What do you think about school?

[Whtttheflip 123]

The fact that I have to stay 6 hours quietly and still, listening to a teacher spitting information I don't care about gives me chills when I wake up at 6:30 in the morning after sleeping only for 6 hours because of all the homework I had to do. If I do the homework, I will lose 1 or 2 hours of sleep, which means I will be really sleepy in class and the teacher will embarass me saying in front of everyone else how bad it is not to sleep and that I'm not listening, but if I don't do it, the teacher will ask why and embarass me saying in front of the class how doing homework and getting good grades is the way to get a good, stable job. I would agree with that if they taught things like how to get a job, how to work on your talents, how to not waste money... but we all know that isn't the case. Instead, they teach random things that only a few people are going to use, thinking that we all think the same way and should follow the same path to get a mediocre job, work your ass off, get your money and go back home, without living your life to the fullest.

 

When I tell a teacher or my parents that I want to study math all the way up to calculus 3 (or more if there are more advanced levels) and then study other subjects, I always get an answer like "I know you like math, but..."

 

"...life is not only about math" Like if I never said I wanted to study more subjects after I finish with math.

 

"...you are only 15. You have to study things you don't like before studying the things you like" Like if that made any sense. Curiosity is something you just have and you need to feed before it's too late. You are only killing it by making me learn things I don't care about. If you made me curious about your subject, I would gladly even search information about it by myself.

 

"..studying by yourself won't give you a title" I know it won't, but I don't really see the need to have a paper saying I can do something, when I can just go ahead and do it, giving more proof that I can do it than a piece of paper.

 

"...You can't get out of the system. You have to adapt to it." Well... a system where the student has to adapt to it, isn't really useful since the point of education should be to adapt to the student and prepare them for the future.

 

"...what you are taught in school is useful for real life" I'm still waiting for a reason why it is useful. Also, if it's so useful, how is it possible that you don't know everything you've been taught in school, but you are still alive?

 

"...you can't always get the job you want" Yes,I know that, but I would rather be in my death bed thinking of how at least I tried for my whole life but failed every time than wishing I tried to do it instead of doing something I don't like.

 

 

Their way of teaching things by memorization and then write everything in a test is terrible. It kills creativity and curiosity, two traits geniuses like albert einstein or stephen hawking have. The teachers' way of motivating you to do things is by fear of what happens when you don't do them instead of by the joy of learning something new. I can't believe something so important is so broken.

 

 

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Sorry, I needed to write my feelings somewhere. Now I need to write an essay about an old book for school and I'm going to try to use the least effort possible just to finish it quickly.

 

So, what do you think about school?

[Black Sabbath 2,484]

I like school since it allows me to get the education I need to get the job I want. Plus, I get free food.  

 

Don't get me wrong, there are more than a few problems but the positive outweighs the negative if you ask me. 

Edited February 20, 2017 by Yamet

[Dreambiscuit 8,023]

School is evil. At least it was for me. I only started to truly learn after I got away from it. It's people with limited imagination who like to say you can't get a job without it. I never had difficulty getting jobs, and I dropped out of formal school after eighth grade. If you have a specific career in mind that requires a lengthy education and specialized credentials, I guess you have to play the game, unless you have skills in forging your own documents. But in that case I wouldn't try being a doctor or anything like that. But if you did want to become a doctor, etc, my guess is you would take an interest in learning the trade rather than drudge through the many pointless other subjects your forced to digest in school. Specialized and selected learning is one thing, but school in general is a system that doesn't work, at least not for me. 

[Mast. Equestos/Gigas 340]

School for ma had its ups and downs as it did towards everyone. Education is key in life as to further production in certain subjects to increase the limits of the human mind. 

 

As for other subjects in school, I do say that creative and artistic ones. Like ceramics or cooking classes are the ones I really enjoy. Heck, even mathematics and chemistry. 

 

Gym is no problem too me and biology as well. The only thing I had a bit of trouble is with english. Since, back then it took me a while to come up with things say or write.

 

Yet I managed to break through that and improve as time goes by. Pretty sure everyone had this too and gone through their weaknesses to make he/she stronger. Both mind and body.

 

So, in summery school is definitely important and should not be missed on any week days or week ends in case in detention.  

Edited February 20, 2017 by Unovas

[gamecubeguy214 2,511]

Since school is so important and considering how bad I am at it, it's pretty much my daily reminder that I will be a failure.

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

School is useful but only to a point. I think after 3rd grade the content you learn slowly becomes fruitless. The only important information you really need in High School is history, and financial classes. The thing I hated the most was writing 5 paragraph essays on bullshit you could answer in a single sentence... I'm pretty sure that's what killed all love I had in writing.

[cmarston1 5,951]

I was always rather indifferent to school, I came in, did my job, and did my best to get good grades, but it's not like it was my favorite thing in the world or anything.

[Catpone Cerberus 23,426]

I would lie if I said that I like school but it is useful, and it is the requirement for a job even if some of the things you learn are pretty useless on the long run and you don't learn anything that is straight work related.

