Master Jake wrote:I don't like the idea of public school, just the idea of learning.
For one, independent learning is always superior to being spoon-fed bullshit.
Second, most teachers suck at teaching and need to go back to school themselves.
Third, many of the people in a public school don't actually want to learn anyway. They are just "stuck up" teenagers who just want to party, get high, and do nothing to improve their lives or the world. This being said, they pose negativity on the public schooling environment which hurts those who actually DO want to learn.
Fourth, public schooling (for the reasons above, and several others) have given the word "Education" a bad name. Very few are interested in something when it is deemed "Educational" because they think back to their life in school and how that was deemed "Educational." Of course, they likely hated school; and, sub-consciously associating it with the word "Education" causes them to hate whatever was deemed "Educational."
Fifth, learning should be a choice, not a requirement. If you want to be a dumbass and fail at life, you should have the choice. The government forces people to go to school, wasting time and money on many people who aren't going anywhere in life because of their poor decisions and ethics. This reflects back onto point 3 about "these type of people" posing a negative environment onto others. This time and money could be better spent on educating people who actually want to be educated.
Sixth, public schools--like the government--are ran by corrupt people with corrupt politics. You can actually have negative points applied to your school record (you know, the record that your colleges look at) by a corrupt asshole "figure of authority" in a public school for no reason whatsoever. You can be framed into a crime by someone hiding drugs in your locker in a moment of distress, or just to get rid of you. So many things can go wrong, and once you've pissed off someone with high importance to authorital figures (such as a class pet)--say goodbye to happiness.
This is why self-taught programmers will always reign. They travel onto the magical internet looking for tutorials (a clever word for a free class that you teach yourself) because they WANT to learn it, not because they have to. Self-motivation combined with independent learning deems success.
Ramen to that brother... I don't really care about how my school is run, its all wrong, nothing I can do... but I don't like the fact that, back in my earlier years, I was a great student and I went out for sports and all that, but you know I wasn't particularly great (I wasn't horrible ok I was) but I never got the recognition the kids in sports did, as time went on I quit carrying, fell into bad habits and now I don't put a lot of effort into school (I do what I need to pass and keep my parents happy, but no more, I can't even figure out how to get my grades out of this rut because I've gone so long not trying... It really sucks and I still don't get credit where credit is due, I've been excelling in Reading and English for my whole freaking life, but have I ever, once been able to take an honors english class? nope and i don't know why, its not like my other grades are bad, you know all b's and the occasional C in something like spanish... but nope, I'm an outcast, I can't be put into anything that would make me look better I DON'T DO DRUGS!
/rant yeah that last part was random
