Face it. In school we learn nothing. Aside from maybe some formulas or something, most of the content you learn doesn’t really pertain to you unless your career is related to it. And even that kind of stuff, you aren’t learning. I quote an old teacher of mine (and I paraphrase here).
The only thing we learn in school is regurgitation.
Quite so. We are not actually learning, like we do at home or as toddlers – where we learn from “trial and error” and the likes. All we do is get random facts hammered into our brains. Then a week later, we don’t utilize those facts – all we had to do was memorize them. Then we spit them back out onto a test. Hooray, I passed the test. Then you forget this information. That was very helpful.
Of course there’s tons of excuses the districts and all have. But it’s apparent for everyone, even most teachers, that we aren’t actually learning too much that will be put to use – especially when we don’t have a choice in what to learn (at least not to a specific point).
I learned more over the summer that’ll be put to use in my future than I will in school this year – even silly things such as how to navigate the towering aisles of our local Benjamin Moore.
It sounds like a useless point of information, but I tell you this much – it will be much more useful in my life than learning about the Electoral College (which equally sucks by the way).
And perhaps the most notable point of all - you should find something you are good at and enjoy and study it. We can’t do that in school.
Now I must leave you for a time, because I think the Principal has arrived at my doorstep with his harpoon gun.
