I’m glad that many are loosing their illusion of actually learning in schools. I’m returning to college for my final year and I keep asking myself: “What have I learned so far?”
We learn, memorize, spit it back for the exam, hopefully get good grades and, it’s all forgotten. Years ago, I wrote that western education is just a cause to conformity. We are being coerced into learning certain things, acquire knowledge to keep us readily in line and have us obey orders. Reminds me of the pigs in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’.
I don’t like being made to learn what I wouldn’t need, I hate that I really never learn anything, just being thought so I could recite back to my instructor. Maybe I’m just been too harsh. School gives knowledge, knowledge brings power.
Among this good grass that school attempts to so, there are weed which must be dealt with. I’m looking forward to this semester hoping I learn and keep it in my memory past the next four months.
If you’re going back to school, have an awesome semester.
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