I was speaking with a very, very good freind of mine, and she said something that made me cringe.

“I’m such a loser…I dream of winning nobel peace prizes for finding cures of diseases and all that….such a loser I am.”

Now, this is just another example of the idea that most people have about education where I live. They think it’s unimportant. What’s worse, they think it’s some evil thing to be reviled. I learned from other kids that I should hate school, and so I assumed that was right. Then I realized that I love being at school. The structure that it gives. The wealth of knowledge and resources available to me there. The contacts and intellectuals that I can find there. The intellectual discourses that were possible to be sparked while learning something interesting.

Unfortunately, the children that actually give a damn about school are outnumbered by overwhelming majority. Most of my fellow pupils are dumb jackasses who think they’ll actually make it to the NBA and make full scholarship when they’re failing out of high school.

It’s un-fucking-believable.

Luckily, the kids in honors are sane. It’s like an aristocrasy almost. Where the honors kids are involved in all of the clubs, and are responsible for the other children. Like in George Orwell’s “Animal farm” the pigs took control because it was so easy to deceive the other animals. I now know why these sons of bitches that are politicians became politicians. They were smart enough to realize how easy it is to be the one controling the money flow.

I can’t even talk with an “average” kid. It’s just too frustrating sometimes that now I just don’t deal with them. They don’t give a shit about their school. They graffiti on the walls everyday, throw chicken bones on the ground after lunch, toss garbage everywhere. These fucktards are all wannabe gangsters. Their goal in life is to be a part of a gang, and seem like the most badass person. They spit on all that I hold dear: decency, education, logic, human life. A woman was shot and killed just the other day by some young punk who wanted to be badass by killing someone. She had been selling fruit there for as long as I can remember, and she was an asset to the community, and a nice woman whom people liked to talk to. Then some prick came by and ended it all trying to act tough.

It’s a shame that people don’t even value human life. Those kids didn’t have to kill her. They could have waved the gun around and still got what they came for, but they wanted to kill her just to make a point to thier buddies.

I can’t even fucking talk about it anymore.

 

-Out

*Coming back ten minutes later*

Ok, well, now that I’ve cooled off a bit, I’d just like to add that in the old days people used to have respect for another’s property. A respect for your community. Respect for other people’s hard work. Unfortunately now, we don’t have that, and it’s just saddening. It’s just the attitude that makes all of the difference. We’re an “F” graded school, but I know plenty of students who’s whole life is school and grades, and they do well at it. They take AP classes, they stay after school for hours working with their teachers, working hard, but that’s less than 5% of the student body.

The point is, the ones who work will be the leaders of the world, and the rest will be flipping burgers. (Or off killing people.)

 

-All the best.

P.S. Another good post on this: www.Ponderbox.wordpress.com Entitled “The Wordless Wars: Down With Intelligence”