The more you learn the less you know.

I'm sure many of you know, or have heard about this phrase, but how many actually understand what it means?

When I was in high school I received mostly C's, and a few D's. I felt like I was stupid and I was unaware of the potential lying dormant inside of me. Back then, the mere mentioning of the word "college" made me angry and uncomfortable because I didn't think I was smart enough to succeed—let alone excel. After high school I went to College of DuPage (COD) where I thought students like me should go.

At that point something snapped. Suddenly, I started doing better in school. I was earning A's and B's. School became easier, maybe it was because I was in a new setting where I wasn't being treated less like a kid and more as a responsible adult. In my high school, I had a graduating class of about 120 students. That was roughly the size of every class in that school. In fact, the whole school is made up of about 462 students currently. This means that everybody knows everybody. That made it hard to change who I was, simply because everyone already knew. At COD I can meet a new face every day and be a new person every day.

As my classes at COD continued I kept getting good grades. At the same time, something else was happening. I was learning; like a lot! There were so many things that I was clueless about in high school, but in college I realized that there is an insurmountable amount of knowledge in the world that I had no clue about. This is also when I realized that the most important thing for me to do in life is to become educated. My teachers have always inspired me more than anything else in my life. They taught me about what it takes to be a decent person and also how to be a successful person.

This is what bothers me when someone (like Donald Trump) says that they know so much and that they're incredibly smart. The reality is that if you were so smart, you would realize how little you actually know. This is where the phrase, "The more you learn the less you know" is applied. The best, and only way to truly understand this phrase, is if you first decide that you want an education, not for the sole purpose getting a job, but for the purpose of improving yourself as a person.

Nowadays people are too focused on what grade they got on that test or in that class. They have forgotten that education is the key to living a happier lifestyle. My parents always told me that society can take away everything you own: money, possessions, housing, but the one thing they can't take away is your education.