Quit School Research Paper

When will you finish school? You only have 1 semester left,” just last week, my mother asked (again). You see, even if I am already traveling for a long time now, my parents are still asking. It’s not general knowledge but I only did not quit my job to travel the world but I also didn’t finish school. Every time I say “no,” I know I am deeply hurting my parents dreams for me but I am not regretting saying “no” because I am no longer identifying my success through diplomas and scholastic achievements.

I am from a country where your degree is a trophy. Through all the years I was in University, everyone were struggling to be an A student — I did the same, unfortunately. I spent all my younger years writing essays, making school projects and

I didn’t explain my scholastic status and luckily, we just all let it go as we didn’t want to spoil my ‘adventures.’ I was very young when I started traveling but never did it cross my mind to delay my travels just to finish school. I just had the urge to leave and I never questioned my decisions. I freed myself from the pressure that everyone were giving me: “If you quit school, you will have difficulties to find a job in the future.”

So I went, without thinking about how education will greatly affect my future. I felt a little guilty as all of my friends were about to finish University and I was there, all packed and ready for my big life adventure. Luckily, in my travels, being a college dropout is not a big deal. I met a lot of travellers who also didn’t finish Uni but are very good at what they do. I even met someone who didn’t dare go to University at all. They just finished High School and took

There are a lot of things I learned by being out here that was never taught in school. I speak over 5 languages fluently, I can cook local food perfectly and all my life experiences are so fundamental and I don’t think I would have learned this if I stayed in that kind of learning environment. The world is my University now and even if it won’t give me a diploma at the end of every trip, I know my learnings are valuable and are applicable to everyday life. I do not worry about my future because I know my learnings will help me land into something beautiful. Something that is for me. Something that I won’t be doing for money but I will be doing because I love it.

You know what? I also want to make an experiment. When the time comes that I will have children, I will try schooling them on the road to see how it works. I know a lot of kids raised on the road who can speak three different languages at the age of 6 or can read a map/guide book at the age of 5. I am not closing my doors to introducing my future children to a school setting as this is where they make friends. I am pretty sure always moving around will make them weary and like me, they would also want to have long-term best friends. School is the best place to do/have