MEDIOCRE EDUCATION SYSTEM

Going to school has always felt like going to WAR. Well, that's before I joined campus(my little heaven on earth).

I grew up knowing that going to school is meant to mould me into a doctor or lawyer. Some great professional with all the right skills to rise through the ranks in the corporate world. The math and all other subjects that gave me headaches trying to master as well as the constant fear of getting whipped if I failed...school sucked. So when Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" came out, I realised I didn't wanna spend all my life in some office or single building doing the same thing every other day. I wanted to be an artist.

Pursuing a degree and successful white-collar job is viewed in many societies as the only way to dominate the world or atleast survive on the planet. Students are expected to focus on targets set by themselves, their parents, and school teachers. Exams that are set only measure our ability to come up with a single solution to a problem. This rule is drilled into us all over childhood so when we finally graduate, we only have little to no idea on how to stand out and solve an issue in multiple ways.

Entrepreneurship gets introduced in the curriculum after highschool, after mastering convergent reasoning. Seriously. It becomes mandatory to unlearn and practice divergent thinking which is required in creativity. Doesn't anyone else see anything wrong with this? The system is messed up!! It's just so wrong and a great waste of time.

Besides, with the rate at which everything is diversifying and technology is advancing, we can't really be certain how things will be 20 years from now. Where's the sense in arming ourselves with such a limited portion of education like math or chemistry or ecology when creativity is just as important a part of education?

The ones being taught are the ones being prepared for the unknown future so when parents, lecturers and teachers insist on creating these limits, they are actually putting the future of this generation at risk. In 20 years, with a degree and perhaps even a PhD, one may be find oneself stranded simply because of poor creativity and high levels of unemployment.

I totally believe exploiting all our abilities is the best way to experience life as well as prepare for the future. I mean, I admire amazing artists with academic intellect as well as corporate giants with other creative interests and skills too.