Thursday, October 16, 2008
School.
okay, so school is starting on monday. after such a long holiday of almost 2 months, i'm really used to having just a laid back lifestyle and doing whatever, whenever. now that school's starting, i have to model my life around a fixed schedule, and that in itself sucks.
of course not to mention the depletion of my already pathetic social life, and of course the piling up of assignments and projects. yeah, i do wanna know more things and stuff but is school really necessary? i'm pretty sure that if you give me just a book, and ask me to teach myself, i would have no problems whatsoever. and if i did, there's the wonderful internet that gives you access to practically everything.
so why school? so teachers have jobs? so kids have to be subjected to a horrible table and chair and pay money to learn things they could have just read from a book? isn't school in that sense promoting laziness? the laziness to take the initiative to open up a book when you wanna know something new. the laziness to search the encyclopedia for answers. now, everyone just goes by saying, oh if i dunno, i'll just ask my teacher. hmmm...... that seems to be wrong right? instead of active learning, society has now sinked into passive learning. where everything you know is being told to you. it's not something you learn on your own accord.
the question is, is this good?
well, the system seems to think so. and so we all have to conform. just like robots walking down a lane, students walk down classroom aisles.
goodbye.
10:30 PM;
christine was here