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School is to prepare us for our dream careers, I guess. Maybe not our dreams careers but just careers in general - whether it's math and you want to go and engineering. Or if you want to become a history teacher or historian. It doesn't help everybody but it helps most of us.
Read MoreA good life is: 1) to have a house with a good amount of bedrooms; 2) to finish high school and go to college and study construction or to study about cars; 3) to have a good job that can help me afford what I want.
Read MoreA good life would be calm and relaxed - not having to stress about anything, just have it be a good easy life. Then, a good family, and a good job, and an easy death.
Read MorePart of a good life is a sense of accomplishment when you are older. Having the feeling and knowing that you've really gone somewhere - you've really contributed to society. That you've left your lasting mark on the world and you've just really done something special.
Read MoreI was doing a lot of writing and poetry and Mrs. McGovern just encouraged me. She was like "you're a really good writer" and she just kept encouraging me to write. Nobody had ever said that to me before - and nobody said that to me after that either - when I was in school. I felt like for the first time a teacher saw me for who I was rather than just a kid in a in a chair.
Read MoreA good life would probably be to be settled and happy with where I am, and happy with what I'm doing.
Read MoreI hope when my daughter is grown up that she has a job she really enjoys that she feels confident in. I hope that she has meaningful relationships in her life. I hope that she has lots of time beyond work to live a fulfilled life and pursue some of her other passions besides what she's going to do for work. I hope she feels that life is happy and that she's healthy and positive.
Read MoreA good life is being successful - holding a job, having a house, and a dog; any kind of dog.
I think we have school for multiple reasons. I do think it's so our general public is educated - so make sure people learn stuff. But then I also think it's also because parents that need to work can't be caring for their children at all times, so it is a form of child care.
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