"Those who know how to work for those who know why."
I once heard a joke that illustrates this topic quite nicely. Fred and George worked for a man named Frank. Fred and George dug a well all day, at the beginning of the work day, they would climb into the hole and proceed to dig until the end of the day. Frank, being the boss, would sit in his lawn chair under an umbrella out of the heat of the sun and drink lemonade all day. One day Fred and George were talking. Fred says, "Why does Frank get to sit up there and drink lemonade all day while were stuck down here digging this hole?".
George was dumbfounded and said, "I dunno. Why don't you go ask him?"
So the next morning before Fred climbed in the hole, he asked Frank why he got to drink lemonade all day while he and George had to dig the hole. Frank answered, "It's because I'm smarter than you." Fred nodded and climbed into the hole. George had Fred relate what happened. After Fred had finished George asked, "Well.. how is he smarter than us?".
Fred said, "I dunno... why don't you go ask him?" So the next morning George did. Frank walked him over to a tree and said, "Now see, I'll show you I'm smarter than you." He put his hand on the tree, "I want you to hit my hand as hard as you can." So George wound up and just before Franks hand was going to get hit, he pulled it away, and George hit the tree. "See, I'm smarter than you," Frank said. And George accepted it and climbed back down the hole. Fred asked George about what the boss had said. George said, "Well, he said he was smarter than us."
"How so?" Asked Fred.
George said, "He did this demonstration," George put his hand over his face, "Hit my hand as hard as you can".
While the joke is a crude example of my point here, it works. Education is everything in today's society. There are only so many jobs you can do while you're still in high school. All of these jobs are entry level (to be the bottom man on the totem poll) and most of them are in fast food or retail industries. There aren't many jobs that open up after graduating high school, but there are many jobs that you must be 18 years of age to do or 21 years of age. It depends on the kind of equipment you will be using to do the job. Most of those jobs that are age restricted don't require a college education. Those who work those kinds of jobs are usually doing heavy labor for little pay.
After completing college, a wide range of fields opens up where you're no longer the bottom man on the totem poll, things like management becomes possible upon starting a job. Assuming we don't restrict jobs based on the kind of degree, or in other words that all degrees are universal, higher paying jobs open up where you become "in charge". For example, upon joining the military out of high school, you start off as an enlisted man. After you get a degree in college and join the military, you start as an officer. The pay difference, and the amount of pull they have with in the organization is so much greater than what an enlisted man has. Being educated benefits more than you, it also benefits the economy. http://icpd2015.org/assets/pdf/Education.pdf
On the other hand, there are some very successful people in the world who never finished college. My soccer coach in high school is a multimillionaire. He is twenty two, he failed out of college, but he owns four businesses he built from the ground up. While education will get you farther than you may otherwise get, there are instances where people are super successful despite all odds. Eminem would be another example. He never finished high school, but he is considered to be one of the best rappers, and he's WHITE! Check out his story. This is an interview with him and CBS news. http://www.eminem.com/blog/default.aspx?nid=30604
For those of you who have never heard Eminem, this is one of my favorites by him.
The statement "those who know how to work for those who know why", revolves around the necessity for education. If no one knew why, or in other words, if no one was educated, there would be no need for those who spend their lives as people who know how to work, or those who are laborers and do the menial tasks.
