It probably does not make a difference between a really fulfilling school life, and a life in which you walk through with your eyes closed, but it still makes a difference anyway and that's how you sustain yourself through the dreariness of homework and a 5-days-a-week-life.
Then again I think school definitely does not constitute the whole of our lives. That would be very sad indeed. Each time you get A for your test would be like, erm, having a kid or setting up a new company. Also, feeling bored in a lesson would be like a blank stretch of depressing boredom in your life, like being retrenched.
Never mind with all the weird examples.
But I think that as good as education may become, it can never beat, say, a one-to-one talk with a person you trust enough with your future. That person can be your teacher or a friend or a family member or a whoever you pick up from a chance meeting, just as long as you trust him/her. Because I think that most of the time, school is full of stereotypes. GEP kids are smart and loud and witty. Science stream students are (erm) hardworking to the point of some being overachievers. Arts stream students party all day.
(Pardon me for the stereotypes D: anyway, they are stereotypes)
So people try to tailor the systems to these stereotypes and leave out others in the process. I mean, the differences between students of different streams are not that distinct right?
It's like being at a restaurant where they sort out the good beef and the bad beef. Then from the good beef they pick out the whole-grain-fed ones and the grass-fed-ones and whatever and treat them accordingly.
But I'm not trying to start a revolution or anything. Heheh.
I'm just trying to say that school is not the only avenue of learning (yay, John Holt!) and that we must find other ways to learn and fill ourselves up.
After all, we don't want to graduate only knowing the differences between an AC motor and a DC motor and how our stomachs digest food.
teehee!
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