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.





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School systems still teach useless things NO ONE ever needs in their daily life, ESPECIALLY modern daily life.

A streamer that makes good money from their career, isn't going to need to know the capital of every single gosh-darned country in the world, let alone their economic histories. What the heck, schools?

A yoga teacher would be much better off knowing about how the governments and corporations work together to screw people over, how they use legalese and the legal system to make people do things they wouldn't, if they knew what they were doing when signing 'applications' and 'registrations'.

It's like school doesn't want to ACTUALLY inform people, because then people could make informed decisions and see all the evil that's being pushed to control people. They want obedient workers, not intelligent, independent thinkers and observers of the world and society.

The end product is not a better, more creative, more inspired, more excited, more energetic and more capable and able human being, the end product is a depressed, confused, not-prepared, anxiety-ridden, caffeine-addicted mess that wants the sweet release of alcohol and drugs so they have something to look forward to every weekend.

The end product SHOULD be better and more spiritually and creatively expansive humanity, that finds solutions to the awful problems of war, poverty, greed, corruption and corporate fascism, but instead, we get social justice warriors that have been indoctrinated with all the things that bring humanity down and turns people into little moloch-worshipping demonoids.

The school system should, in ANY case, not be about sitting inside a boring, ugly facility building 8 hours a day, yearning to roam free in the forests while looking out the window, when the 'teacher' drones on about some really idiotic detail about irrelevant crap you will never need to know in real life.

They don't teach relationships, they don't teach money, they don't teach what you NEED.

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You have to learn all the life skills all by yourself.

Many people have made great videos about this stuff, but I don't think anyone has written a 'comprehensive list' of all the things wrong with school system.

The idea of a school is great, but it shouldn't be a 'mandatory' thing (and it REALLY isn't, but it's too hard to try to explain, and too long a story - if you know about 'Freeman on the Land', then you know).

It also shouldn't be based on physical age, but mental and spiritual maturity. Some people are not READY to learn some things at the same age as others, and yet others might be able to learn that stuff even earlier. So for the advanced people, it's boring, and for the not-yet-ready, it's just traumatic and terrifying.

I don't also understand, why everything is timed. You have a test? Only one chance to get it right, and it's timed, so if you have to use the toilet or something, you are screwed. What kind of fresh hell is that?

Think how people learn in the real world - they can use search engines to research things, watch videos, try out things by themselves. If all these other, NON-MEMORIZATION-based, ACTUAL learning methods were allowed in schools, what would it hurt, but the teachers' authority, perhaps? Why can't I just go to a forest to learn about nature and trees, why do I have to sit inside and read it from some boring textbook, written by someone neither knows nor cares, and has put their own opinionated agenda into it?

Why can't I choose my own learning method, maybe I want to rather watch an Oversimplified video and then some other youtube videos and play a video game about some historical topic, instead of simply reading the same text excerpts everyone else does, and then memorize that bit for some test, so I can get a 'score number', instead of actually learning and knowing it?

The other alarming thing that I NOW realize is.. where's the fun? It's INCREDIBLY fun to learn, if you are excited and care about the topic!

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I did VERY well in school in topics I actually liked and cared about, but as soon as there was a forced 'midochondria is the powerhouse of the cell' (and this time, I don't care if I misspelled it, because what the heck kind of crap is THAT to teach some teenager that has energy, drive and raging hormones to go explore the world and live out their lives and enjoy and create??), I naturally rebelled against it and my mind wanted to jump out the window just to escape the excruciating boredom of the topic and the teaching method of that topic.

Taking notes? I NEVER read even one letter of my own notes, although I took a lot of them just because there was nothing else to do. Of course I scribbled and drew more than I ever took notes, and I almost never did my homework (though this, believe it or not, was not intentional, I just somehow every time kept pushing it off until it was too late or I forgot. I MEANT to do it, and felt very guilty about it, but somehow, it just never got done, except some rare occasions, fo course).

How the heck would anyone learn by listening to some idiot drone on about irrelevant crap, and then taking notes and memorizing something for a test? Is this the best they could come up with?

Think about the marvellous plethora of learning methods you can use - when I leaned Japanese, I used all kinds of methods, I didn't limit myself to just memorization, for crying out loud. When I was learning to read kana, I used Street View to roam around in Japanese cities to try to read their signs. It was 'real-life' stuff, and your brain knows the difference between a boring textbook and real-life knowledge, so it's immediately more interesting.

Why are schools relying so heavily on the MOST BORING way of 'learning' ever invented?

Schools don't understand humanity, humans, or people AT ALL, and this COULD very well be intentional - which means, that someone understands it all too well, so all creativity and fun has to be suppressed.

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Fun? What's that?

Some kind of side effect of something?

When learning is fun, you learn more efficiently, almost effortlessly. When I learned Japanese, not ONE second of that was boring or repulsive. It was all JOY, it was enjoyable to learn - every single word was a treasure to me, because it was so much fun to learn it.

I never knew languages could be so much fun, I never associated fun with studying things.

This is one of the biggest balls school has dropped. Why is all fun removed, why are schools such sterile, facility and institution-like, boring, colorless places?

It almost seems that fun is REMOVED from schools deliberately. As soon as you are having fun in any kind of way, some teacher will tell you to spit the gum out or stop doodling, because you are supposed to be taking notes, or or or.. you know the drill, probably all too well.

Why is it such a carrot and stick-system, instead of just having the reward be the FUN of learning? The topic itself doesn't even matter as much as how much fun it is to learn if you are excited to learn it, if you are having fun with the learning method, if you are allowed to express your own, possibly quirky individuality, if you are allowed to be yourself and utilize that to learn!

Instead, you have to FORCIBLY FIT into a pre-determined mold, and if you don't, you are punished. You HAVE to learn by memorization, there's no other way allowed.

You HAVE to 'show your work', even if you always arrive at the correct result without knowing how to 'properly do the work'. It's insane, in real life, RESULT is all that matters, not HOW you got that result! In real life, you NEVER have to 'show your work', you only need to know the correct answer! (I am thinking math, but I am sure it applies elsewhere as well)

What a waste it is to put energetic, creative, full-of-life-and-energy-type people to sit inside a boring facility 8 hours a day for years and years, when everything in them screams to do otherwise.

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BEWARE! Avortac4 is a troll trying to waste everyone's time with such idiotic comments. Look at his posts. He doesn't think anything in any film makes sense. His post may seem like it makes sense in the first sentence or two. But he always quickly wanders off into a completely idiotic idea, and then writes a wall of text that makes no sense. And his sole purpose is to waste your time, thinking he's cute for doing so. Don't feed the troll. If you write a comment, you're giving this troll EXACTLY what he wants. Don't comment after my comment.

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I don't think he's a troll - I think he's on the autism spectrum and doesn't understand many things most people do.

In addition, most of the crap is regurgitated from screenrant. His lunacy isn't even original...

Don't comment after my comment.


Oops.. at least you know I read your whole post!

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Don't see what any of this has to do with The Breakfast Club, would probably have been better suited to G.D.

And did this rant really need to be that long winded and take up 5 different posts?

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Can it be? Can it be that, for once, I agree with avortac4?

Yes. Yes, it can.

Although it has little to do with the forum to which it was posted.

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LOL, you *read* that???

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No, I didn't read all of it. But I read enough to know the direction of it. These ideas are not novel and I've been in this discussion enough times to recognize that I'm on his side on this one.

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