My First Time ;)
Ok so I'm new to all this as you may or may not have noticed from the Title, the only way I've ever written before was in the form of short stories, most fictional. I'm sitting here listening to The Red by Chevelle, one of my favorite songs and I'm getting lost in it, it's something that always happens to me when I don't know how to start something, I get lost in my surroundings. This time I'm not letting my wandering brain take control, I have a goal and I'm going to achieve it, I'm going to finish my first post ever on my on-line Journal/Blog. Hmm, Blog, I wonder why people call this a Blog? The word Blog comes from Weblog, it's supposed to be a page devoted to link people to various sites on the web, one person looks up a handful of useful sites for different purposes, categorizes them, rates them, gives a small description and makes our lives easier. So I'm just calling this a Blog for the sake of the site Blogger but technically this is my on-line journal.
Enough about that, you see what happens when my mind wanders astray in different directions? I start talking useless nonsense. Let's talk a bit about me! Yea yea, "me me me, it's always about me", hey it is my journal, what do you expect me to talk about?!
Well on with me...Finished school last summer, a big accomplishment for me being I was left back and had to do 10th grade twice (long story) but I guess it was all for the best, it's those little mistakes that sometimes turn out to have not so little consequences that mature you for life.
I was thinking the other day, "What have I learned in school?", at first I though, "Well I've learned some math, that's gotta be useful. History, a man has to know what happened in his past to ready himself for the future." I strained my mind for a little while longer and went through the different courses I learned in school trying to convince myself that I had obtained some kind of skill that would prepare me for the future. Truthfully all that history, math, English and other rubbish you learned in school is just a cover up, you're never gonna really use 90% of that stuff in the real world but school does teach you a ton of other useful stuff unintentionally that helps prepare you for life, only not intentional...
Ever been sent to the principles office?
I bet most of you have, even the best, most disciplined student has to have crossed one line or another in his or her 12 years in school. Well anyway, I sure know I have had my share of visits to the principles office but somehow I don't remember ever getting really punished, if hanging out outside with a couple friends "sweeping" the floors is a punishment then sign me up! Let's pretend for the sake of where I'm going with this, that having a free lesion outside picking up a plastic bag every now and then but mostly causing more havoc with your friends than you could ever dream of doing inside a lesson; is a punishment. How many times have you actually had to pay for what you have done?
For instance this one time my teacher wanted to know why I was cutting Gym class. The real reason:
I was lazy, wanted to have a free hour to sit around with my friends and smoke a cigarette and I depended more on my brains than on sheer force or the distance I could run, I mean school is supposed to teach you and make you smarter not to waist an hour of your time playing soccer or other things that most people do at home.
However the reason my teacher heard was far from that, she heard the sad story of how I was abused during my childhood at Gym class and how teachers used to laugh at me and students used to pick on me and finally I explained that I was deeply traumatized by my past experiences with that particular lesson, making it impossible for me to attend them....
HAHA! Yea right, yep that's it, I should have added that my Gym teacher sexually abused me when I was 5 along with the rest of that load of crap and it would have been perfect.
The teacher however was deeply moved by my modest story and with a tissue to her eye she not only let me go unpunished but also excused me from attending Gym class leaving me free to do as I wished with my free hour.
The point of that story, well other than it being one of my greatest successes in lying to a teacher it also helps me give an idea of what kids learn in school. I mean that idea couldn't have just popped out of thin air, school is responsible for me being smart enough to lie my way out of punishment, my experience in coming up with excuses paid off.
So what have we learned in school?
How to use the system to your advantage, how to deal with different types of people at different ages, how to make up an excuse for almost anything and basically how to handle everyday situations without the help of math and history.
I'll bet you anything that half the people who read this are saying 'What a load of crap!', well now stop and think, how many people reach the age of 30 and still remember all that rubbish they learned in school? Going through school is like reading a very long boring book, half the time your thinking of girls/boys, a good movie you saw, how good it would be to be outside and you're just skimming through the pages without the contents of the book registering in your brain. If you were to read that book for a second time then things would start registering, a third and you would have pretty much mastered the important/interesting parts of the book. Does that mean I think people should go through school 2-3 times?
Hell no! Are you insane? That's where higher education comes in, you take all that useless information you had thrown at you for 12 years and relearn it. Collage, universities or whatever other form of higher education you choose to attend, that's where you actually learn something that you can use and you will most likely remember what you've learned for a reasonable amount of your life. Like I said at the beginning, school is not totally useless, it does teatch you things, it's just the things they try to teach you there that have no real use for most people, the things you actually do learn are what build your character later on in life. So if you have a blast through high school and pass with a C+ average then you have learned all you need to know in-order to get on with the rest of your life and when you finally go to collage then you'll be taught things that will prove to be useful while searching for a job. If on the other hand you spend collage skipping classes and generally not learning the things that you're paying to be taught then not only are you spending a shit-load of money for nothing but you're wasting your life and jeopardizing your future.
