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Ignorance is bliss. Somebody actually wrote that, you know. Of course, the fact that someone else was ignorant enough to take it out of context and seemingly use it for a whole generation is proof enough that ignorance leads to some very sad cases indeed.
School.
Learning stuff in school is hard, do you think it should be any other way. Ok, so it can also be fun in the right hands, with the right teacher taking the lesson. History could be really really boring given a chance, but to many (and, I hope, many that I taught) it was pretty worthwhile. English and maths may well seem pointless now, but I’ve seen those sad losers in the supermarket who have to carry a calculator around with them. I mean, what is this, America or something?
Alright, so you don’t fit in at school. No one is asking you to be exactly the same as everyone else, just to stick to at least some of the rules while you’re there, if only to help other people in the same situation as you. You may think it cool and clever to disrupt the class, but that’s because you’re probably the same sort of prat that thinks it’s clever to crank call the fire brigade while a fire is burning somewhere else.
Life
You know those things they have in libraries? Yes, those paper things with the covers. They’re called books. Librarys around the country see numbers of members drop each year. A small part of that is because of the Internet (bless its little cotton socks) , but for the main part it’s that people don’t care anymore about learning something new. There are people that think you can learn everything you need to know from the TV. These are the sort of people that con men love so much, as they can ultimately believe anything. There are even people living today that believe the news stories in The Sun. Unbelievable!
With the dawn of the Internet age both at home and at school, there is no excuse left for not researching something that might interest you or finding out more about other places, other people and almost anything you could ever hope to find out about anything. Learning is part of evolution and we rely on having a good knowledge of science and technology to better our lives. Learning about other religions and cultures helps us to appreciate them, learning about our own language helps us communicate and even appreciate the arts. Learning about History can help us to predict what happens in the future and prevent the same mistakes that happened to our ancestors.
Knowledge is power, but more importantly, knowledge is life, without it you might as well go back to being an amoeba.
School.
Learning stuff in school is hard, do you think it should be any other way. Ok, so it can also be fun in the right hands, with the right teacher taking the lesson. History could be really really boring given a chance, but to many (and, I hope, many that I taught) it was pretty worthwhile. English and maths may well seem pointless now, but I’ve seen those sad losers in the supermarket who have to carry a calculator around with them. I mean, what is this, America or something?
Alright, so you don’t fit in at school. No one is asking you to be exactly the same as everyone else, just to stick to at least some of the rules while you’re there, if only to help other people in the same situation as you. You may think it cool and clever to disrupt the class, but that’s because you’re probably the same sort of prat that thinks it’s clever to crank call the fire brigade while a fire is burning somewhere else.
Life
You know those things they have in libraries? Yes, those paper things with the covers. They’re called books. Librarys around the country see numbers of members drop each year. A small part of that is because of the Internet (bless its little cotton socks) , but for the main part it’s that people don’t care anymore about learning something new. There are people that think you can learn everything you need to know from the TV. These are the sort of people that con men love so much, as they can ultimately believe anything. There are even people living today that believe the news stories in The Sun. Unbelievable!
With the dawn of the Internet age both at home and at school, there is no excuse left for not researching something that might interest you or finding out more about other places, other people and almost anything you could ever hope to find out about anything. Learning is part of evolution and we rely on having a good knowledge of science and technology to better our lives. Learning about other religions and cultures helps us to appreciate them, learning about our own language helps us communicate and even appreciate the arts. Learning about History can help us to predict what happens in the future and prevent the same mistakes that happened to our ancestors.
Knowledge is power, but more importantly, knowledge is life, without it you might as well go back to being an amoeba.
What's an amoeba?? - Or is that your point!?
I don't like libraries, and I find that I use the net a lot more to look up and research stuff, rather than read through pages and pages of boredom that i've been already been told during a 45 minute lesson!
What I learn, I learn from school. I don't really learn anything from TV or the net, and I think that when people say you don't learn anything from watching TV all day, you really don't!
I've been doing a Personal Investigation on Surrealism for Art this year, and i've found that i've learnt quite a bit that I never knew before! Not only about the movement itself, but also about some of the Surrealists, mainly Salvador Dalí.
So to learn something, you reall have to do something about it, and I don't think you really learn all that much if you just sit there reading the whole time. You need to do something constructive, like an activity or project, where you can reflect on it.
