Personal Saying 2.08

"Stand up on your own. Education is your shoes. Determination is your socks."

This is the saying I made up after listening to my economic development teacher discussing about uplifting one's self. Actually, the teacher said that we should be self-sufficient. We should be able to stand up on our own. And, according to him and I also agree, the only way to be able to stand on our own is through education. Humans should be educated. Humans should invest on their capital and that is human capital. And education is the one way of enhancing the human capital. So, if you need to "stand" on your own, you could do it with your feet. But standing on your feet alone would imply that you are not ready for sharp stones, hard ground, etc. And shoeless feet is like the person is primitive and we could also say ignorant. So, in order to show that we are educated, a shoe would symbolize that. Once you stand up with a shoe, you are not anymore afraid of the sharp stones, hard grounds, etc for you are protected already as well as prepared. The sharp stones, hard grounds, etc are examples of our life's trials and challenges. And of course, the teacher has an addition to what he just said. He even said that education is not enough in order to stand on our own. Although you could do so with a shoe or shoes but it is not comfortable for our feet to wear shoes only. That's why we need socks to protect our feet from the hazards brought by the shoes. Same goes with education. Although we could stand when we are educated but it is not enough to let us stand firm. We need determination in ourselves. Imagine that education is reachable already to almost everyone in the world but only a few are determined to be educated. They may be in school but they used inappropriately the purpose of the school. They do sex in school or scandal. Have gangs in schools. And other bad things in school. And not just that, they may be in the classroom but they didn't learn anything so much about the lesson because the rely on the seatmate's ideas, answers and opinions. In other words, this people may have shoes in their feet but the are not comfortable with it because the socks is not wore.

So be educated and made the most out of it. Stand on your own with your shoes and socks on.