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Friday, October 22, 2004

school is (mostly) useless

right? whatever we are learning now probably wouldn't be used in our lives 99.99999% of the time. so let's round that up, it probably wouldn't be used in our lives all the time.

unless you want to be a teacher.
or a geologist.
or a biologist.
or maybe the the greatest physicist of all time.
if your dream profession includes one or more of the above, then i congratulate you in your quest to memorise every single thing you've learnt in school and hope that it would come in useful in the future.

but that's abnormal. normal people like myself would want a normal job and live a normal life (yes, i consider myself normal). we wouldn't want to be in a classroom filled with adolescent retards squealing their heads off while we attempt to teach them something we learnt 30 years ago. I wouldn't want to be in the deserts studying rocks in the frying heat. I wouldn't want to allow my brain to expand to twice it's normal size by stuffing quantum physics theories into it then trying it out to see if the theories actually work.

most 'normal' people would probably prefer 'normal' jobs ('normal' because some people may feel that 'normal' is not exactly normal), like
manager
fast food operator
mechanic
ceo of multi-national company
soccer player
security guard
shop owner
social escort
professional fellatio receiver
see? none of the above 'normal' jobs would require any skills learnt in school.

i'm pretty sure a security guard will not need to know differentiation. heck, ceos do not even need to know how to read a graph; it's the damn secretary's job to translate unreadable things into readable things. a soccer player will not be asked to find out the pH of the soil. a social escort may need to be able to identify certain body parts, however.

see? we do not have subjects teaching us about any of these things. things we learn is going to become useless to us. it's just a damn mighty waste of time learning complex maths skills when the most we probably would be doing is finding out how much interest the bank is going to pay for your deposit. then again, that's the bank clerk's job.

don't believe me? go ask your parents how much of their school stuff they can actually remember and use. most likely it's close to nothing. that is unless your parents are teachers, geologists, biologists or physicists.

but if you do badly in school, you would not be able to get a good job. why? because people look for qualifications when employing you. let's imagine you are with another guy applying for a job in some company. the guy is a university graduate while you are a secondary school drop-out. although you are 10 times more capable and suitable for the job, the boss decides to employ the other guy. why? just because he is better 'qualified'.

so, as useless as school and exams and qualifications are, i still need to have them in order to get a good job, drive a bmw convertible and fuck my hot 17-year-old seceraty, just like HIM. maybe not the last part.

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