently.

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacial pace of change of the education system cannot match the agility of the real world, where a single moment can rewrite and reorganize its foundations.

Regardless of how you feel about the fairness of these practices, they are very real and the effects they have on your life will be just as real. If your job is unfairly and unjustly moved overseas, it’s still gone. It’s more effective to accept this reality and work to improve it than to bemoan it from the sidelines. The best way to improve condit