Nothing I can think up sounds anything but cliched. It's all been said a million times, it's all been done a million times, where do any of us fit in? Unfortunately, my brain has gone on shutdown as of late, thanks to the endless monotony of memorizing things. I fail to see the point of rote learning fomulae and procedures and code syntaxes. Why is it education teaches us what to think instead of just to think, period? I have often told friends off stories of "duh moments" in various classes where a basic lack of the ability to use common sense or any sort of analytical skills of ones own are on display, despite the fact the central characters in the stories are amongst the top GPA holders of our class. What does that say about education systems in general? The last time I was asked to actually use my own brain to formulate individual theories based on evidence from a given text and defend them in an exam and in front of classmates was in A level Literature. Since then, it's been memorizing various things without really understanding them and this is the sad bit. Thoughts?