When we meet new people why do we introduce ourself by what we are
doing for a living and our education?
In my opinion education says
more about your social background than it says something about you as a person. Where
you are born in the world and into which social class are factors that are
participation in decision-making your education. By this I mean that your
social environment is having a big influence in deciding your education. If your parents are arcademics, then there's a good change that you will too.
“What is the more important,
genes or the social environment in which you are growing up in?” I believe that we
all are very different people that have very diverse skills. We all have
something we are good at, and you have to figure it out for yourself. I don’t
believe that we all have the ability and potential to become e.g. a mathematics
professor. You will not be the next Mozart – even if you’re as skilled or even
more than him – if you’re not growing up in a musical family where your musical skills are
being stimulated. If your potential are not being stimulated then you will not realize
that you are talented and achieve full potential . This can be illustrated by this quote
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid – Albert Einstein.
I can hereby say that education
says more about your social background than you as a person.
You could therefore ask the
question: If you should not introduce yourself to new people with your
occupation, then what should it be?
