• Priorities: School Bullshit
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I'm in conflict with myself and don't really have anyone to talk to. So I make films, or at least I try to. Right now I'm in year 11, the second last year of school. I attend school 6 days a week and my workload has just gotten a fuckton heavier. This is bad news. The other night I was going through all my old school books and whilst flicking through them saw a pattern, I didn't remember [i]any[/i] of the stuff I had spent hours in class writing about which sort of worries me. I don't particularly care about anything I'm learning, it doesn't interest me much and anything that seems exciting is just sucked dry of fun. It seems I just memorize short term facts, regurgitate them on paper only to gain the approval of the teachers and stay out of shit, this process has been going on for the majority of my life and isn't rewarding or fun at all except now I do it 6 days a week with several other large assignments always due (good bye free time). With even more of this bullshit to come this and next year I wonder what would happen if I just stopped doing the work and instead focus on what I really actually love. Filmmaking is something I'm trying to master and in the process, make a career out of but school is really stopping that from being realized (at least the way I'm going now). I guess what I'm getting at here is kinda vague, I'm not great at verbalizing my ideas (hence my love of cinema). Should I drop the bullshit and start doing what I love again in my free time or should I just power through it and try to get good grades while I'm here? What's the worst that could happen if I just stopped handing in all this time consuming work, It's not like I'm going to go on to university so the score they give me at the end of it all is pretty meaningless. I'd love some other perspectives on this, what do you think?
To me this is one of the main problems in the modern way of teaching, sure, the first few year's should be spent learning the basics of life, and common knowledge everyone should know. (Even if it's just so one can converse with other peole properly). Alot of stuff seems so redundant though, and as you say even if you might have to study for weeks to know it, if you're not interested in it, the second the test is done, it practically gets erased from ones memory. Question, is this high school you are on now, or some sort of movieschool you are in? If you are in highschool, you should think about the fact that you might have to finish the current year to continue onto another school which DOES fit the things you like to do, (in this case, making movies). If you already have some sort of degree, which enables you to go to a school you might want to follow, i'd say do it. Studying year's for some job you won't enjoy doing, (yet maybe making more money) or studying for some job you WOULD enjoy, I say study to be able to got to work in the morning without feeling like you'd rather work at the Mc'Donalds. Not sure if it makes sence, but that's how I see it.
fuck school
[QUOTE=MyAlt91;35806773]To me this is one of the main problems in the modern way of teaching, sure, the first few year's should be spent learning the basics of life, and common knowledge everyone should know. (Even if it's just so one can converse with other peole properly). Alot of stuff seems so redundant though, and as you say even if you might have to study for weeks to know it, if you're not interested in it, the second the test is done, it practically gets erased from ones memory. Question, is this high school you are on now, or some sort of movieschool you are in? If you are in highschool, you should think about the fact that you might have to finish the current year to continue onto another school which DOES fit the things you like to do, (in this case, making movies). If you already have some sort of degree, which enables you to go to a school you might want to follow, i'd say do it. Studying year's for some job you won't enjoy doing, (yet maybe making more money) or studying for some job you WOULD enjoy, I say study to be able to got to work in the morning without feeling like you'd rather work at the Mc'Donalds. Not sure if it makes sence, but that's how I see it.[/QUOTE] I'm in highschool at the moment and I don't plan to go onto university or any form of higher education afterwards (even a form of movieschool) as I have taught myself everything I know and feel I'm ready to make a feature film after school.
I don't remember most of the stuff I've learned, both in High School and College. I don't know anyone who does. But what sticks with me is the things I like, and I am making a career out of it.
I hated school with a passion college was good though
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