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Why are people so naturally afraid of themselves?
It's a question I ask myself every time I have to do school work and coursework. It's all utterly pointless, but I'm not allowed to pack it in, "just in case".
Just in case of what? Just in case I've been wrong about having fun all these years? "No, that's not fun, you're wrong. You know you can't be happy without money."
But that's the key to it all. I want to work for logic, not for grades.
If to get to where I want to, I have to scrub floors, pull turds out of toliets and sandpaper people's feet, I will gladly. I'd rather know what it is to be human, than have to sit on a chair, read a book for a while, sit an exam, and then be labelled "above average".
No longer should we judge those on two poxy hours of their life. People aren't tins of soup, we're human, and we're as human as they get.
I want to never, ever apply for a job when the only credientials I have to pass are what my exam grades are. I promise you I will not be happy in that job.
A job isn't something you do so you can raise enough money to go out and drink yourself stupid so you can wipe away the bad memories of having that job... it's pathetic, and it's what's drummed into us from day one. The exam system is so utterly, utterly flawed... but the problem is?
Kids would say that anyway, so why listen to them?
Adults don't care. They're past that now.
There's nobody in between. Anybody who raises a voice is either an angry parent "just write a letter of apology for the mess up in the exams, and put in a few leaflets about how exams affect chances of getting a job"... or they're mad.
I'm mad, I know, but I'm right. Exams should not exist. The basic education system is great, but that's where it should stop. As long as people have a basic understanding of how to read, write, do math... anything that we can really apply to our life because of evolution... but then stop.
So much time is wasted on GCSE's, A-Levels, and now these stupid AS Levels as well... instead, why aren't we encouraged to find something that we enjoy, that we can look further into?
Hey? You like drawing? Let me see what I can find for you.
You like to write stories? Let's have a look at that then.
We're so discouraged as children, to be forced into such horrible methods of "education". All we're learning is the world is a terrible place, full of people that have jobs so they don't die, not so they can live life.
And we're becoming like our parents. Fearful in a world where the only answer to questions are "well, that's life". No it isn't, and no it shouldn't be. They'll easily accuse us of being naive and immature, and yet expect us to decide what job we want, and what we want to do with the rest of our lives.
It's pointless, and I'm fed up with it.
It's a question I ask myself every time I have to do school work and coursework. It's all utterly pointless, but I'm not allowed to pack it in, "just in case".
Just in case of what? Just in case I've been wrong about having fun all these years? "No, that's not fun, you're wrong. You know you can't be happy without money."
But that's the key to it all. I want to work for logic, not for grades.
If to get to where I want to, I have to scrub floors, pull turds out of toliets and sandpaper people's feet, I will gladly. I'd rather know what it is to be human, than have to sit on a chair, read a book for a while, sit an exam, and then be labelled "above average".
No longer should we judge those on two poxy hours of their life. People aren't tins of soup, we're human, and we're as human as they get.
I want to never, ever apply for a job when the only credientials I have to pass are what my exam grades are. I promise you I will not be happy in that job.
A job isn't something you do so you can raise enough money to go out and drink yourself stupid so you can wipe away the bad memories of having that job... it's pathetic, and it's what's drummed into us from day one. The exam system is so utterly, utterly flawed... but the problem is?
Kids would say that anyway, so why listen to them?
Adults don't care. They're past that now.
There's nobody in between. Anybody who raises a voice is either an angry parent "just write a letter of apology for the mess up in the exams, and put in a few leaflets about how exams affect chances of getting a job"... or they're mad.
I'm mad, I know, but I'm right. Exams should not exist. The basic education system is great, but that's where it should stop. As long as people have a basic understanding of how to read, write, do math... anything that we can really apply to our life because of evolution... but then stop.
So much time is wasted on GCSE's, A-Levels, and now these stupid AS Levels as well... instead, why aren't we encouraged to find something that we enjoy, that we can look further into?
Hey? You like drawing? Let me see what I can find for you.
You like to write stories? Let's have a look at that then.
