School STINKS PPL, wake up. ITS freaking STUPID. WE MUST COME TOGETHER, READ ''DUMBING US DOWN'' AND REALIZE THAT THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS BRAINWASHING US INTO THINKING ****. ITS NOT TRUE. PLS WAKE UP...WE HAVE TO DESTROY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND HAVE A MORE POSITIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING. NOT THROUGH AND 8 HOURS PRISON CELL CALLED SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Pls i want to make a difference, im not crazy.
2007-08-11 08:58:25 · 6 answers · asked by curtismayfield? 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I am pretty sympathetic to your plight.
Schooling and education are not necessarily the same thing.
I sat through 8 hours a day of crap (um...finished 15 years ago now) to learn stuff I would never need and can tell you I definately do not remember. I did well at it too, but let me tell you I have never needed any of the good grades I got.
Don't let people try to tell you that you need good grades, or you'll be a bum - it's very blinkered, and just not true.
My kids are entering the school system in September and I will be monitoring closely how they get on. If they tell me at age 13, for instance, that they no longer want to go to school, I won't make them. I will work together with them instead to find out what they do want to do and help them wherever I can to learn whatever they want to. School is not the only answer.
I am a level-headed member of 'Decent Society' - whatever the hell that is, but I fully recognise that our schools fail hundereds of thousands, if not millions of kids annually. The school system aims to teach what 'Our Leaders' in their Ivory towers feel they should learn, not what our kids actually have an interest in and want to learn. The emphasis is on grades, and preparing kids to become competitive units and take their place in a competitive workplace. The result is that a very many leave school, forget what they have learned and end up hating learning, at least for a while (5 years in my case). They often then go on to do a job that anyone leaving school at 16 with no grades can do. Fact.
I recommend the book 'My Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn (as well as his others). He goes into this in greater depth. Chat to your parents. Tell them how you feel. Look for alternatives to help your parents help you.
The system fails many. It also works for many. It is not the system that must be brought down - it is an understanding of the system for what it is and an understanding for what else is out there that must be.
Also know - you are not alone in feeling this way.
2007-08-11 10:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree that our education system could use quite a bit of improvement, but I am not in favor of abolishing it altogether. Education is a good thing, especially structured education. If there is not at least some structure, chaos will reign. That s not cool, because no one will be learning anything.
2007-08-11 09:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by speedytrista07 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the things you are learning or not learning, is self discipline. That is a very painful experience. You are learning what is important in our civilization, our culture. Don't like it? Save your rebellion. Become a teacher so you can change the system. Life is tough, learn to be strong though education.
2007-08-11 10:23:43 · answer #3 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, but I'm not up to joining your "Revolution Team". It's not school that stinks, it's education.
2007-08-11 09:36:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
OK, then, where would you have learned to write this?
You wouldn't be on the net because it wouldn't have been created, just think of the ramifications of your statement!
2007-08-11 15:33:47 · answer #5 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If Darwin was right in his theory, you wouldn't be here right now.
2007-08-11 10:21:22 · answer #6 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