RE: What is school? 12-03-2013, 11:55 PM
#8
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.)
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.)
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