{"id":992,"date":"2013-02-27T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-02-27T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:00:53","slug":"self-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/self-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-993\" alt=\"self education\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/self-education-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>College isn&#8217;t for everyone.\u00a0 I think it is obvious but we are still being encouraged to go to a traditional college after high school.\u00a0 While I highly believe in education I think there are other ways of getting it.\u00a0 20 years ago a traditional school may have been your best option, however, there is such easy access to material that self education can give you more knowledge than going to college.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go to college for the experience then go for it.\u00a0 If you want to go because it is necessary for the path you want to live in life then go for it.\u00a0 If you are going &#8220;because I&#8217;m suppose to&#8221; then do yourself a favor and take local classes and read books in the field that interests you.<\/p>\n<p>Walt Disney didn&#8217;t go past his freshman year in high school but continued to educate himself through books and experiences his entire life.\u00a0 Let me stress &#8211; FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, but explore all of your options for higher education and choose the best for you and not what is expected of you by others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College isn&#8217;t for everyone.\u00a0 I think it is obvious but we are still being encouraged to go to a traditional college after high school.\u00a0 While I highly believe in education I think there are other ways of getting it.\u00a0 20 years ago a traditional school may have been your best option, however, there is such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9,12,16],"tags":[263,307,471,518,627],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","category-goal-setting","category-life-coaching","category-people","tag-henry-ford","tag-keep-learning","tag-read","tag-self-education","tag-walt-disney","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qxKv-g0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}