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Originally posted by Melusine:
That's a fantastic post Aelia, I couldn't agree more! I agree for different reasons than Magik though, who must have been pretty effed up as a teenager to keep insisting they are collectively insane [img]tongue.gif[/img]  (though I'll admit the majority of em have no business in a university, as they'll realise later on)
I agree because I think it's sad everybody's whining about having to *gasp* learn new things when they should be glad about it. There were subjects in school that I hated doing, but I've always been grateful for the opportunity to acquaint myself with a broad range of topics, to have at least an inkling of general knowledge... Your question why in the world one would choose to be ignorant when one could have all the knowledge that is offered is absolutely spot on.
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Whew, managed to get on for a short while from a relative's computer, going to add a few comments....
Most teenagers aren't collectively insane, they're just plain idiots in my opinion. Being a bit crazy can be entertaining, but I would not call it either intelligent or entertaining when my fellow teenagers discuss their last visit to the bathroom! They are SO horribly uncivilized, they eat with their mouths open, they have no manners and they are EXTREMELY shallow. I hate them.
Melusine, I am not whining about learning new things, in fact, I LOVE learning stuff a lot of the time. But the way it is being taught sucks so much that it becomes an unpleasant chore instead of a delightful task. I don't think that everyone should be reduced to just having a couple of classes, but perhaps if I had had only half as much Chemistry or Physics I could have used the left-over time to learn other things pertaining more to what I would like to see as my future career.
To be perfectly honest I actually liked both Physics and Chemistry for the first five months, but beyond that it grew into stuff that I would not ever need to know unless I chose a career that had something to do with it. It's nice to know such handy facts as what is Acid, what is Base, what makes Acid acidic, what makes Base basic. But I do not need to know what shapes atoms have! It isn't even something that might pop up in casual conversation and prove to be interesting.
Listen very carefully to what I said, I did not say that anything that we didn't find a use for every day shouldn't be taught. I said that there was just TOO MUCH of that stuff that we would only find a use for once a YEAR being taught.
Sorry if this post sucks, but I'm at a horrible keyboard, I've only had 4 hours of sleep and I'm forceed to hurry.