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whistlingwings · 07-10-2009 08:26 AM

Does anyone go to school (students and teachers alike) because they're truly interested in it and feel there's worth something? I doubt it. I think they just go due to rote and get it over with. Just an observation.

Jackass McAwesome · 07-10-2009 09:25 AM

^

You don't. Your personality does.

aerftghyjk · 07-11-2009 12:04 AM

I think that is true. My Mom says I have to go to school... because I have to. She rarely gives any other reason. None

Thought Criminal · 07-11-2009 12:30 AM

I run into the occasional person but other than that no. everyone else hates it, and rightfully so.

Amortisatie · 07-11-2009 12:46 AM

thought criminal Wrote:I run into the occasional person but other than that no. everyone else hates it, and rightfully so.

But they are too afraid to state why they truly hate it, so they just say it's because of homework Rolleyes

I'm pretty sure most people know the government just wants them to be mindless slaves

mudkip liek · 07-11-2009 04:50 AM

Actually, I've never met anyone who has expressed that they truly like school. Ever.

Everyone just complains about how stupid it is. And homework isn't their only reason.

Amortisatie · 07-11-2009 08:34 AM

Well, for me it is.

All my friends and people at my school complain about homework then they laugh it off

whistlingwings · 07-11-2009 09:03 AM

I was also talking about teachers.

Thought Criminal · 07-11-2009 11:53 AM

most teachers I know take it seriously but that could just be the business side of them. all the teachers that I have become friends with seem to despise it.

mudkip liek · 07-11-2009 01:06 PM

I only know of one teacher that doesn't give a care about school.

But I also know one who took an extra class to teach even after they told her she won't get paid for it. She told us it's because she enjoys teaching so much and "loves kids". Rolleyes

teenagewasteland · 07-12-2009 06:17 AM

Most teachers in my school thought they were "enriching young minds". At least that's how they appeared to me.
I think most kids just felt as they had to get it done with, even though they knew it wasn't worth anything knowledge wise. It's all to get a damn diploma.

monkey · 07-13-2009 03:10 PM

whistlingwings Wrote:Does anyone go to school (students and teachers alike) because they're truly interested in it and feel there's worth something? I doubt it. I think they just go due to rote and get it over with. Just an observation.

True but alot of people when asked if they want to go to school would go "LOLLLL NO SCHOOLS LETS GO GET BEERS LOLLL" I mean there is a difference between people that don't give a fuck and people who care about there education. But parents just think everyone fits into the first group.

classclown · 07-14-2009 02:48 PM

i have a few teachers that does. last yr me n this teacher actually became friends n i know he doesnt. and some kids do n i usually kick them in the face.

Dark Soul X · 07-15-2009 04:04 AM

whistlingwings Wrote:Does anyone go to school (students and teachers alike) because they're truly interested in it and feel there's worth something? I doubt it. I think they just go due to rote and get it over with. Just an observation.

As of right now, I'm only going to school to be with friends and to potentially get a gf. Those are the only two things that interest me about school.

This year I barely gave any effort, still passed. The remaining two years should be easy.

I have no value about the "educational" part of school. The system's pretty ineffective.

In computer class, I actually knew more than my teacher in that subject.

In math I gave no effort because the teacher only gave us a few minutes of teaching and expected us to do about three assignments off of that little piece of info he gave us (he actually expected us to have learned it in fucking elementary, and it's fucking trigonometry).

In gym I did alright. Got a pity A due to my past heart issues (like 2004 past, and that all went away with one surgery). It's a cheap way to get a good grade, but I don't care.

In geometry, I was just plain annoyed and that got me off focus. Still passed that class with flying colors.

I learn more outside of school than I do in it. To rely on school for my "education" would turn me into a retard. End of rant.

annie · 07-29-2009 12:24 PM

I'm actually pro-school and fit your description. Wasntme

Which I know means I shouldn't be here, but hey, it seems an interesting place & I have friends here. C'est la vie.

I can understand the anti-school side of it though.

mrwednesday · 07-29-2009 01:38 PM

annie Wrote:I'm actually pro-school and fit your description. Which I know means I shouldn't be here

Welcome to the club.

IllusoryDeath · 07-29-2009 02:47 PM

Absolutely nobody that I know goes to school thinking that they are actually going to learn something....at least, they don't let on that they do. It is such a rarity to come across something new or even just useful in such a place....*sigh* Anyway. I find that either there are those who do not do the work - the majority, and usually due to laziness rather than rebelling - or those who do the work merely to please their teachers/parents or try to show that they are smarter than others or because they've been "taught" that that's what you are supposed to do. (School making its students docile little cubicle-workers? Nooooooooooooooooo....) -.- Either way, nobody is leaning a damn thing. *Note: memorization ≠ learning

Personally, I was one of those kids caught up in the "that's how it's done so do it" faze for the majority of my grade-to-middle school career. I never really thought that what I was "learning" in later years (as in after the whole reading & writing & basic science-y/mathematical deducting bit) had much to do with anything pertaining to how I wanted to live my life, but only until recently have I realized what they are really trying to do to us in those government buildings. Firstly, we were to young to guess at or even notice, and secondly, when we finally get to that comprehending age where we might give a care, we don't even see it for what it all is since we've been in the system for so long....overall it's very unfair.
But I've digressed.

In grade six of middle school up until about the second semester of my sophomore year of high school, I was seeing school without all the haziness & distractions of a young child's mind. Near the end there I came across S-S, which opened my eyes even further and I pretty much stopped my brain from going along its easy & habitual route of caring so much about homework and GPAs and all of that other useless nonsense. For years already I had given up the hope of learning anything useful in school and forsaken myself to memorization, but the second semester of last year I saw that maybe things could change, if only a little. That's what the people on sites like S-S are doing - have been doing - and I finally came to the conclusion of "Fuck school. They do not adhere to my learning, so why should I give a them another mind to conform?"

And that was the slightly long-ish tale of how I stopped caring. ;D

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