Your creativity and skills are being murderd
November 8, 2012 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2012 at 8:11 pm by Fryslân.)
Not sure if I should of posted this here, because it's one of my many, many brainfarts I would like to share. Did I mention many yet?
I was looking at one of my old report cards from my high school the other day and realized something verry wrong.
I think the school systems as we know it in the western worlds, have destroyed individuality and still are destroying it, or rather ruining it.
Here is how. When I went to school, I had to focus on crap I was shit at. My report card said:
Biology - 8.4
Maths - 5.5
Crafts - 9
Economics - 5.5
Physiscs - 6.5
Sociology - 8.9
German - 6.7
English - 7.7
Dutch - 6.8
Sports - 6
Now this is a very avarage report card. It is actualy the real one. But you can clearly see what I was best at. But school put me in extra lessons for maths and economics. What the fuck, WHY?! I though to myself. Why did they force me to focus on the things I hated most. I was shit at it, I didn't want to these subjects either.
They still do this today. Here anyway. It starts with elementry schools. That's when you shouldn't be doing things you don't like and crap your terrible at. I'm not talking about the first 2 years of elemtry school by the way.
I know why they do this now. Over here, schools get money for when people pass their exams. You need to pass all the subjects, otherwise you'll fail the exam and the school won't get any money.
I feel cheated by this. I wish they would of put me in extra clases for biology and crafts. Because then I probably wouldn't of been wasting time on typing all of this and be doing something i'm good at.
I believe everyone can be a specialist in some way or another. I actually learnt more about the things I don't like and the things i'm shit at, by doing the things I like and that i'm better at. Because i'm still not really good or a "specialist" if you will, with anything... yet.
I'm just wondering how many people there are doing things they don't like. How many people have been cheated into doing things they aren't good at. The focus is always on what you're shit at. It's no wonder people have performance anxiety.
I was looking at one of my old report cards from my high school the other day and realized something verry wrong.
I think the school systems as we know it in the western worlds, have destroyed individuality and still are destroying it, or rather ruining it.
Here is how. When I went to school, I had to focus on crap I was shit at. My report card said:
Biology - 8.4
Maths - 5.5
Crafts - 9
Economics - 5.5
Physiscs - 6.5
Sociology - 8.9
German - 6.7
English - 7.7
Dutch - 6.8
Sports - 6
Now this is a very avarage report card. It is actualy the real one. But you can clearly see what I was best at. But school put me in extra lessons for maths and economics. What the fuck, WHY?! I though to myself. Why did they force me to focus on the things I hated most. I was shit at it, I didn't want to these subjects either.
They still do this today. Here anyway. It starts with elementry schools. That's when you shouldn't be doing things you don't like and crap your terrible at. I'm not talking about the first 2 years of elemtry school by the way.
I know why they do this now. Over here, schools get money for when people pass their exams. You need to pass all the subjects, otherwise you'll fail the exam and the school won't get any money.
I feel cheated by this. I wish they would of put me in extra clases for biology and crafts. Because then I probably wouldn't of been wasting time on typing all of this and be doing something i'm good at.
I believe everyone can be a specialist in some way or another. I actually learnt more about the things I don't like and the things i'm shit at, by doing the things I like and that i'm better at. Because i'm still not really good or a "specialist" if you will, with anything... yet.
I'm just wondering how many people there are doing things they don't like. How many people have been cheated into doing things they aren't good at. The focus is always on what you're shit at. It's no wonder people have performance anxiety.
