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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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Stop thinking like me :)
The other day I mentioned something like this...
The whole education is awful... I'm not moaning about going to school like most braindead people. I want to go to school and learn what I want to learn, educating yourself is a gift we must take. However, when you go to school day in and day out and get told you must learn this and that... I ask myself why? So I can get a good pass but all the time this year and in exam nothing has actually been explained...
I've noticed my attitude change recently with the pressure I'm under... I failed most of prelims and I keep thinking (because I have been told so much) that my life has stopped and any good chance of a life has been crushed bcause my English was judged on me memorising an essay and writing it in 45 mins, as an example. I feel like I've become Winston Smith at the end of 1984, they bloody got me. Today I got up early, completed a massive maths sheet and revised for Chemistry. I really wanted to get up, rest, read a book and play my guitar, but no I need to do this work. I feel is if I'm working for a future that i don't want and I'm doing nothing with present.
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.
The other day I mentioned something like this...
The whole education is awful... I'm not moaning about going to school like most braindead people. I want to go to school and learn what I want to learn, educating yourself is a gift we must take. However, when you go to school day in and day out and get told you must learn this and that... I ask myself why? So I can get a good pass but all the time this year and in exam nothing has actually been explained...
I've noticed my attitude change recently with the pressure I'm under... I failed most of prelims and I keep thinking (because I have been told so much) that my life has stopped and any good chance of a life has been crushed bcause my English was judged on me memorising an essay and writing it in 45 mins, as an example. I feel like I've become Winston Smith at the end of 1984, they bloody got me. Today I got up early, completed a massive maths sheet and revised for Chemistry. I really wanted to get up, rest, read a book and play my guitar, but no I need to do this work. I feel is if I'm working for a future that i don't want and I'm doing nothing with present.
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.
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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