We're so discouraged as children, to be forced into such horrible methods of "education". All we're learning is the world is a terrible place, full of people that have jobs so they don't die, not so they can live life.
And we're becoming like our parents. Fearful in a world where the only answer to questions are "well, that's life". No it isn't, and no it shouldn't be. They'll easily accuse us of being naive and immature, and yet expect us to decide what job we want, and what we want to do with the rest of our lives.
It's pointless, and I'm fed up with it.
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SHEEPY wrote:
> Chemistry Prelim - I got the hardest questions right and got 46%
>
> Meh
I really wouldnt worry about it, my friend failed our chemistry prelim last year, but went on to pass the final exam. And its even better if you resit the course, last year i was above average, this year im top of the class! Excellent.
> Chemistry Prelim - I got the hardest questions right and got 46%
>
> Meh
I really wouldnt worry about it, my friend failed our chemistry prelim last year, but went on to pass the final exam. And its even better if you resit the course, last year i was above average, this year im top of the class! Excellent.
SHEEPY wrote:
> Today I
> got up early, completed a massive maths sheet and revised for chemistry.
How are you getting on with chemistry SHEEPY?
Anyway, i think perhaps your judgements are based around a Utopia. Why on earth would you want a job which is not based on your intelligence, i know i wouldnt like some dumb-ass making more money than me if we were in the same job.
> Today I
> got up early, completed a massive maths sheet and revised for chemistry.
How are you getting on with chemistry SHEEPY?
Anyway, i think perhaps your judgements are based around a Utopia. Why on earth would you want a job which is not based on your intelligence, i know i wouldnt like some dumb-ass making more money than me if we were in the same job.
Grix Thraves wrote:
No no no... you're thinking like ME. I told you. :0)
Yeah we rule.
> I'm absolutely positive if I didn't think about all this, I would be
> getting A's across the board. But I just can't bring myself to work.
> My teachers frown upon me, and can't understand why "I'm not
> forfilling my potential..." and I do feel sorry for them, because
> they obviously enjoy teaching, and I feel as if I've failed them.
I would pass everything easily... but in a way I'm glad I'm not. In the first years of Secondary I was the 'smartest' male then my results went downhill. I think some teachers I just confuse. When I apply my mind to a question or essay I am actually amazing but all the small facts in Science and Maths I don't know because I don't memorise it...
Chemistry Prelim - I got the hardest questions right and got 46%
Meh
No no no... you're thinking like ME. I told you. :0)
Yeah we rule.
> I'm absolutely positive if I didn't think about all this, I would be
> getting A's across the board. But I just can't bring myself to work.
> My teachers frown upon me, and can't understand why "I'm not
> forfilling my potential..." and I do feel sorry for them, because
> they obviously enjoy teaching, and I feel as if I've failed them.
I would pass everything easily... but in a way I'm glad I'm not. In the first years of Secondary I was the 'smartest' male then my results went downhill. I think some teachers I just confuse. When I apply my mind to a question or essay I am actually amazing but all the small facts in Science and Maths I don't know because I don't memorise it...
Chemistry Prelim - I got the hardest questions right and got 46%
Meh
Really? Well you learn something new everyday...
That is why they invented ukchatforums.com!
SHEEPY wrote:
> " Then work came and made us free? " quoting from the
> Manics. I need to disagree with you on that, and when Winston
> Churchill was Defence Minister during the First World War he send
> thousands of men to their death when they attacked Turkey from the
> South...
Heh...thats a good point, but all I meant to say is that academic skill is not neceserily a sign of a good character.
> " Then work came and made us free? " quoting from the
> Manics. I need to disagree with you on that, and when Winston
> Churchill was Defence Minister during the First World War he send
> thousands of men to their death when they attacked Turkey from the
> South...
Heh...thats a good point, but all I meant to say is that academic skill is not neceserily a sign of a good character.
Thats what games are for, my friend, a means of escaping our boring, tedious and crap lives and jump into the life of some gun totting, alien killing, pyromaniac.
