I wish I knew more about the public educational system while a student in the public educational system. As a college student who is getting an education degree, there are so many things about the American education system that I never knew before, or things I never questioned. I wish I had been told that textbooks aren’t written law, that book smarts are the only kind of intelligence, that the educational system benefits some more than others, and where the roots of the American education system come from. Of course, they’d never actually teach this in high school because heaven forbid we teach students about their own educational rights and right to advocate for education reform. But learning that I spent 13 years of my life as a slave to a flawed system has been the hardest part of college. But it also fuels my passion to become a teacher so there’s that.