To do well in life, the first objective is to do well and get good grades in school.
Who said this? That is one of the worst lies I have ever heard in my 15 years living on this planet.
So, what is the education system about? Mainly memorizing. There are ways to make memorization easier, like mind maps and understanding the material, but at the end of the day.
Guess what it still is.
Yes, stupid memorization. It is rote. It leads to depression.
Look at my flashcard pile from F4. 600-ish items. I already gave up on it because it seemed like a death pathway.
And we don’t even get paid. Child labour?
I’m saying this about the education system in general. It. sucks. There is no point in memorizing stuff about biology or such when you would never need to use it again.
Or math, after a certain point, it has become stuff that we would never use in daily life.
How much of the stuff here learnt is useful? For me, it’s only around 15%. The other 85% goes into the hydraulic press after the test.
And we have so much else that we want to do that we can’t because school sucks 8 hours of our lives every day, i.e. half of the time we spend awake is in a boring monotonous classroom with no stimulation and strict orders from teachers. At least make it start at 10Am and not 8Am.
Don’t get me started on Homework. In the past, I would get assigned “group projects” that took hours to complete. I would have preferred to do them myself, to be honest. It’s so hard to get a group of impartial people to co-operate to make a presentation or such. (I had no friends in F2 and almost none in F3, and I was still forced to fail at trying to do well.)
The monster of Exams. Do I need to say more? They do nothing but ruin our Mental Health depending on how much torture we can handle. Some teachers seem to understand the struggle and be a bit more chill. I appreciate those people, but it does not change the fundamental flaw of school. And to those who show no empathy, or constantly issue detentions, or the one teacher who thought it was ok to Sexual Assault us, I (and hopefully others) hope that you burn your sanity out because we will never like you.
One in particular was such a good manipulator, which is such a bad thing to do to the undeveloped brains of teenagers like me, trying to control what I say and what I can do.
Worst of all, my chinese teacher tortured us to do dictations every day. I burnt my ass out, and I bet everyone else did too, but they just tried to hide it. (In fact, doing stuff like this can be DETRIMENTAL to learning because of the intense anxiety I face every day.) Also ,the 1 bathroom break per semester rule is stupid. Seems like a human rights violation. No, in fact, what teachers are doing ARE multiple human rights violations that we can do nothing about because they possess the power. We could not oppose it.
At least bullies faced the “justice” of “sitting in a room to do work for 1 hour”. Teachers all got away without any trouble.
And to whoever invented school, I hope the Devil haunts you with horrible nightmares every day while you rot in the burning hell of God’s worst enemies as a stark reminder of what you have done to us.
I can never sleep. Regardless, goodnight to everyone who suffered through, or are currently suffering through school. It is tough. And it can feel unfair and pointless. You deserve rest. Again, good night.