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Ranting and Raving.
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Eidolon Away
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What really bothers me is that it all ends up to be a piece of paper saying I'm "smart."

It's intended to prepare us for the real world, but there's no reason it has to take 12 years.

I think the best way to learn is by doing it, not by being told. The whole thing is just moronic. If they really want us to learn, they should have us do something instead of sitting in a room hoping to get something useful out of it. Probably the only classes I have genuinely learned anything in were the practical ones, like carpentry or programming.

In trying to get us to learn, they make us not want to. If we had a choice of what to learn, and how to learn it, we would be so much more willing.

I hate how we are made to think that passing high school is the only way to get a job. Eat or die.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Schools seem to have forgotten this. We may be forced to be in school, but we don't have to listen to them.

We could flee, but what would it achieve? Soon we've got the pigs all over us. We can run, but we can't hide. Eventually we would be caught. There's no escaping it. The long arm of the law has a tight grip. Multiple times I thought about running away and living in the woods somewhere, but I realized I would be caught and sent to some institution. Which reminds me:

School is a correctional facility. All of our creativity, all of our individuality, our differences: all snuffed out. We become one body. One menace that must be suppressed. A menace we call teenagers. These are supposed to be the best years of our life, yet as soon as school kicks in, they seem to be by far the worst. The similarities between a school and a prison are astounding. Eat when you're told, then go back to your cell. We can't leave, or the sentence worsens. Step out of line for even a moment, and the consequences come down on you like a sledgehammer to an empty soda can. We are doomed. The school board decides your fate. But the truth is none of it will matter when none of us are matter. So, huck it. I refuse to let somebody that society has decided is certified live my life for me.
04-23-2007 01:21 PM
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Ranting and Raving. - Cosbydaf - 04-23-2007, 11:40 AM
[] - Eidolon - 04-23-2007, 12:32 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-23-2007, 12:42 PM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 04-23-2007, 12:45 PM
[] - Eidolon - 04-23-2007 01:21 PM
[] - Guest - 04-23-2007, 02:07 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-23-2007, 02:13 PM
Re: Ranting and Raving. - SoulRiser - 04-24-2007, 01:29 AM
[] - Eidolon - 04-24-2007, 09:04 AM
[] - Guest - 04-24-2007, 10:18 AM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 04-24-2007, 10:19 AM
[] - Guest - 04-24-2007, 10:23 AM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 04-24-2007, 10:24 AM
[] - Guest - 04-24-2007, 10:27 AM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 04-24-2007, 10:28 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-24-2007, 12:46 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-24-2007, 01:01 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-24-2007, 01:02 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-24-2007, 01:08 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-24-2007, 01:09 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-24-2007, 01:13 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-24-2007, 01:19 PM
[] - SoulRiser - 04-25-2007, 12:49 AM
[] - Eidolon - 04-25-2007, 06:17 AM
[] - SoulRiser - 04-25-2007, 08:47 AM
[] - Eidolon - 04-25-2007, 08:51 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-26-2007, 11:17 AM
[] - Guest - 04-26-2007, 01:21 PM
[] - Psionicsavior - 04-28-2007, 10:39 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-28-2007, 12:49 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-28-2007, 02:23 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-30-2007, 12:12 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 04-30-2007, 12:18 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 04-30-2007, 12:20 PM
[] - SoulRiser - 05-01-2007, 01:15 AM
[] - Cilaos - 05-01-2007, 02:05 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-01-2007, 11:10 AM
[] - Cosbydaf - 05-01-2007, 11:36 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-02-2007, 11:43 AM
[] - Cosbydaf - 05-02-2007, 12:20 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-02-2007, 12:25 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 05-02-2007, 12:34 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-02-2007, 12:36 PM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 05-02-2007, 12:39 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-02-2007, 12:50 PM
[] - Abandoning Ship - 05-02-2007, 12:55 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-02-2007, 01:01 PM
[] - Cosbydaf - 05-02-2007, 01:09 PM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-03-2007, 12:09 PM
[] - SoulRiser - 05-04-2007, 01:38 AM
[] - Dark Soul X - 05-04-2007, 11:05 AM

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