What is school so bullshit

[jixmixfix]

i lived in london, had friends in oshawa and family in toronto. both my ex and her brother (and like a quarter of the city) went to fanshawe . i think i might have a cousin in hamilton - i remember he wanted to study there but i don't remember what came out of that.

Yeah excellent college too bad toronto is a shit show. George brown seems decent I suppose.

 

[Society]

Yeah excellent college too bad toronto is a shit show. George brown seems decent I suppose.

curious - do you prefer studying in toronto? why?

 

[jixmixfix]

curious - do you prefer studying in toronto? why?

Depends on the programs in Toronto. There are programs outside the city u wouldn't get in toronto. Toronto is a competitive zone so you need to jump through hoops to get anywhere good. Small businesses wouldn't even look at you unless you have some kind of training or experience.

 

[serenesam]

School is great to a certain extent. I believe life experiences are much better.

 

[entropie]

School is great to a certain extent. I believe life experiences are much better.

No, school is

 

[serenesam]

No, school is

I certainly agree with you to a certain extent in that I found public school K-12 to be a waste of time. College on the other hand was definitely a good experience maybe because I had professors that wanted us to challenge ourselves and think deeply about many issues. Actually, I balanced my experiences by taking 50% of my professors designated as being very difficult because they had sad faces at ratemyprofessors and the other 50% with happy faces. Always great to maximize your experiences.

 

[jixmixfix]

School is great to a certain extent. I believe life experiences are much better.

School degrades knowledge and life experiences into a classroom when they should be experienced outside the classroom.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I for one am always relieved when I learn that instead of going to one of those money-grubbing accredited medical schools, my surgeon picked up his skills on the street and living life.

 

[Rasofy]

 

[Thalassa]

School degrades knowledge and life experiences into a classroom when they should be experienced outside the classroom.

I actually feel this a lot about certain subjects. There should be a balance.
[MENTION=325]EffEmDoubleyou[/MENTION]'s example is completely ludicrous, but for many topics, I am in full agreement with you.

In fact after three years as a Lit major, I began to feel like I was being forced to actually formulate my opinions and interpretations to what professors wanted to hear.

Not only that, but I also wrote some papers in college that were based on compare/contrast of essays written by grad students working on MA in some kind of literature, and I realized that some of their interpretations were borderline insane.

I realized I could go to grad school and get a degree projecting my own childhood traumas on to other people's books.

I'd rather just write books of my own.

Choose life.

 

[Coriolis]

School degrades knowledge and life experiences into a classroom when they should be experienced outside the classroom.

It sounds like you weren't taking the right classes.

I for one am always relieved when I learn that instead of going to one of those money-grubbing accredited medical schools, my surgeon picked up his skills on the street and living life.

I wouldn't want a surgeon whose only education was in the classroom.

 

[jixmixfix]

It sounds like you weren't taking the right classes.

No.

 

[netzealot]

School degrades knowledge and life experiences into a classroom when they should be experienced outside the classroom.

Then go to tech school.

 

[AOA]

I never needed to study nor do anything coz my future was secured from a very young age.

Nevertheless I made myself interested out of the illusion that I have to gain something out of it so opted to study at school any way [bearing in mind I never needed to]. It makes no difference to intelligence and if you're an imbecile you're really going nowhere regardless if you're carrying a degree, people will still treat you the same way and you won't get paid.

I went to the University of Cambridge to read Natural Sciences.

But I guess the only reason why it was truly #1 for its time was coz I went there. :/