Saturday 19 May 2012

Useless School Education

Surely most have felt this way about education.
It's not entirely true. The point of education is to provide opportunity for to learn which is pretty rad.
After almost 10 years of formal education, I've come to realise that you don't learn important things only in school.
(I get that you learn it hurts when you trip and fall, how to cook, etc etc on your own)
You can learn Science and Math on your own. Especially with how far the internet has progressed.
Point is, rote education is not the way.
Don't tell me to memorise Fx = F cos θ.*
Teach me how to derive it from Cos θ = Fx / F.*
I can only really hope that the people in charge are working on changing to critical & lateral thinking.
If you are a student angered by this, you can think of how they have to spend time & funding for these changes to be made. Eg. Many teachers need to be trained on how to teach the right way.
Anyway, if you have come to your senses about how you're not learning what you need to, it's about time you start.
Figure out your passions and how you would want to make them beneficial.
(Sigh) Last year of secondary school.


Maybe one day I will wear my geta slippers to tuition. Everything thrifted. I hate tuition.

 Paprika was faaab. I think you can learn a lot from film (I love animation) as an art.

Forgive my naiveté on the topic of politics and justice in the world. I think if more people start to acknowledge each other as honest, it'll slowly turn better?

*Sorry if you don't get the reference. This is from an upper secondary Physics reference book on the resolution of forces. When I read it I felt it was preposterous. Maybe I can give more examples? 
  • Teach us how to speak a language instead of the formulas of grammar.
  • Teach us why x becomes negative when we move it to the other side instead of "x is negative when you move it to the left."

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