Ditch your education/get a success

[Rachel Adams]

This is about giving a person advice. The other speaker thinks getting education doesn't always guarantee success.

"Don't hurry/rush to ditch your education. If someone gets a success, doesn't mean the same will happen to you. Don't project their lives onto yourself."

By saying hurry/rush to ditch your education, I mean "hurry/rush to give up your education. Is "gets a success" idiomatic?

 

[emsr2d2]

"Success" is generally uncountable* so we don't use it with an article. "If someone gets success" isn't natural. Use "If someone is successful ...".

*Strangely, we do use "successes" as a countable noun - the plural is OK but the singular isn't. Don't you love English?!

 

[Rachel Adams]

"Success" is generally uncountable* so we don't use it with an article. "If someone gets success" isn't natural. Use "If someone is successful ...".

*Strangely, we do use "successes" as a countable noun - the plural is OK but the singular isn't. Don't you love English?!

Yes, I love English . Is the rest of my piece correct? Especially "hurry/rush to ditch education.'

 

[Tarheel]

It seems that you are talking about going to college. (That's what this conversation is usually about.) You might say that some people do quite well without a college education, but that doesn't work for everybody. In other words, most should finish college.

If you tell me not to "ditch" something I would think you are telling me not to get rid of something I already have.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It seems that you are talking about going to college. (That's what this conversation is usually about.) You might say that some people do quite well without a college education, but that doesn't work for everybody. In other words, most should finish college.

If you tell me not to "ditch" something I would think you are telling me not to get rid of something I already have.

If it's about the person who is already studying, then would "ditch" work with either "hurry" or "rush"?

 

[emsr2d2]

I would find it more natural to say something like "Don't be in a rush to quit/leave school/college".

 

[probus]

In the American idiom quitting school or college is often called dropping out.