Does anyone besides me hate Ferris Bueller?

[Rev. Rye]

For me, Ferris Bueller is like ET:  Yet another movie I won't ever be seeing.

lol, yeah by the time I saw ET I already saw every copycat of that movie that ET seemed lame.

When it comes to Ferris I did find the movie fun and when it comes to it's stance on education from what I remember Ferris was really good student who just wanted to take one day break from school and I guess it is about a point in High School when you start feeling adultish and people around you treat you as a kid. And also when it comes to education you can't say there aren't problems. In FB you see Ben Stein holding a very boring class and I guess almost everybody encountered classes and teachers that bore them and it is I guess a fact that schools and teachers are underplayed and it you get a feeling that real education gets shunned and is dysfunctional as it is.

For instance Noam Chomsky talks about this in documentary "Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?"

There is also interesting bit on education by Michio Kaku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtuQBSUcZI

That said, apparently, in the film, we saw his NINTH "sick day" of the school year, so it's not like this was supposed to be a one time thing. It seems like he could very well be an A-student if all the work he put into his playing hooky into his schoolwork. That said, when I was a kid, I had a very adversarial relationship with my school. In addition to the bullying that was more or less school-sanctioned, I didn't actually learn much there. I wound up learning a hell of a lot more by teaching myself at the local library (and the Internet when we got that). As Will Hunting said, “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” When you go into life like that, it's really not hard to see why someone intelligent would prefer to good off than spend a day at that place of hostility. Then again, since Ferris is friends with everyone, that might not hold as much water, but it's still understandable.