SHEEPY wrote:
> Stop thinking like me :)
No no no... you're thinking like ME. I told you. :0)
"I know I am more intelligent than people who get 40% more than me, because my interpretation of intelligence is not having a good memory it is something a lot more deep than that, and is something many of us are capable of but over the years we are becoming crippled and we will grow up with the prospect of finding love, seeing a corner of the world and then dying."
Yup, the sense of life in the title. If they're so intelligent, why do they accept the way things are?
I'm absolutely positive if I didn't think about all this, I would be getting A's across the board. But I just can't bring myself to work. My teachers frown upon me, and can't understand why "I'm not forfilling my potential..." and I do feel sorry for them, because they obviously enjoy teaching, and I feel as if I've failed them.
But it seems, I'm actually the perfect human, someone who the exam system would be perfect for... if, perhaps, we weren't forced through such obviously nonlogical work.
I know what I'm going to be. This is a rarity, and people my age cannot be expected to come to a decision like that. I just got lucky.
For all the rest, that don't, they face a life of hell. Once you go down the road of accountancy, working in a job only for money, you're stuck there. That's it.
And that's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid, that one day, I'll just give up, and I'll accept that all I'm ever going to do is sit at a desk, do someone elses taxes.
But we mustn't. We can't, and we won't. Hopefully. :0(
> Stop thinking like me :)
No no no... you're thinking like ME. I told you. :0)
"I know I am more intelligent than people who get 40% more than me, because my interpretation of intelligence is not having a good memory it is something a lot more deep than that, and is something many of us are capable of but over the years we are becoming crippled and we will grow up with the prospect of finding love, seeing a corner of the world and then dying."
Yup, the sense of life in the title. If they're so intelligent, why do they accept the way things are?
I'm absolutely positive if I didn't think about all this, I would be getting A's across the board. But I just can't bring myself to work. My teachers frown upon me, and can't understand why "I'm not forfilling my potential..." and I do feel sorry for them, because they obviously enjoy teaching, and I feel as if I've failed them.
But it seems, I'm actually the perfect human, someone who the exam system would be perfect for... if, perhaps, we weren't forced through such obviously nonlogical work.
I know what I'm going to be. This is a rarity, and people my age cannot be expected to come to a decision like that. I just got lucky.
For all the rest, that don't, they face a life of hell. Once you go down the road of accountancy, working in a job only for money, you're stuck there. That's it.
And that's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid, that one day, I'll just give up, and I'll accept that all I'm ever going to do is sit at a desk, do someone elses taxes.
But we mustn't. We can't, and we won't. Hopefully. :0(
Protoss wrote:
We have exams to put us in a social s**tructure, it sucks to be quite
hones**t because exams don't really prove sh*t. Wins**ton Churchill was
not academic at all, his father even called him a failure in a letter
at the age of ten yet he went on to lead Britain through its darkes**t
hours. If we didn't have exams it would be like before and education
sys**tem - we would all be working in factory mills or on the land.
---
" Then work came and made us free? " quoting from the Manics. I need to disagree with you on that, and when Wins**ton Churchill was Defence Minis**ter during the Firs**t World War he send thousands of men to their death when they attacked Turkey from the South...
We have exams to put us in a social s**tructure, it sucks to be quite
hones**t because exams don't really prove sh*t. Wins**ton Churchill was
not academic at all, his father even called him a failure in a letter
at the age of ten yet he went on to lead Britain through its darkes**t
hours. If we didn't have exams it would be like before and education
sys**tem - we would all be working in factory mills or on the land.
---
" Then work came and made us free? " quoting from the Manics. I need to disagree with you on that, and when Wins**ton Churchill was Defence Minis**ter during the Firs**t World War he send thousands of men to their death when they attacked Turkey from the South...
We have exams to put us in a social s**tructure, it sucks to be quite hones**t because exams don't really prove sh*t. Wins**ton Churchill was not academic at all, his father even called him a failure in a letter at the age of ten yet he went on to lead Britain through its darkes**t hours. If we didn't have exams it would be like before and education sys**tem - we would all be working in factory mills or on the land.
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