Shifting perspective on higher learning
I spent much of my life with an aversion to higher learning, academia. Putting it out there, I was an abject failure at university. I entered the University of Saskatchewan on a pre-med path but after one semester realized it was not for me. I transferred to the arts side of things but never got my footing. Most of my energies were being diverted to acting and producing theatre at St. Thomas More College. After two years I said goodbye to my university life and entered the workforce. Working at a post-secondary institution for 15 years, I was exposed to many kinds of academics. Some were very generous and passionate, others were less so. Some were downright nasty. My aversion grew in those years and grew even more when I was passed over for excellent opportunities only because I didn't have a few letters after my name. That made me downright resentful, mistrusting, and unappreciative of universities, higher learning and those who reverentially boasted about their degrees. T...
