[quote]Agressive Napkin wrote:
Just my opinion:
American education sucks because people don’t care. (trust me, I’m a high school student) A large minority of the kids care, but everyone else isn’t there to learn.
People go to school because they have to get a grade to get a piece of paper to get a job. If education focused less on how many points you had and what your percent was, and more on how much you learn, we’d be in better shape. For instance, I do ALL of my Spanish work, and know 0 Spanish.[/quote]
Napkin-
I just noticed you’re a high school student. So you’re definitely getting your education via a less than ideal system. But, you don’t have to accept it passively. If you want to learn, than go out and learn. It doesn’t matter if so many others don’t care, do you care about yourself? There’s plenty of free knowledge available in libraries and on the internet.
I will say this also- nothing you study in high school is really that hard, it’s all general knowledge, except for maybe your Spanish, and you’ll be a better person for the exposure. Dig in and learn it whether you’re especially interested in it or not. Besides, you’re gonna be there anyways, may as well take something away with you in exchange for your time.
What you said about your Spanish indicates a problem. Unless you just hate the subject, how is it you can do all your work, but know 0?