Saturday, October 30, 2004

bloody education

Exams are the plague-ridden pillar on which our society is built. Now I know most people who criticize formal education are the ones who aren't very good at it, but that doesn't make the message any less potent. Education sucks! I don't want to freaking rote learn a bunch of formulae just to forget them five minutes after an exam. I don't want to be force-fed concepts at Olympic speed just because the teacher wants to leave for their damn vacations early. Also, I don't want teachers who became teachers not because of their aptitude for teaching and getting along with children, but because they're desperate for a job or a bored postgraduate student looking for some extra cash. Most of all, I don't want to wake up early for a class. What's the point, I'm half asleep anyway, and the time not spent yawning is spend clock-gazing. When will the antiquated ritual of early morning classes be cast aside already? Wouldn't people be more receptive to learning something if they could have a decent night's sleep? I personally need about 9 hours of sleep at least to be a fully-functioning human the next morning. Realistically speaking, I'd have to be asleep by 9 pm to get the requisite number of hours of sleep and who the heck goes to sleep at nine anyway? It also proved my point: formal education does not make a person smart. If it did, all those Ph. Ds sitting in university boards would decide to have all classes begin at 11 am instead of 8 am.

Misha at Saturday, October 30, 2004

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