4 Ways Your Education Was A Conspiracy To Make You Bored

[Miller0700]

Quote:In high school, if you wanted me to get an A in chemistry, you would show me a list of steps an experiment required and I'd follow them to the letter and proceed to not give a shit, because I wasn't trying to see what happened when I mixed magnesium with frog butts. The only formula I was learning was "A on test = teacher gets off my back." If you wanted me to understand the message in Crime and Punishment, I'd sit in your class and wait patiently until you told me what the thesis was and then I'd write an essay that regurgitated your points, but the real thesis of most of those essays was "Here are five paragraphs that will shut you up for a second." If you wanted me to memorize a date, I'd store it in my head until I wrote it down on the test, after which I'd forget it forever, regardless of what handy mnemonic or catchy rhyme you tried to get me to use.

Read more, it's good: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-your-...z2inx3ayy8

[craxyguy562]

I agree.

[James Comey]

This may be the greatest Cracked article ever written.

[brainiac3397]

I liked it.

[magikarp]

I am utterly convinced that the most major problem facing education is a lack of anecdotes about famous men who were also sleazeballs.

[Meow I'm a Cat]

Why is it is the sex category?