I know proper English. I can write in Stenography. I can multiply from my 1s to my 12s. I can tell you the quadratic formula in my sleep. I can tell you the differences between supply and demand, and tell you other different things in my 15 years of existence.
The reason this generation is losing interest in education, is because going to school, is when the aim is no longer to "learn", but our main goal turns into graduating and "getting it all over with". We lose interest in what we want to do, because we do not "learn". Instead, we are forced to "know", because that's just how it is. If you do not know, you are called uneducated, but people who spit on these people are called "successful", and "educated", not realizing that we start to know so much that we forget the deep meaning of learning, which involves enjoying and applying. How our grades would be the basis of our own knowledge, so that we could get a good job and earn money, because we are supposed to. Lines from text books, formulas, calculations, meanings, shoved down our throats because they say it is important. Because a sheet of paper is what this system is going to use to measure of intelligence. On a sheet of paper with a red ball pen, that either gives us a 100% rating, or an A+. It's great, but if you get a 74%, or a C, or a D, they'd say you could do better. In my 15 years of existence, I've been told to as a child, up to the present to learn off pages through the text books, get a good job, and help my family, but how can I when learning is now known as a form of memorizing, class standings, ratings, attendance in an institution called "school", to get, "a proper education", and knowing. Not applying. These grades, that we focus too much on that we forget our own personal health. We wake up at 5 am, spend 10-12 hours at school, go home and spend another 5 hours studying and doing assignments, and what? Get 4 hours of sleep? They ask us questions, but they never asked us about our own personal health, our emotions, our aims and goals, and questions that help us apply what we learn in the real world. We are forced to know, not to learn. Thinking about it now, just makes me feel sad about what we have come to. LEARN because you want to, not because you just "need" to.
