An institution originally noncompulsory, now a forced hellhole where otherwise reasonably intelligent people are forced to go for 14 years.
It instills in them a great hatred of what they otherwise would not despise; for example, many children who hate history don't actually hate the Civil War. They just hate that they're being forced to memorize names and dates. If they were left to their own devices, they would probably end up knowing the basics about the Civil War without having to spend pointless hours proving to some mindless beaurocrat that they know what they're talking about.
An institution that takes too long to not do enough. An institution that makes people believe that it is the only way anyone will ever learn anything or meet anyone. Apparently the real world and libraries and the Internet are not valid places of learning or places to socialize. Nope, you have to go with all the other inmates in an environment where you get no respect at all from dipshits with a special piece of paper that says they know how to humiliate you.
Pavlov's dogs, but teenagers.
A place where they're so freaking retarded they can't just make school noncompulsory. If it were noncompulsory, after a while everyone would get bored with playing video games and wander in to school to go to the chemistry lab where a chemist would show them how to do what they wanted to do.
A place where people assume you're incapable of just picking up Dickens on your own, so they have to force you to read Oliver Twist NOW so you'll hate classic literature all your life.
A place where well-meaning people destroy creativity.
School is not learning. People hate school, not a^2+b^2=c^2. They hate having to wake up early after doing homework late, having to go to a place where they have no free will and come home to where it's just reinforced by their parents.
School creates a huge inferiority complex and denies us our status as humans so corporations come in and promise us the chance to feel something intense if we just buy their snake oil. A chance to be respected if we buy their shoes, wear their wristbands, bring our mp3 players around in our $300 backpacks specially designed for the $800 bike we ride around so we can complain when we go through a puddle and splash our overpriced jeans made by abused children in India.
School is hell.
It instills in them a great hatred of what they otherwise would not despise; for example, many children who hate history don't actually hate the Civil War. They just hate that they're being forced to memorize names and dates. If they were left to their own devices, they would probably end up knowing the basics about the Civil War without having to spend pointless hours proving to some mindless beaurocrat that they know what they're talking about.
An institution that takes too long to not do enough. An institution that makes people believe that it is the only way anyone will ever learn anything or meet anyone. Apparently the real world and libraries and the Internet are not valid places of learning or places to socialize. Nope, you have to go with all the other inmates in an environment where you get no respect at all from dipshits with a special piece of paper that says they know how to humiliate you.
Pavlov's dogs, but teenagers.
A place where they're so freaking retarded they can't just make school noncompulsory. If it were noncompulsory, after a while everyone would get bored with playing video games and wander in to school to go to the chemistry lab where a chemist would show them how to do what they wanted to do.
A place where people assume you're incapable of just picking up Dickens on your own, so they have to force you to read Oliver Twist NOW so you'll hate classic literature all your life.
A place where well-meaning people destroy creativity.
School is not learning. People hate school, not a^2+b^2=c^2. They hate having to wake up early after doing homework late, having to go to a place where they have no free will and come home to where it's just reinforced by their parents.
School creates a huge inferiority complex and denies us our status as humans so corporations come in and promise us the chance to feel something intense if we just buy their snake oil. A chance to be respected if we buy their shoes, wear their wristbands, bring our mp3 players around in our $300 backpacks specially designed for the $800 bike we ride around so we can complain when we go through a puddle and splash our overpriced jeans made by abused children in India.
School is hell.
Student: Mr. Smith, when was the last time you needed to know the population density of Finland?
Teacher: IF YOU DON'T LEARN THIS POINTLESS SHIT EVEN MOST FINNS PROBABLY DON'T KNOW, YOU'LL NEVER GO ON TO A REALLY EXPENSIVE SCHOOL TO IMPRESS ANOTHER PROFESSOR, AND THEN GET A PIECE OF PAPER TO IMPRESS ANOTHER BEAUROCRAT!
Student:... Fuck this, I'm going to go carve wood.
Teacher: GET BACK HERE! DETENTION!
10 years later: ...He attributes his massive success to skipping school so he could practice woodcarving, which when coupled with his love of music led him to carve flutes. Now 26, Mr. Student is doing what he loves and living within his means. What a shame the rest of us are brainwashed fucks. This is Anchorman, XYA News.
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I am always ready to learn, I am never ready to go to school.
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Eric, damn it, you failed your chemistry test! You'll die of lung cancer now!
... But Dad, I want to be a poet...
SHUT UP, ERIC! You're going to fail at life and never get married or have kids or do anything because YOU FAILED HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY!
Dad, do you remember any of your high school chemistry?
Yeah, I remember all of it and it's what's helped me get this bullshit cubicle job. Now go get on your bike and go to school.