I don't like libraries, and I find that I use the net a lot more to look up and research stuff, rather than read through pages and pages of boredom that i've been already been told during a 45 minute lesson!
What I learn, I learn from school. I don't really learn anything from TV or the net, and I think that when people say you don't learn anything from watching TV all day, you really don't!
I've been doing a Personal Investigation on Surrealism for Art this year, and i've found that i've learnt quite a bit that I never knew before! Not only about the movement itself, but also about some of the Surrealists, mainly Salvador Dalí.
So to learn something, you reall have to do something about it, and I don't think you really learn all that much if you just sit there reading the whole time. You need to do something constructive, like an activity or project, where you can reflect on it.
Ignorance is bliss. Somebody actually wrote that, you know. Of course, the fact that someone else was ignorant enough to take it out of context and seemingly use it for a whole generation is proof enough that ignorance leads to some very sad cases indeed.
School.
Learning stuff in school is hard, do you think it should be any other way. Ok, so it can also be fun in the right hands, with the right teacher taking the lesson. History could be really really boring given a chance, but to many (and, I hope, many that I taught) it was pretty worthwhile. English and maths may well seem pointless now, but I’ve seen those sad losers in the supermarket who have to carry a calculator around with them. I mean, what is this, America or something?
Alright, so you don’t fit in at school. No one is asking you to be exactly the same as everyone else, just to stick to at least some of the rules while you’re there, if only to help other people in the same situation as you. You may think it cool and clever to disrupt the class, but that’s because you’re probably the same sort of prat that thinks it’s clever to crank call the fire brigade while a fire is burning somewhere else.
Life
You know those things they have in libraries? Yes, those paper things with the covers. They’re called books. Librarys around the country see numbers of members drop each year. A small part of that is because of the Internet (bless its little cotton socks) , but for the main part it’s that people don’t care anymore about learning something new. There are people that think you can learn everything you need to know from the TV. These are the sort of people that con men love so much, as they can ultimately believe anything. There are even people living today that believe the news stories in The Sun. Unbelievable!
With the dawn of the Internet age both at home and at school, there is no excuse left for not researching something that might interest you or finding out more about other places, other people and almost anything you could ever hope to find out about anything. Learning is part of evolution and we rely on having a good knowledge of science and technology to better our lives. Learning about other religions and cultures helps us to appreciate them, learning about our own language helps us communicate and even appreciate the arts. Learning about History can help us to predict what happens in the future and prevent the same mistakes that happened to our ancestors.
Knowledge is power, but more importantly, knowledge is life, without it you might as well go back to being an amoeba.
School.
Learning stuff in school is hard, do you think it should be any other way. Ok, so it can also be fun in the right hands, with the right teacher taking the lesson. History could be really really boring given a chance, but to many (and, I hope, many that I taught) it was pretty worthwhile. English and maths may well seem pointless now, but I’ve seen those sad losers in the supermarket who have to carry a calculator around with them. I mean, what is this, America or something?
Alright, so you don’t fit in at school. No one is asking you to be exactly the same as everyone else, just to stick to at least some of the rules while you’re there, if only to help other people in the same situation as you. You may think it cool and clever to disrupt the class, but that’s because you’re probably the same sort of prat that thinks it’s clever to crank call the fire brigade while a fire is burning somewhere else.
Life
You know those things they have in libraries? Yes, those paper things with the covers. They’re called books. Librarys around the country see numbers of members drop each year. A small part of that is because of the Internet (bless its little cotton socks) , but for the main part it’s that people don’t care anymore about learning something new. There are people that think you can learn everything you need to know from the TV. These are the sort of people that con men love so much, as they can ultimately believe anything. There are even people living today that believe the news stories in The Sun. Unbelievable!
With the dawn of the Internet age both at home and at school, there is no excuse left for not researching something that might interest you or finding out more about other places, other people and almost anything you could ever hope to find out about anything. Learning is part of evolution and we rely on having a good knowledge of science and technology to better our lives. Learning about other religions and cultures helps us to appreciate them, learning about our own language helps us communicate and even appreciate the arts. Learning about History can help us to predict what happens in the future and prevent the same mistakes that happened to our ancestors.
Knowledge is power, but more importantly, knowledge is life, without it you might as well go back to being an amoeba.