Take It
End of Term
Arsala Khan
Issue date: 4/27/09 Section: Opinions
So, school pretty much sucks. Why? For so many reasons. First of all, it interrupts perfectly good naps. Why would I ever need to get up at 9:30 a.m.? I wouldn't. That's ridiculous.
I'm not even convinced I would recognize what the world would look like when the sky wasn't the solid blue of a late afternoon.
Secondly, school forces students to work. Ugh. I can't even get over that one. All these essays, quizzes, books and exams. No good.
But it's important, and I know that. Education has always been stressed on both sides of my family, and I never even had a choice as to whether or not I would go to college. It was always assumed.
And I'm glad of that. I feel like education suits me. Being in a school system is comfortable and recognizable to me because I've done it for so long, and I like it.
What worries me is how much people today don't consider
education important. I can't even count all the times that I've heard, "why is knowing about mitochondria important? I'm a business management major. I'll never use that information." Or something like, "algebra will never come handy to me in my field; I plan to be a historian." It's not about whether or not you'll use it every single day of your career, it's about being well-rounded.
I'm not sure that people consider that important anymore. Whereas people from the years before the Industrial Revolution, regardless of vocation, might have known the vague basics of how to construct the frame of a window or how to weld, today we can't even file our taxes by ourselves.
We're losing valuable intellect. I'm sincere when I say that humanity may be getting stupider and stupider. There's this movie called "Idiocracy" with Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph in it. It's not fabulous, but the premise of the film was brilliant. It suggested that thousands of years into the future, only the idiots of society would procreate while the educated would focus on their careers, thusly becoming extinct.
I'm not even convinced I would recognize what the world would look like when the sky wasn't the solid blue of a late afternoon.
Secondly, school forces students to work. Ugh. I can't even get over that one. All these essays, quizzes, books and exams. No good.
But it's important, and I know that. Education has always been stressed on both sides of my family, and I never even had a choice as to whether or not I would go to college. It was always assumed.
And I'm glad of that. I feel like education suits me. Being in a school system is comfortable and recognizable to me because I've done it for so long, and I like it.
What worries me is how much people today don't consider
education important. I can't even count all the times that I've heard, "why is knowing about mitochondria important? I'm a business management major. I'll never use that information." Or something like, "algebra will never come handy to me in my field; I plan to be a historian." It's not about whether or not you'll use it every single day of your career, it's about being well-rounded.
I'm not sure that people consider that important anymore. Whereas people from the years before the Industrial Revolution, regardless of vocation, might have known the vague basics of how to construct the frame of a window or how to weld, today we can't even file our taxes by ourselves.
We're losing valuable intellect. I'm sincere when I say that humanity may be getting stupider and stupider. There's this movie called "Idiocracy" with Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph in it. It's not fabulous, but the premise of the film was brilliant. It suggested that thousands of years into the future, only the idiots of society would procreate while the educated would focus on their careers, thusly becoming extinct.
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