I HATE SCHOOL

I hate school! 😣 Never have I more convincingly told myself that I hate a thing. I hate the fact that I have to get up early everyday to get ready to acquire information that I would not need in the future. I hate the fact that I'm tested by my ability to know what the teacher wants me to know, how he wants me to know it and present it the way he wants me to otherwise, I might not be qualified to advance to the next stage. I'm a square peg, I hate that I'm being forced to fit in a triangular hole, I hate it!

We all hate school for so many reasons. The rules, the annoying teachers, the uncomfortable seats, having to wake up early to go for class 😓, the books we have to read, sometimes the ugly outfits we have to wear, the terrible cafeteria food that breaks our hearts and make us fall out of love with our favorite food 😉... The list is unending. But there's one thing that tops the list of almost everyone that hates school, the EXAMS! The most inefficient way to test your "knowledge" of what you've been taught the whole semester. The one event so terrible that it has an illness named after it, 'exam fever'; that same event that has the highest turn out of all school gatherings, the one thing we spend hours, weeks, sometimes months of most of our childhood and teenage years preparing for! The one thing that makes most dread the so called "learning experience".

Here's the especially annoying part, you don't even get to use half of the knowledge your acquire in that four-wall institution of torment! Especially if you're from a country like mine where you are required to do at least 70 courses before you are stamped ready for the labour market 😓. It's so so frustrating.

While school might be the one of greatest screw ups in our history, we don't hate school because we hate knowledge or meeting kids, we hate it because of the way we are made to learn!

We spend on average 30 hours a week! In a class room with uncomfortable chairs and a teacher that's barking a subject you probably don't care about down your throat in a way you don't like and understand. We hate it because school takes the creative, athletic, clever, musically inclined person that you are and tries to force you to be one type of way. Think of it like we are all different shapes, squares, triangles, pentagons etc and school takes each and every one of us and force us through a very narrow cylindrical hole! It's sad, it's painful and we hate it!

We don't want to be forced to push our passions to the back seat for a while and have someone else dictate to us what we must know, how we must know it and when we must know it! It's simply not how we want to be. We want schools that cater to our different skill sets and teaches us how to develop those skills to make the world a better place. We want schools that actually teach us what we want to learn about not what they think we should learn!

So no! We don't hate learning, we hate the way we are forced to learn. We hate being forced down that cylindrical hole and being called stupid because we are hexagons! We hate that we are intelligent and we're being treated as though we are dumb because we don't fit into someone's definition of "intelligent". This school, we hate.

This kind of school is the unfair one. The one that the "equalists" never remember in their fight against inequality 😒. The one that defines fairness as judging an elephant, a goldfish, a monkey, a dog and a seal by its ability to climb a tree 😓. We hate this school! We are all geniuses in our own unique ways, but school, this kind of school treats us as dullards when we fail to meet up with its standard of intelligence and thus, we hate it!