School makes no sense
Ah, humanity. So inventive, so explorative, so creative. All the things that could be possible, all the excitement and feelings, the hopeful optimism of youth.
Why is humanity packed in like sardines to sit inside eight hours a day every weekday for decades?
Why is the teaching method so industrial factory-based with its bells and timers, and so boring as well? Memorization?? What? That's not how people learn!
Why is there so much fluff in what is being taught, and not a lot of things that would make more sense? Why do we learn about cirrus clouds, body cells, sedimentary rocks, when we could learn about pop cultures of Japan, Korea and USA, and how to utilize that knowledge as a streamer or something?
My biggest problem with school system is the teaching method, I can't emphasize that enough. Learning is very individualistic, different people learn in very different ways, some need to doodle while listening, others need hands-on practical application, others might learn more visually and so on.
I have learned more about history from Oversimplified videos than I could ever have imagined even being able to be interested about, when it comes to history. I thought history was boring. Why? G*d d*mn school system!
I genuinely thought history is boring, when it was the stupid teaching method that was boring! What a waste! Now I am actually excited about history and love learning about it.
WHY is the teaching method in schools so boring?
Not only that, but 'the most common reason' for how people should be grouped together, is their birth year..? Huh? Why? That's so far from reality, I can't even roll my eyes hard enough. They box people in like little factory robots based on the manufacturing date of their physical body.
There are people that are young that are mature, and older kids may still be immature. It has nothing to do with the birth year, but your personality and soul, frankly speaking.
So why can't 'similar' people be grouped regardless of year? Why is everything so robotic and linear?
Why are schools CLINGING to this early-industrial, number-based factory method of boxing people in like robots, when they should be more free to express their humanity, creativity and invididuality. Heck, maybe some students might figure out creative ways to learn the teachers didn't think about.
Also, the subjects.. holy cow. I realize everyone should know the BASICS of the world, so teaching about 'ignius rocks' might be a good idea, if it's done in a minimal, generic way.
But why do schools dig SO DEEP into useless detail, is beyond me. Do we really have to know in ridiculous detail how some insect mating ritual works or what happens to rocks if they collide with other rocks? We COULD be learning about spirituality, or how corporations are screwing people over, or how dog psychology (or female or child psychology) works, or how men are treated in the system that claims equality but favors women when it comes to judgements, sentences, and custody of kids, and especially how men are screwed over really bad when it comes to divorces.
They should teach how female psychology works, so men wouldn't be so clueless when it comes to relationships and such. Is it fair that only alphas can have game, because they have it in their genes, or could all men be taught just how women can easily manipulate men, and how much they sh1t test them?
Of course cirrus clouds are more interesting, right?
They could, of course, teach male psychology as well, but there's not that much to teach, because it's generally simple, easy to understand and quite linear - what you see is what you get. But they could teach at least the basics of how men's sexuality works without vilifying it, and why the sexuality of genders differs. They teach about the cell-level genitalia stuff, but they don't teach about 'courting' or 'PUA' stuff, or how females can have a career in onlyfjords, or other streaming stuff just by showing up, but men can't.
Hypergamy, polygamy, golddiggers.. but nope, instead, we learn about plant cells in excruciating detail.
People are supposed to be human beings, school is supposed to prepare people for life, but just how far apart are the realities? School reality is sitting in a boring facility, listening to droning teachers that yammer about irrelevant crap you will never need to know, even if it's true (and mostly it's questionable), then learning to, in a Pavlovian manner, obey the (factory) bells and timing everything.
The stupidest thing might be that it's all - it's ALL about memorization.
So those that are good at memorization or have a good memory, win. That's it.
They don't even try to explore different methods of learning that people might have. Oversimplified has made history so interesting because of his visual style, his humor and jokes, his amazing usage of old photos, his great music and explosive sound effects, and of course, coherent narrative, that makes it so interesting.