 

But the point that schools do it kinda wrong, is kinda right. 

[Sovereign Leader Rarity 12,000]

SCHOOL????????!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

School is a miserable garbage prison which takes pleasure teaching them unessacary skills that they will never need in their life, demanding that they scocialise with the antagonistic filth that are today's generation, and even having the sheer Gaul to follow them to their place of residence, a constant shadow looming over their heads. And for 5 years ( I live in the UK ) there is NOTHING you can do about it.

 

Homeschool your children, it'll save them from the god awful experience of high school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burn school. BURN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Burn it and urinate on it's ashes!!! Put a shopping mall on top of it!!! I don't care, just get RID OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TBD 17,228]

I think school is double blade. It good because it give you the education bluh bluh, but when you're finish with it, 70% of what you learn is never going to be use in a real world. Its all hands down experiences with a little back knowledge that you will eventually will learn along the way. 

[Props Valroa 26,023]

I hate it. But I only tolerate it because I have friends.

[BlueStreak98 828]

I detested school. I was pretty bright from a young age, which meant most of it bored me to tears, then surpassed me. I never did get useful help from much of anyone. I also grew up in a fairly small district, which meant people got an impression of you by about 2nd or 3rd grade and nothing you did short of hard drugs would change people's minds after that. Oh, and the food sucked, too. Even by school food standards, my high school had really bad food. 

 

That being said, I did generally enjoy elementary school. It was just all downhill after 5th grade. There were some good classes here and there after that, but it didn't make up for the therapy I need because of the rest of it.

Edited February 21, 2017 by BlueStreak98

[Invincible 2,090]

I don't know how it is in your place, but schools try to teach you a bit of everything. You're supposed to realize your strengths on your own and pursue a career and a lifestyle that suits them.

 

Problem is when you're a teenager and your mind is elsewhere, and you have no pressing need for thinking of your future. Lots of people that did poorly at highschool will have to work harder to apply at a decent academic institution.

 

On the flip side, you can get pretty good higher education here. So it evens out.

[Zyrael 1,471]

schooling takes many forms but the best is what you prescribe to yourself. 

[Solid 1,326]

You spend most of the time there learning how to make somebody else rich.

[Ganondorf8 11,118]

The only things I never liked about school were the final exams and how the grades for each assignment--including the assignment itself and how many of them there were--were handled. These things always worried me throughout the term and I dreaded when I had to either hand in the assignment or go in for the exam. The exception were the online courses in which I could submit assignments at any time, within good reason of course.

[StormBlaze 991]

im 26 and left school when I was 18....... and my god do I miss it. I'd change so much though if I went back in time. Back when I was in school, I was a FLuttershy person and I hated myself for it. Now im all about being loud and social and showing off what I can do, and I just wish I had that confidence 10 years ago.

I did manage to break that mental mold but it was when I was in my final year, i sung solo in front of the whole school. Biggest achievement of my life it felt like, but i utterly regret not doing it in the earlier years, as I got a boost in popularity from it from other students and from the teachers.

 

another regret I had was my senior year choices x.x ugh why. I shouldve gone with History in the end, but no I did the silly thing of assuming ICT was going to be all about web design. NOPE!

 

Anyway im rambling,  dont take school for granted kids.... you never know where you'll end up in life after you leave. It took me 7 years to finally settle and get my life on track and now im really happy. but my god do I miss being in school sometimes. 

[BritishBrony2012 719]

School is a place of learning, it important to learn and be teach. But There be idoits who judge others and bully and some teacher who are diffcult and make school life tough and even don't help bully vicum and even support bully or can't be bother to do anything.

 

Would I love to get back to school, even now I'm 32, my parents told me they wish to be at school, me never why do people think that.

[Monsoon 1,648]

I honestly think the system where I live needs to be improved so that we're learning things which are applicable to our lives I would rather be learning mathematics that I'll more likely use compared to having to learn things I'll most likely never use another complaint would be the bratty kids that get a kick from bullying others

[碇 シンジン 27,427]

School as a education system at least here is really good and useful and I like it. But school as a community was a place where I couldn't fit in and they just made fun of me. 

[Frostgage 7,972]

I was homeschooled from the middle of 3rd grade on so I can't say much about the K-12 system (as I think it's called!). But I'm in college at the moment and enjoy it. It's tiring at times but very satisfactory overall to get things done

[Here No Longer 5,270]

As in, my experiences personally? I was meh about it. I liked learning new things, but the social BS drove me crazy.

As in, the education system here? It's completely awful. The US is hardly even average in the area... -_-

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,410]

I used to be just like you. I hated school with a fiery passion. Wait until you get into the real world. You will beg to go back to school. Life hasn't even begun to kick your ass yet.

[ThunderCrush 1,850]

I just think that a did not have enough time to really memorize what I was learning before moving on to another topic, mostly in math i refer to this.

[Messy Mane 9,006]

Meh,

I won't have to think about School for a few months.the School year has already ended for me today.