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At What Age Did You Start To Think School Was Wrong ?
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RE: At What Age Did You Start To Think School Was Wrong ?

I started to have difficulties in school when I was 9, I started hating History with 12, because it was damn difficult and frustrating, I realized school was wrong with 13 and now I like History again, even being damn difficult, but I hate Math, Chimestry, Fisics, Biology and so on.

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RE: At What Age Did You Start To Think School Was Wrong ?

I think I was 14-15 years old, in 9th grade. I think I was a bit brainwashed going trhough middle school believing that school was good for you and that its is normal if you show a bit of dislike for school but overall it should be good but then I remember watching Ken Robinson's ted talk Do Schools Kill Creativity and got inspired by him a lot and realized that schools do kill creativity and conversations is saddly neglected in schools and that the arts are on a lesser rand(sadly) below the core subjects. My hatered for school grew as well for my interest for learning why school is wrong from people like Ken Robinson. I got one of the books written by him, Creative Schools and its my favorite non fiction book I have read. But it was around some time in 9th grade where I thought school sucked
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