Logicless Logic

in preparation of...

i don't know why i have so many comments on school all of a sudden. so, it is generally accepted that we go to school for education to prepare for the long, not-very-easy journey of life. you know what i say? you should know but i will say it anyway. BULLSHIT.

before anyone in support of this highly ineffective system decides to shit on me, let me first explain myself. school lessons are relevant. they get you prepared. TO TAKE EXAMS. in other words, the school is a place where you learn lots of stuff, take the exams, graduate and get a certificate. the ticket to the next level of studying and memorising and your next, higher level piece of toilet paper. my age old argument of the irrelevance of differentiation, integration, drawing trigonometric graphs to majority of one's practical life then comes into play. so a businessman doesn't need such knowledge, as much as a chemist has little use for geography, nor a doctor for literature, blah blah blah etc. you know the argument. which brings me to the next question.

why is the school doing this?
my logical deduction would be so as to cram as much knowledge into a young persons mind, because knowledge is power and this knowledge would aid in his job prospects in the future because he knows this and this and this and has a degree in that and something else. nice idea, good intentions. but zero for execution. why? because most of this stuff does not interest the students, thus the knowledge does not stay. they memorise the stuff for exams and forget it right after the exams. unless they happen to have photographic memory or are students who are interested in basically everything happening in the entire universe in that case we have found a new species of homo sapiens because that is IMPOSSIBLE. and knowledge would be outdated and we would have to relearn what we learnt every few years. like how pluto is no longer a planet. or how the earth was proven to be round. i am sure people long ago thought for a fact the earth was flat. economic theories, however relevant, is but theories.
however, there will always be some relevant things to learn so that we know how to survive in this world. so it cannot be said that school is totally useless. we make friends and learn new social situations after all. like how to scold a teacher in preparation to scolding your future boss. scolding your peers to scold your colleagues. and scolding your juniors to scold your employees. these are some relatively useful lessons we learn in school.

therefore, i have come to the conclusion that schools exist to prepare the students for most of the part, nothing.

justin.

posted by justin @ 1:04 AM