Teacher: IF YOU DON'T LEARN THIS POINTLESS SHIT EVEN MOST FINNS PROBABLY DON'T KNOW, YOU'LL NEVER GO ON TO A REALLY EXPENSIVE SCHOOL TO IMPRESS ANOTHER PROFESSOR, AND THEN GET A PIECE OF PAPER TO IMPRESS ANOTHER BEAUROCRAT!
Student:... Fuck this, I'm going to go carve wood.
Teacher: GET BACK HERE! DETENTION!
10 years later: ...He attributes his massive success to skipping school so he could practice woodcarving, which when coupled with his love of music led him to carve flutes. Now 26, Mr. Student is doing what he loves and living within his means. What a shame the rest of us are brainwashed fucks. This is Anchorman, XYA News.
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I am always ready to learn, I am never ready to go to school.
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Eric, damn it, you failed your chemistry test! You'll die of lung cancer now!
... But Dad, I want to be a poet...
SHUT UP, ERIC! You're going to fail at life and never get married or have kids or do anything because YOU FAILED HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY!
Dad, do you remember any of your high school chemistry?
Yeah, I remember all of it and it's what's helped me get this bullshit cubicle job. Now go get on your bike and go to school.
by Eric Greenfeld May 27, 2006
a place where you are lulled into a false sense of security, then your life gets so screwed up, you feel you cant take it any more, you get depressed and experience lots of downs, and some ups.
by silent-suicide November 26, 2006
the place you go and waste your day at, you come home and you feel like you have a lot of depression. FUN
by Nicolas Rueda Sabater April 23, 2006
A place that ruins you. Consider this: almost all potheads start when they are in school. School is a place where you are dependent on middle aged, sexist women who treat the male students horribly because of their own inability to get a man. School is a place where you are supposed to learn, but it has a deadline and you are punished for not completely understanding something in a week. A magical place where you suddenly realize the pointlessness of life because you see how yours will end up, and then society blames it on "bullies", or "violent video games/music/movies" or even "rebellion". School is where they preach creativeness but punish you for not conforming. You see the assholes who will control the rest of your life (boss) and some people try to ruin their teen years because they will fuck the rest of your life , yet are called "bullies" and are blamed for suicides and school shootings. The most successful people in life (Steve jobs, mark zuckerburg, Sean Parker, bill gates) never finished school. School is where the government abortions all of your talents and hopes so you can be the monkeys who only do what their told and make rich people richer and poor people poorer. School is the government sodomizing your potential, and expects you to be grateful. Intelligent people enter, dumb people full of useless skills leave.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”- Albert Einstein quote about school
by Tyler fucking Durden May 7, 2013
by woodstock hippy June 6, 2005
A government institution designed to torment the minds of innocent children who could have had a bright future, if it wasn't for school.
This is what the average student such as myself goes through on a typical school day:
7:00 AM: As I arrive at the school, first period (Science) has begun. I take a seat at my desk and proceed to take orders by the "teacher", about five minutes in, his directions for the assignment are so boring, that I just put my head in my arms and go back to sleep. I am awakened by an idiot shaking my desk "for the fun of it". I sigh, and as I take out the tenth paper relating to my assignment, a student "accidentally" trips over my bag, and falls down, which ends up giving me detention for "tripping a student". This is such bullshit that I tell myself that I am not, under any circumstances, going to this detention. As I finish writing 10 papers about how the mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell, my whole arm is badly aching and turning red, I turn this into the teacher, who just shoves it back into my arms, for not writing the assignment in cursive. He tells me that he will give me another detention for not "doing the assignment". The massive amount of anger inside of me is barley being controlled at this point. Thankfully, the best part of class comes, the end of the period where people are packing up.
After lunch, the school day ends. When I get home, I go straight to sleep to make up all of the lost sleep in the morning.
This is what the average student such as myself goes through on a typical school day:
7:00 AM: As I arrive at the school, first period (Science) has begun. I take a seat at my desk and proceed to take orders by the "teacher", about five minutes in, his directions for the assignment are so boring, that I just put my head in my arms and go back to sleep. I am awakened by an idiot shaking my desk "for the fun of it". I sigh, and as I take out the tenth paper relating to my assignment, a student "accidentally" trips over my bag, and falls down, which ends up giving me detention for "tripping a student". This is such bullshit that I tell myself that I am not, under any circumstances, going to this detention. As I finish writing 10 papers about how the mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell, my whole arm is badly aching and turning red, I turn this into the teacher, who just shoves it back into my arms, for not writing the assignment in cursive. He tells me that he will give me another detention for not "doing the assignment". The massive amount of anger inside of me is barley being controlled at this point. Thankfully, the best part of class comes, the end of the period where people are packing up.
After lunch, the school day ends. When I get home, I go straight to sleep to make up all of the lost sleep in the morning.
by InTheGoodlands May 3, 2015