we're a million miles away
Hugh MacLeod draws some interesting cartoons on the back of business cards at gapingvoid.com. Sometimes thought provoking, sometimes not, but this one stood out for me:
I think it speaks for itself.
Through about 16 years of school, I’m not sure I’ve ever been challenged to be a wolf. Some of the most useless information has been given to me. The times I have used information from the classroom and put it to use in real life are few and far between. This is my routine for tests:
Memorize, memorize, memorize, memorize, memorize, coffee, memorize, test, shit, shit, test, test, test, forget, forget, forget, etc.
And, excuse me, but it’s been working pretty damn well.
That’s beside the point.
Who the hell cares about the information?? If we valued the material we were learning, there wouldn’t be students emailing professors to recheck their test forms by hand. Not a lot of people care why they got it wrong, it’s just that they got it wrong. So long as you’ll never see it again, who cares? I certainly don’t.
When you’re paying $13,000 a semester to be a sponge, you’d damn well better come out with straight A’s. For a lot of people it’s just about the little piece of paper you get at the end of it all, and all the parties you went to in between tests just to forget. So fuck it.
That was also beside the point.
It pisses me off more than ever to think that I’ve just been herded around for the past 16 years. My academic career has not been molded around me. It’s been molded around a set path that I share with a thousand other students. Every person majoring in Computer Information Systems will have taken almost the same exact courses as me, with the exception of an elective here or there. How does anyone differentiate themselves when school’s creates commodities out of students?
Through about 16 years of school, I’m not sure I’ve ever been challenged to be a wolf. Some of the most useless information has been given to me. The times I have used information from the classroom and put it to use in real life are few and far between. This is my routine for tests:
Memorize, memorize, memorize, memorize, memorize, coffee, memorize, test, shit, shit, test, test, test, forget, forget, forget, etc.
And, excuse me, but it’s been working pretty damn well.
That’s beside the point.
Who the hell cares about the information?? If we valued the material we were learning, there wouldn’t be students emailing professors to recheck their test forms by hand. Not a lot of people care why they got it wrong, it’s just that they got it wrong. So long as you’ll never see it again, who cares? I certainly don’t.
When you’re paying $13,000 a semester to be a sponge, you’d damn well better come out with straight A’s. For a lot of people it’s just about the little piece of paper you get at the end of it all, and all the parties you went to in between tests just to forget. So fuck it.
That was also beside the point.
It pisses me off more than ever to think that I’ve just been herded around for the past 16 years. My academic career has not been molded around me. It’s been molded around a set path that I share with a thousand other students. Every person majoring in Computer Information Systems will have taken almost the same exact courses as me, with the exception of an elective here or there. How does anyone differentiate themselves when school’s creates commodities out of students?
I am not like rice.
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i like this
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