Do your believe school ruined your outlook on life?

Question

If so, what happened or didn't happen at school that made you think this way?

Answer 1

I don't have problem with my outlook on life - but I don't think that school is really a healthy environment for learning. The conformity required to process all those kids too often stamps out individuality and creativity - and makes life far too hard for those who are different.

When you think about the origin of our current education system, you realize most people learned at home or by apprenticeship, until the industrial revolution - and public school solved 2 problems for the industrial revolution:

1 - what to do with the children while both parents worked in the factories
2 - where to get the workers of tomorrow (the kind that stay in their seat, do as they are told and accept what is given to them by authority as fact)

Our whole society and culture has been warped by school - don't you think?

Peace!

Answer 2

No. I really don't think it has ruined it. Education is a very important thing. Maybe the MOST important thing. It changes the way you view the world and enriches your life. However, what I do not like about school is the conformity, hate, and intolerance being dished out by teachers and students everyday. As some other people have already said; school makes it too hard for people who are different. And it also shames those who are do not do thier work or are slower than others.

The worst part of school is, the part where it teaches kids to hate thier education rather than enjoying the fun of learning. They are forced to do pointless assignments that are time consuming and forced to conform to the will of the teachers- who determine if you get an A or an F. Instead of being able to enjoy understanding concepts and the joy of learning something new, students must memorize information and spit it back out.

It truly is sad that the school system is like this. But, it prepares you for the real world. The school system is similar to the real world, no?

Answer 3

It didn't ruin mine. It confused me many times, but it just exposed me to some different viewpoints (which helped my social skills develop). But as for others...

I've noticed that children are naturally very curious. But school is designed to acclimate us to working within systems (being employees of a government, military or company). Thus, it exposes us to a multitude of different subject matter in such a compulsory way that by college, most people are so sick of other stuff that they only want to know the minimum they need to know so that they can get that wonderful job, doing something very specific to the exclusion of other lines of thought.

As to whether there is a massive conspiracy at work, my inner leftist gives that a big Hell Yeah... but as I've grown a little older, I realize that my (the USA) government can't even conspiratize a war without being brutally obvious. A national (international?) conspiracy sounds a few levels above the ken of such a bunch of bumbling elites.

I get the feeling that between inertia, the personal desires of whatever management happens to be in place, and whatever seems cheapest and easiest right now, school generally is what it is. Public school is cheaper than day care, and what would children do when they're too young to get jobs, but allowed to go and do whatever they want? I wish I could give an all-over positive answer to that question, but come on...

If 1 kid out of 100 went out roamin' angry or mischievous (possibly without any education to provide peaceful ideas), we're talking tens of thousands of kids. That may have been how terrorism was invented in some ancient country, we'll never know.

As-is, school is pretty much just the default until we can come up with something better. And it's been that way for hundreds of years, so I'd bet against anyone successfully changing it overnight.

Answer 4

yes i think school ruined everything, it wastes most of your life, the only reason why everyone goes to school is because its the only way to have some decent future cause if we could all have a future without going to school i think everyone would do it that way instead
we could all be doing something better in out lives than learning things that dont even matter

Answer 5

No. Being in school was one of the best things that have ever happened in my life. It never affected my outlook on life.

Answer 6

yes. school ruined everything for me. If there were no school or if we could go whenever we wanted instead of the MAN telling us when and where and what grade to be in then i would be a totaly different person.

Answer 7

Going to school--and that includes through graduate school--has enriched my life immensely, opeing me up to so many things I would never have encountered and allowing me to develop my own intelligence and increasing my level of appreciation for things. As a consequence I am never bored but can always find stimulation within just in my thoughts or in little (and big) things in the world around me that I can understand and evaluate.

Answer 8

Only certain aspects of it. It made me realize that their are some real bad people out there that don't really care and only talk to you cause either they want something or they wanna be cool

Answer 9

Any one who writes text books or who teaches has a point of view. Mad Magazine helped keep me in balance.

Answer 10

I just think that if there wasnt school, i could be doing better things with my time. like cocaine.

or maybe there should be school but it should be only 4 years not your whole ******* childhood.