Often times when I am at school, I expect to be learning
something new and expanding my brain capacity, I hope to be flourishing in this
environment created for this, instead my brain is scrambled between the letters
scribbled up on the board and the thoughts racing in my own mind,-school, work,
family, friends,- I am indifferent to the topic being presented, useless, just
useless it seems,- I question whether I will ever need to know a unit circle
when cooking my future kids dinner, or if I will absolutely need to know the
square root of six when applying for jobs, or when I’m doing my taxes,- I doubt
this, and soon I find myself in a flurry of anger rather than craving
knowledge, we do not need what we are being taught,- we need to know how to
cook, clean, and do our taxes not how to evaluate an expression or express chemical
formulas,- yes school is important, but the real knowledge lies in experience
and life, not conforming to the teachers idea of a model student that can just
pass a test, memorization is now valued over wisdom and experience, and that
scrambles my brain.
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