schooliosis

sweet like honey to my soul


I love learning. I love learning but not for a grade. One thing I really wish that this society would let of is defining a person through a letter in the alphabet or this thing they call g.p.a. Those things seriously make me feel stupid. Whenever I face school and their grading system I feel so at a disadvantage, like they want to give me a bad grade and I have to fight it by memorizing things I don't fully understand because we're in a time crisis and there's no time for me to stop and breathe and contemplate on what it means to me and how I can question it. A part of me just wants to quit school and learn on my own; that would be the brave and adventurous thing to do. The part that wants to stay is the little girl in me that is afraid of how the world will treat me because I do not have a title next to my name. Somewhere along the lines of our culture, our education system lost it's purpose. Who ever started school must have started it to educate the people around, so that they can better themselves. What's the difference now? Schools just want "better" students to better THEIR schools name. Everything in the end becomes a business. It's all about how much better can I be than you. How far can you push me before you stop. Nobody really lives life anymore, we just try to fill the status quo of this culture. It makes me truly sad to see how young generation grow without creativity nor experience because they spend their time away 'studying', as if studying is limited to indoor, paperbacks, desks and teachers. I won't claim to be the smartest but I learned common sense outside of books, I learned how to walk the mountain not through a teacher and I learned how to get up from a fall away from a desk. School. Where and what truly is school? Will we always be constrained by 4 walls, 34 to 36 chairs and a white board? Will research papers get me experience because I studied it? I hope not. i hope that one day, parents will be brave enough to let their kids live outside of this box, to not hold them so tightly that they can't spread their wings and discover new heights. I hope that school will not be competing for title but competing for the students hearts desires to experience this journey we call life. Teachers will not be teaching for the respect and honor of being teacher but because they want to share what living is for them and how they did it and as the students job to be inspired to live out their lives to write their own stories and be their own teacher to one day give off experience lessons to other students. The generation to adapt this 'method' I believe will formulate students that can impact the world in greater depth and wilder ways.