Ok I think I've said enough for today, there's no point in making myself write till it gets to the point where I'm not enjoying it (unless I'm getting paid for it)...see ya!
Enough about that, you see what happens when my mind wanders astray in different directions? I start talking useless nonsense. Let's talk a bit about me! Yea yea, "me me me, it's always about me", hey it is my journal, what do you expect me to talk about?!
Well on with me...Finished school last summer, a big accomplishment for me being I was left back and had to do 10th grade twice (long story) but I guess it was all for the best, it's those little mistakes that sometimes turn out to have not so little consequences that mature you for life.
I was thinking the other day, "What have I learned in school?", at first I though, "Well I've learned some math, that's gotta be useful. History, a man has to know what happened in his past to ready himself for the future." I strained my mind for a little while longer and went through the different courses I learned in school trying to convince myself that I had obtained some kind of skill that would prepare me for the future. Truthfully all that history, math, English and other rubbish you learned in school is just a cover up, you're never gonna really use 90% of that stuff in the real world but school does teach you a ton of other useful stuff unintentionally that helps prepare you for life, only not intentional...
Ever been sent to the principles office?
I bet most of you have, even the best, most disciplined student has to have crossed one line or another in his or her 12 years in school. Well anyway, I sure know I have had my share of visits to the principles office but somehow I don't remember ever getting really punished, if hanging out outside with a couple friends "sweeping" the floors is a punishment then sign me up! Let's pretend for the sake of where I'm going with this, that having a free lesion outside picking up a plastic bag every now and then but mostly causing more havoc with your friends than you could ever dream of doing inside a lesson; is a punishment. How many times have you actually had to pay for what you have done?
For instance this one time my teacher wanted to know why I was cutting Gym class. The real reason:
I was lazy, wanted to have a free hour to sit around with my friends and smoke a cigarette and I depended more on my brains than on sheer force or the distance I could run, I mean school is supposed to teach you and make you smarter not to waist an hour of your time playing soccer or other things that most people do at home.
However the reason my teacher heard was far from that, she heard the sad story of how I was abused during my childhood at Gym class and how teachers used to laugh at me and students used to pick on me and finally I explained that I was deeply traumatized by my past experiences with that particular lesson, making it impossible for me to attend them....
HAHA! Yea right, yep that's it, I should have added that my Gym teacher sexually abused me when I was 5 along with the rest of that load of crap and it would have been perfect.
The teacher however was deeply moved by my modest story and with a tissue to her eye she not only let me go unpunished but also excused me from attending Gym class leaving me free to do as I wished with my free hour.
The point of that story, well other than it being one of my greatest successes in lying to a teacher it also helps me give an idea of what kids learn in school. I mean that idea couldn't have just popped out of thin air, school is responsible for me being smart enough to lie my way out of punishment, my experience in coming up with excuses paid off.
So what have we learned in school?
How to use the system to your advantage, how to deal with different types of people at different ages, how to make up an excuse for almost anything and basically how to handle everyday situations without the help of math and history.
I'll bet you anything that half the people who read this are saying 'What a load of crap!', well now stop and think, how many people reach the age of 30 and still remember all that rubbish they learned in school? Going through school is like reading a very long boring book, half the time your thinking of girls/boys, a good movie you saw, how good it would be to be outside and you're just skimming through the pages without the contents of the book registering in your brain. If you were to read that book for a second time then things would start registering, a third and you would have pretty much mastered the important/interesting parts of the book. Does that mean I think people should go through school 2-3 times?
Hell no! Are you insane? That's where higher education comes in, you take all that useless information you had thrown at you for 12 years and relearn it. Collage, universities or whatever other form of higher education you choose to attend, that's where you actually learn something that you can use and you will most likely remember what you've learned for a reasonable amount of your life. Like I said at the beginning, school is not totally useless, it does teatch you things, it's just the things they try to teach you there that have no real use for most people, the things you actually do learn are what build your character later on in life. So if you have a blast through high school and pass with a C+ average then you have learned all you need to know in-order to get on with the rest of your life and when you finally go to collage then you'll be taught things that will prove to be useful while searching for a job. If on the other hand you spend collage skipping classes and generally not learning the things that you're paying to be taught then not only are you spending a shit-load of money for nothing but you're wasting your life and jeopardizing your future.
Ok I think I've said enough for today, there's no point in making myself write till it gets to the point where I'm not enjoying it (unless I'm getting paid for it)...see ya!
posted by Y.Y. at 1:25 AM
2 Comments:
you certainly DID enjoy it, or why else would you wrote so much?? :p ;)
interesting profile, sharing a lot of your likings ;)
lol I didn't realy think anyone would read this.
I did enjoy writing till the last few lines so I cut it short :P
You have a pretty cool profile yourself, to bad it's not open for comments.
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