"School exists so you can experience new things."

[Miller0700]

Says my El-Func teacher........again.

So we brought up the "why do we need to learn this?" argument back up and he pretty much said this:

> You're going need this in college. Professors won't be as easy as I was when it comes to note-taking and work.

> It's a fact that people's interests change, so it's okay to tech you guys this because you might eventually like it.

> Overall it's for the experience. To experience new things; to "break out of your shell".

[The]

Typical

[bulgarianlion]

To experience anger
To experience loneliness
To experience sadness
To experience hatred
To experience humiliation
To experience fear
To experience awkwardness

[The]

Holy shit, I agree with bulgvar. I'm going into my bunker now

[UnschoolShqiponjë]

The world exists to experience new things and break out of your shell.

My family will travel the world once the kids are old enough... instead of forcing them to sit in school.

[Dirtbikemike]

My fucking counselor said inb4 "for the experience of it", but I don't get what he's smoking if an "experience of it" is apparently 12 years of progressively harder shit. People get degrees in WHOLE FUCKING FIELDS in 4-6 years... 10 if your parents want you to be a doctor to leech off your money when they're retired.

[Campion]

How is four years of being trapped in a building with miserable people doing useless bullshit an avenue for "new experiences" ? What "things" ? Drugs? Abuse? Sitting in a chair for hours straight and reading about irrelevant facts?

How about actually going out and spending that time to get and operate in a fucking job, so you can have the rest of that time to do shit you're actually interested in? How does that sound for a "new experience" ?

The truth is, you don't need to learn it. I graduated a year ago, and I don't remember JACK SHIT zero anything they "taught" me from high school. It doesn't prevent me from working effectively for whatever workplace I'm assigned with. It just sounds like your teacher is trying to make sense out of his career, no offense.

[Stadium]

(03-16-2012 09:01 AM)The Wrote:  Holy shit, I agree with bulgvar. I'm going into my bunker now

I think hating school is the one thing everyone on this forum can agree on.

[.Manicrose.]

(03-17-2012 01:17 AM)Campion Wrote:  How is four years of being trapped in a building with miserable people doing useless bullshit an avenue for "new experiences" ? What "things" ? Drugs? Abuse? Sitting in a chair for hours straight and reading about irrelevant facts?

How about actually going out and spending that time to get and operate in a fucking job, so you can have the rest of that time to do shit you're actually interested in? How does that sound for a "new experience" ?

The truth is, you don't need to learn it. I graduated a year ago, and I don't remember JACK SHIT zero anything they "taught" me from high school. It doesn't prevent me from working effectively for whatever workplace I'm assigned with. It just sounds like your teacher is trying to make sense out of his career, no offense.

I asked my parents why we learn useless things in school (calculus) and never anything useful (managing a paycheck, doing taxes, cooking, driving, etc) and my parents said that the "useless things" as I termed them, would come in handy in a lot of careers (but not ALL, as opposed to the useful things) and then they hemmed and hawed and eventually said that the "useful" things we would have to learn on our own.

Really? It's completely backwards! You're forced to learn stuff that won't be handy unless you're an engineer or something (and then you'll have to relearn it all again in college or grad school anyway) but as for the useful stuff, which EVERYONE will need to know, we're supposed to learn in our free time.

Into the SS bunker everyone

[Campion]

Doesn't really sound getting prepared for the future if they won't even teach you what's necessary for it then, huh?

[gore goroth]

There are only so many new things you can experience from sitting in a classroom all day.

[aCol]

Things I've learned through school (not in school, is to say):
- Drinking can help you forget your questions, therefor you won't have to find a answer
- Standard school test will induce depression once the grades a bad and you're to inexperienced to notice you don't give a shit
- I've met the person who gets me my synthetics once a month in school
- I've met a girl that has broken my heart and threw me into depression at school
- I've learned to suffer from school
- Ultimately, I've learned you have to cheat in school by one way or the other
- I've learned the honest person is always punished in school
inb4, school made me a selfish, sarcastic faggot who only cares about a few people and would like to see the world burn. Mission fucking accomplished.
I don't know what their goal is, but this does not seem right.

