Worlds Within Season 3 [Episode 4]

Does mainstream education teach students to emphasize their career track over their life path?

Right from childhood, children are encouraged to envision themselves as doctors, firefighters, and teachers. We are coerced to see ourselves as cogs in a machine on the path to retirement before we even know what’s going on.

If our lives are naturally winding and explorative, why are we being funneled into something so straight and narrow?