| School Lies |
Here's a list of the common lies that schools tell their students.
- You need school to learn!
- This is the single most common lie that schools will tell you. It is also completely incorrect. There are many, many ways to truly learn. School is not one of them. The only things schools teach are blindness, obedience, and conformity. Schools don't care about your real education. They just care about you writing the right answers on a piece of paper. And if you do, you're rewarded with a few letters and numbers that decide what your future will be like. The things most relevant to my career choice I learned completely without school. School held me back, actually. The few useful things I learned in the early grades could have easily been learned outside of school. Anything I could ever want to learn in the future could easily be found on the Internet or by conversing with others. What's the point of school?
- Without school, children wouldn't meet friends!
- This is also completely untrue. If school didn't exist, there would be many new social events or places where would-be students could meet each other. It's as simple as that.
- School improves students' social abilities!
- This could be true, if you consider beating each other up, stealing, getting into drugs, smoking, and alcohol, and breaking the law in other ways an improvement. Yes, all of these things happen regularly under the authority's "watchful eye". This lie is similar to the above one, so read above as well if you haven't already.
- You are just a kid. You don't know what's good for you.
- Now this is just flat-out insulting. Just because of our age, we are inferior, ignorant human beings? The point is, we are human beings. Just like the teachers. Just like the principals. Just like the parents. We are equals. We are all equals. Nothing gives anybody the right to treat anybody else like this. It has to stop. We know much more than you'd think. We know what's good for us.
- You're just a teenager. You think you know everything.
- This is almost as insulting as the above lie, and it is very similar. Many people (adults) have pulled this one on me when I try to have a polite discussion with them about my beliefs on school. I am quite sure that no teenager actually thinks that they know everything. I don't even know where this saying came from. If there are truly teens who believe so, then I have never met one. What is with all of this age discrimination? People don't notice it because it's been part of our society for centuries. Well, I believe society needs some changes. Age discrimination is ridiculous and needs to end.
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