[Alex]

For a lot of people school is to have fun, become popular, and learn "life lessons". For other people its to learn and get ready for your career ahead. For some people they just want to get it over with and start "life".


Just wondering what your thoughts on school are.

[Cl0ud]

Fucking pointless and you'll never use half of the shit you learn.

Exactly.
I never knew the point to learn the literature even.
In my words school is a place to have fun, and learn how to live everyday life.
School teaches us a new lesson about life, be attentive don't even miss a single lesson.

[BlueScreen]

I feel that the first 10 years are okay, since you do learn a lot of important lessons during this amount of time, but after that it's just the same shit over and over again.

[Evangelist]

School is not just for learning, math or how to write you can learn anywhere. School is a place where they teach you how to be on time, how to properly behave in a faculty and most importantly, how to have communication skills. This is why if you compare a person that takes online class with a person that goes to school, the person that goes to school has a way better communication rate.

School it's not pointless like that other member said, it does way more than you realize.

[Alex]

School is not just for learning, math or how to write you can learn anywhere. School is a place where they teach you how to be on time, how to properly behave in a faculty and most importantly, how to have communication skills. This is why if you compare a person that takes online class with a person that goes to school, the person that goes to school has a way better communication rate.

School it's not pointless like that other member said, it does way more than you realize.

There is a lot of anti social people at school, people who get bullied etc.

[Hypothermia]

Besides getting expelled twice in three years of high school, I actually made a lot of friends. But, at this point anything I can learn at school is pretty much useless, and it's easier to make good friends online, and you can still socialize. I guess it depends on the person, but I can socially develop without seeing a real person for days. I do not have any sleeping structure, though. Hell, I just woke up.
Personally, I don't need school, I can set a time schedule if I'm working nights with no problem. After middle school, I learned nothing I will have any application for in life, even my computer class wasn't doing anything I couldn't do myself. My friends weren't real friends, they just talked to me to kill boredom. They aren't people I would trust with my life, so why bother with them?
If you go to a legitimate school until high school and make good friends before then, you will be fine. Then just go to an online school and teach yourself real skills.

[Evangelist]

School is not just for learning, math or how to write you can learn anywhere. School is a place where they teach you how to be on time, how to properly behave in a faculty and most importantly, how to have communication skills. This is why if you compare a person that takes online class with a person that goes to school, the person that goes to school has a way better communication rate.

School it's not pointless like that other member said, it does way more than you realize.

There is a lot of anti social people at school, people who get bullied etc.

Is that really the best point you could make to my initial argument?

Regardless of the actions of certain individuals, the general goal of school is to prepare and train students for real world experiences, and to do that they create a social atmosphere, whether or not you fit the goal is still there and you are still part of the training.

[Cole]

Alright, so it seems to me that everyone shares bits and pieces of my opinion on school, but no one shares the exact idea.

School is an unnecessary necessity. It is important to have because you do need to learn the basics of a focused curriculum. You need to learn how to interact with people, both peers and "superiors," on a regular basis. You need to learn how to manage tasks, balance those tasks and your personal life, maintain a schedule, etc., as well as the basic cores of mathematics, sciences, social sciences, and literature. You need to learn to make friends and bonds between people so that life can be made easier (by asking favors and helping others). You need to experience the darker side of it, where illegal actions take place (such as selling test answers, plagiarizing important assignments, and selling drugs), so that you can see what is socially acceptable and unacceptable in life.

However, school is incredibly poorly designed. The curriculum for any and every subject you may require - at least here in the US - are long, drawn out, over-killed, and created to be as dumb as conceivably possible to allow all students a fair shot. The problem with this logic is that you are killing the brains of anyone with an IQ over 17, because no one wants to learn, for example, the parabolic equation in algebra for 3 weeks straight. It is poorly designed to meet the needs of even the most idiotic of people, and when you can't remain compatible with it for the entirety of your school career, you are punished by the educational system.

There is no need for the ludicrous amount of projects that are assigned, the idea of homework literally accomplishes nothing, and both are incorporated to be the biggest parts of the educational system that we know as school. If schools wanted students to succeed more, create a better, faster curriculum that doesn't make students want to pull their hair out, remove the 6 hours of homework a night, and make the projects something that the students actually look forward to.

Otherwise, all school is going to stay is a place where you learn the social aspects of life, the basics of the human knowledge essentials, a place that will make you wish that half of the world didn't exist, and a place that will ultimately shape you into the person you are going to grow up to be. (And no one necessarily said that was a good thing.)

[Cole]

A place to learn required skills.

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So you're telling me that no one with an IQ above 17 wants to learn advanced math, and that giving you big numbers hurts your brain? lol.

But I do agree that a lot of curriculum should be optional, there are a lot of unnecessary things taught in school.

Begone foul troll! Thou art not welcomed here!

[Fraser]

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