[Dirtbikemike]

(03-17-2012 01:17 AM)Campion Wrote:  How is four years of being trapped in a building with miserable people doing useless bullshit an avenue for "new experiences" ? What "things" ?

I was talking about College.

[Campion]

I was replying to OP and his teacher

[Dirtbikemike]

Then why'd you say 4 years.

[Miller0700]

Four years of H.S

[Campion]

"You're going need this in college" sounds like something a high school teacher would say. You reply fast

[Dirtbikemike]

Ohhhhh 4 years of HS... Got it.

Yeah I know I'm at home browsing the WWW

[Aya]

(03-16-2012 08:25 AM)Derchin Wrote:  You're going need this in college. Professors won't be as easy as I was when it comes to note-taking and work.

Lol, I should scan a copy of my Comptia notes and post it on the site. If you follow a certain rubric for taking and organizing notes you can learn most of what you need for a certain class out of the text book, then write in class notes from the teacher in the margins.

[Levio_Sah]

(03-16-2012 09:00 AM)bulgvar666 Wrote:  To experience anger
To experience loneliness
To experience sadness
To experience hatred
To experience humiliation
To experience fear
To experience awkwardness

[SoulRiser]

"School exists so you can experience learn to hate new things."

Fixed.

[Reptorian]

All school brings me psychological issues that grows over time and it's bad now.

[The]

Fucking normalfags never fail to piss me off

[Dirtbikemike]

Another quote I heard: "You should be more positive Michael! Don't think of all the negatives!"

What? And be ignorant and naive about the whole truth behind school? Yeah, right!

[Sapphire Flames]

Yeah I got chewed out yesterday because I made an F in a class for success strategies.

My dad actually think this class matters, let's get a run down of the last 3 grades.

- An oral report about careers
- Checking Agendas to make sure you have everything written down

That's it. Those are the grades for the entire grading period.

P.S. I've only heard people with no brownie points give the report, the group of girls who have massive brownie points don't have to do it and pretty much get a free A.

It's a joke because there wasn't even a 'sign and return' or 'show to parents' stamp, the whole class is for people who don't do band or orchestra.

[Lung_Drac]

We'd be better off in the workforce on our own, researching things in our spare time rather than have to go to High School.

[Lung_Drac]

(03-18-2012 07:57 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  "School exists so you can experience learn to hate new things."

Fixed.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[Wingless]

I had better experiences taking outside classes and outside ROP classes than any class officially provided by my high school.

Quote: You're going need this in college. Professors won't be as easy as I was when it comes to note-taking and work.

That's what just about every stuck-up teacher said about high school in middle school to me. Granted I can't speak for a 'real' 4-year college, but my community college classes instructors have been pretty laid back, and I'm not taking the absolutely easiest classes.

Quote:It's a fact that people's interests change, so it's okay to tech you guys this because you might eventually like it.

This is true in a way, but still, you should be able to choose what you want to learn or think you might want to try, not what the school wants you to try.

Quote:Overall it's for the experience. To experience new things; to "break out of your shell".

Implying you actually experience 'new things' other than just doing slightly altered routine work each year through high school.

[flann]

They try to say, 'You are free, and then give you school. They say that it is the essence of freedom. In reality, it's not. Of course, brainwash little kids and now you got generations believing it.

[UnschoolShqiponjë]

Quote:That's what just about every stuck-up teacher said about high school in middle school to me. Granted I can't speak for a 'real' 4-year college, but my community college classes instructors have been pretty laid back, and I'm not taking the absolutely easiest classes.

I can attest to this. My college professors are more often than not a lot more laid back. However, I have heard it gets really difficult in grad school. Thing is by then you will be focusing on what you like so the classes aren't nearly as bad.