A flawed system
So......for us students, summer has finally arrived. Enough books, waking up early (except fro some of us who work during the summer) and stuck all day inside learning shit we might never use in our lives. It's something everyone looks forward to: the sun, the sea, the night life. In other words, the whole lot, which is why most of us find ourselves during the summer.
As most of us had to experience before, we had examinations. Confined to a room within which we had to pour out information from our minds that most of us had ether been memorising weeks or the night before. For those who had been studying for weeks, sacrifices had to be made. You know what I mean. Going to bed early, missing a few activities, holding a bit back from things that make you happy, skipping naps, not reading books or drawing, in other words, the little things. All this just to attain some sort of recognition of what your capable of by the educational system.
Education has always aimed to improve it's students and yet, it is everywhere. We are constantly learning something new, a new system, a new function or some means to improve ourselves. We hunger to improve, yet we always aim to improve in ways that benefit us without also hindering us. If something is seen as not profitable by say, society, then you are expected to drop this task and conform to what you have been labled to become. If you think about it, most of us have conformed to the same system. Countless talents , hopes and dreams have been lost to conformity just because it is not seen as a viable option to bring in any profit.
And yet we still find 'rebels'. People who want to do things their way. Who don't care about what's is expected of them. Who dream about being something, that one day they'll get there, but they're going to do it the way they see fit. Does it bring them any money? Possibly. But fundamentally, does it make them happy? Yes. Because during the expression of themselves, they find a sense of happiness and makes them feel alive.
Summer brings those the liberty of being themselves, their true selves. There is an abundance of free time and wanting to do things, to fill in the empty gaps what once schools had control on. How that time is filled is always up to the individual and how that individual decides to fill up their time inevitably defines them.
As most of us had to experience before, we had examinations. Confined to a room within which we had to pour out information from our minds that most of us had ether been memorising weeks or the night before. For those who had been studying for weeks, sacrifices had to be made. You know what I mean. Going to bed early, missing a few activities, holding a bit back from things that make you happy, skipping naps, not reading books or drawing, in other words, the little things. All this just to attain some sort of recognition of what your capable of by the educational system.
Education has always aimed to improve it's students and yet, it is everywhere. We are constantly learning something new, a new system, a new function or some means to improve ourselves. We hunger to improve, yet we always aim to improve in ways that benefit us without also hindering us. If something is seen as not profitable by say, society, then you are expected to drop this task and conform to what you have been labled to become. If you think about it, most of us have conformed to the same system. Countless talents , hopes and dreams have been lost to conformity just because it is not seen as a viable option to bring in any profit.
And yet we still find 'rebels'. People who want to do things their way. Who don't care about what's is expected of them. Who dream about being something, that one day they'll get there, but they're going to do it the way they see fit. Does it bring them any money? Possibly. But fundamentally, does it make them happy? Yes. Because during the expression of themselves, they find a sense of happiness and makes them feel alive.
Summer brings those the liberty of being themselves, their true selves. There is an abundance of free time and wanting to do things, to fill in the empty gaps what once schools had control on. How that time is filled is always up to the individual and how that individual decides to fill up their time inevitably defines them.
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