Persuasive Essay: Why I Hate School But Love Education

Why I Hate School but Love Education

It’s funny really, how a system with so much potential can blind us to our own potentiality. Our perception of the schooling method of choice has us caged in a self perceived mental prison slowly poisoning us with skin deep ideas and self doubt. From a young age we are taught, (that is, schooled), to put our grades over our mental needs; we are deliberately declawed and expected to conform into a pre tamed society , and all of this for an unfair attempt at what we presume to be “education”. I know that a part of my resilient adventurous youthfulness has been dreadfully replaced by the conformity that comes along with these cinder block walls, and I will forever mourn.

The kids of our youth have been limited

Many individuals could provide rigid arguments as to why condoning authority is a necessary foundation for life in prosperity. Without rules, how would we ever reach a point of total productivity? Without rules, what would there be to stop us from total anarchy? For Annalisa Barbieri, an editor for The Guardian Life Style, “obedience is just another word for good behavior” (4). Afterall, my own little pup Bella was sent to a training camp at the start of her arrival. Her lack of compliance made her impossible to live with. From the shoe chewing, to the stealing of clothes, up to the little presents she just adored to leave on the side of my brothers bed, eventually it seemed only logical to have her learn how to obide. The up came back as if brand new. Never again did I have to search for a stray sock. So how bad can the state of submissivity possibly

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln; none were products of a school system yet no one could reasonably claim that they were uneducated. . We tend to confuse the word “success” as a codependent factor of schooling but history has continuously proved us wrong. “What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system.”(Lessing 42) Perhaps we only learn how to memorize equations, dates, and names, in order to pass then forget it all in time for another test. Our education system has become survival of the fittest, obstinately forcing you to excel with fear of getting left behind . Instead of coming up with consequences that will scare kids into not cheating, why don’t we begin by asking ourselves why children everywhere see it okay to cheat? Why don’t they want to learn what’s being thrown at them? Our motivational force ought to be passion, but this is lost the moment we step into the four wall confinement that is built to train us rather than inspire