Comment on "Education is the key"

You know, all I'm saying is, I need to comment 3 ideas from the speech about education while I'm forming part of education while I'm in the lock which is the school which is an educational institution where I do oral presentations and then I do oral presentation self-evaluations, you know!?!

Try to rap this, come on!

When did the oral presentation self-evaluation thing become a running gag?

(...) you know money is only the medium by which one measures worldly success, some of you even have the nerve to say, I don't do it for the money, so what are you studying for? To work for a charity, need more clarity?(...)

Yep, I do have the nerve. At least I don't do it primarily for the money and much less exclusively for the money. Is money only a medium to measure of worldly success? What do you define as success? The other day I was talking to a friend about that topic. When I told him that I was going to go to University next year and do my studies for 4-5 years, he wished me luck and said that he found it funny to follow the process of someone becoming successful. I was a little confused about his way of expressing it ("someone becoming successful") and he was rather surprised because of my reaction. He answered that someone with universitary studies is bound to earn lots of money in the future, hence successful. 

Then I asked myself: is having lots of money really success? If that was true, is Justin Bieber a successful person, an idol to follow? I see real success as achieving something in life. Setting yourself an objective, working hard for it and eventually accomplishing it. So if Justin Bieber set himself the objective to become famous with his music, well, yes, I guess he is kind of successful. But not because of the money. It's because what he wanted to be, what he dreamt of.

And what if someone dreams of having lots of money and that's his objective? Maybe earning lots of money so you can reach other goals, so the money helps you to achieve them. Maybe you want to accumulate a fortune so your children will have an easier life. But the money itself and only the money should never be your goal. Money is just an instrument.

Since I just got shot some picadilly towards my bottom (so many tasks to do, man) and I overdid things with the first idea... Let's hit the gas pedal and try to increase the relation quality/quantity.

Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book on someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam.

Like, +1, #educationisthekey or whatever you prefer, but this, ladies and gentlemen, is the damn truth. This is the major problem I see in our eduaction system. You have to fit in. You have to learn to repeat, you're not asked to learn to learn. Personally, I hate memorising for exams. That's probably why history's one of my less favourite subjects, even though I find it interesting. One of the reasons I enjoy science classes is that you can resolve most of the exercises applying logic. Okay, true, there are formulas that you have to memorise, but as long as they explain how scientists deduced the formula and you know it, the memorising serves only as a time saving factor. We are hardly ever asked to think for ourselves. Now we have philosophy classes, which are tragically interesting. Tragically because, after all, it's still 80% memorising and understanding another one's opinions and thoughts. If you are actually interested and you like "philosophing" by yourself, you will end up reflecting and contrapose your own opinion and the ones of the philosophers. The problem becomes enormous when you do not have an own opinion. And I fear this is a more wide-spread problem than many might believe. I myself felt a little opinionless, thoughtless, when we began philosophy of 2nd  of Batxillerat. Last year there were more debates in class, more exercises that emphasised on our own point of view. This year, from the very beginning, we almost exclusively studied the conception of the authors. My proposal is that the school system should focus way more on individual thinking and creativity, starting from primary school.


I'm just writing comments equally long... This can't be T_T

Looking at David Beckham, there is more than one way in this world to be an educated man.

Or woman :)
It's totally true. A painter can be as intelligent as an astrophysicist as a shopkeeper. This is related to the previous quote. Why do we all have to fit in into the few possibilities that our education system promotes? Being educated is more than knowing school stuff. There is also social intelligence. Creativity. The ability to find practical solutions. Flexibility. These are all qualities of outmost importance to be successful in the real life. And school kills most of them. We feel too comfortable here. We should learn to face our problems.