Learning without pressure of grades.

[Jackie]

Yeah, to be honest in school so many things were taught in such a boring way. History especially, but now that I've left I have the urge to research and learn about these things in my own time. Maybe going off on a bit of a tangent, but I find that schools nowadays just push people into what they appear to be good at, or force kids into thinking about what they should be doing for the rest of their life when in reality they aren't prepared to make those decisions. There's too much pressure on kids to 'do well' rather than 'to learn'. I'm doing a degree in IT now but to be honest, it's just made me realise I don't want to do IT for the rest of my life. I'm only doing this because I seemed to fall into it at school, because nothing else was really interesting at the time. I find history and science far more interesting now, but in school they were taught in such a drab, soulless way. I think for the most part a lot of science that was taught in my school was pretty fucking pointless. Most of the time we just spent burning things with a bunsen burner whilst supposedly doing some pointless chemistry experiment nobody understood the need for. I mean, they never taught us hardly anything to do with physics, and pretty much everything else was taught in such a way that you couldn't really grasp why it was important in the real world. In the end, I fell into the subject that seemed to have the most relevancy, but not necessarily the one that is the most interesting. I feel like my school and the general education system has let me down in a way because there isn't enough emphasis on getting you to enjoy what you're learning. If they did that I think more people would be in careers that actually excite and motivate them. Right now I'm absolutely not...

/tangent

It wasn't for me about "boring" . It was more about having the entire sink thrown at you at once image wise. I do not do well in situations where I am thrown in the deep end all at once. I do better with baby steps taking one part at a time.