What to say?
May I write about my experience with school? I would like to but you might be bored ^^
Anyway, with my little experience I came to the conclusion that with the system of marks and the way we were evaluated we could not learn correctly cause it spoilts the learning process. I'm the daughter of a teacher so I used to know how to exploit the system to my advantage.
You go to school, you sit down, you are force-fed like a goose and then you are asked to regurgitate your knowledge on a piece of paper.
The more your regurgitate, the higher your marks are.
Good pupil
Once the exam is past, you are allowed to make room (to empty your brain) in order to absord the next subject.
I got very good at that process. Now that I am depicting it, it makes me think of bulimics who eat as much as they can and then go to purge themselves in the toilets.
In the end there is barely anything left, only vague memories... But it is all shallow and emptied from its substance.
I like those humanistic values on which our educational programme is based.
Thus, we should know everything : Mathematics, History, Geography, Literature, Sports, Music...
That's the goal. I like this idea. It's probably naive, idealistic but it would annoy me if it disappeared.
The thing is, with our educational system we are not even allowed to get curious (or if we are, it's a good coincidence) the answers are already given, nothing to whet the appetite, the food is already cooked, ready for us to swallow.
I got sick, I guess.
I understand your point about experience and how important it is (it is probably part of "whetting the appetite
).
Otherwise, if this knowledge is out of touch with the real word, it is one more alienation to the kid.
I know I tend to use this word a lot. It's because I feel alienated in my everyday life. I really do.
I chose to study economics cause it is really not a noble subject.
It's a subject one doesn't study with their heart, with passion. And as I have no passion for anything... i felt like it was the best subject for me ^^ (yeah, I love my logic ^^)
Why do you always mix religion with this Wildy?
All those extracts from religious texts made me feel very uncomfortable when I read your post.
You sound like a religious fanatic ^_^'
I don't really feel like the child of a pseudo-Creator created by Man himself.
Well, maybe it brings some answers to "the case of life", but they are all lame to me.
When I was 5, I remember I was on this swing in my grandparent's garden and I started to wonder what happened when people got old.
I first thought that they never stopped growing and that they got taller and taller.
I was first content with that and then I watched the poplars near my garden and I imagined giant people (very old people so) walking. Their legs were longer than the trees themselves.
And then I started to wonder why I had never seen giants before, walking through the trees.
I got the idea that it would be dangerous for young people, cause they would be so high that they would not see us and could accidentally kill us.
So, I started to think that they might be sent to another part of Earth, or to another world, once they reached a specific height.
Again, in their other world, they would have to move again once they reached another specific height.
See, the question of death was solved ^^
But then, as I was all happy with my explanation, I went to talk about it to my grandmother.
She totally cut me while i was talking and she told me that people died when they were old.
:'(
Then she TRIED to relieve me talking to me about God and Heaven, etc...
As a child I wanted to believe that cause I absolutely denied the fact that I could be definitely separated from the people I loved and that, myself, I could die someday and just become nothing but dust.
I found it so unfair and absurd that I didn't even want to think of it.
Life could just not be like that...
Then I grew up, I stopped believing in lots of stuff, God was just another casualty of mine.
Honestly, Heaven vs Hell, who could be satisfied with such a simplistic thing?
And a world after Death?
A world after Death where I am going to find back my whole family? YUCK, I hope I'll get my privacy there. LOL
Of course I am anxious when I think about the End but I prefer my atheistic/realistic way to see the world than singing lullabies to myself...
Well I think people who believe in this kind of thing are in total denial...
But perhaps we are all like that, to some extent
