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Lunar_Umbrella2003
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 Posted - 08/20/2003 : 17:35:06
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The Effect of School on Teens
Is school merely a place to indulge your senses and build up your vast range of skills, or is there something else inside of this fairytale that we can’t see with the naked eye? This essay will focus mainly on the effects of what school has on our fertile minds, and whether or not school is more than we perceive it to be.
Whether school is the training ground for a new imperialistic generation of seministic thugs or just another certification, we can be sure that the main influence for students at an early age is definitely the teachers. It is an obvious fact that teachers have an effect on us at an early age, but to what extent and is it healthy. Is it more important to encourage their creative minds or to conform into the black and white society that we see today? Whether or not we should. How much control should a teacher have on us? Should we put a tremendous amount of faith into just another person with just another opinion or trust our instincts? I, personally feel that each person should have a right to grow and think on their own. However, many psychiatrists believe that we should have a respective role model to look up to, but then again the entire social theory itself is opinionative. I think the entire teacher occupation in the early stages is primarily conformist since the teachers are given guidelines to abide by and whatever creative spirit is pretty much ridiculed and forgotten about, so as being students and our main influential figures are teaching us that conforming is human. In the end, we’ve lost whatever human traits we once had.
To comment on our current government I would use the term “Bovine rule.” No longer do we have a say in our future and what we determine our lives to be, our fate is now sealed on a piece of paper we now call the constitution. School is no longer used to inspire our lives but to control them, if we don’t conform, the proper authorities are informed and everything is fixed, no pain, everything is perfect, unfortunately we failed to realize that pain is a human emotion and once we’ve “fixed” everything we have strayed so far away from human, we may as well be referred to as planetoid bums. The other day I received my report card and a grin found itself on my face, not because I’ve become used to these horrible, repetitive, bad marks but because I’ve realized that it no longer matters, as long as I can breath fresh air and smile from time to time I’m content with my life.
Even though as a democratic society we look down upon communist societies for their horribly eccentric and amusing propaganda. Therefore one must ask, are we not the same? We enjoy violently throwing our propaganda around like any other country, except it is considered patriotic and our duty, so in our common day society it’s either fascism or communism, true democracy does not exist.
So to conclude this essay of a thousand thoughts I would like to cry with you because we both realize the essay has taken a sharp turn into infinite sadness, yes that’s right it’s over, but to reflect on my essay, two words come to mind, responsive or redundant.
"The sky bled as the marionettes danced and danced away, tears flowed from my eyes creating an unhappy end to a beautiful day." Gregg Gibson 2003 |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
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Posted - 08/21/2003 : 14:33:47
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This Is It
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Posted - 08/21/2003 : 15:34:26
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| I also agree that we should be allowed to form our minds as we see fit. But where do you draw the line? Our decision will affect people other than ourselves, whether directly or indirectly, and whether greatly or minimally. So while people should be able to do as they see fit, they must make a conscious effort not to intrude on another's right to live either. When I was in school I always got the most out of teachers who made the subject interesting so I would actually give a crap to learn it as opposed to teachers who used a shoe horn to cram the subject into my brain as forcefully as possible. Give the students a reason to come to the subject rather than pushing the subject on them like "Learn this! DAmmit! Learn it! Tests! Exams! Angry teacher if you don't do it!" That gets really irritating. Another technique I hate is when they try to set up this classroom competition like "who's gonna be the winners and who's gonna be the losers!" For some reason they think that guilt is the best tool. All that did for me was make me despise school. Plus they need shifts. I didn't like the time I had to go to school. It was too early. I need like 10-4 or 12-6 or something. That would've made me so much more alert. Granted every night before bed I would get stoned so I'd wake up groggy as hell, but that shouldn't be held against me. If this country was a true democracy then we would've been able to vote for such a luxury. But they have invincible guidelines for dangerous subjects like school hours. |
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