This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
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I wonder why they hated school. Maybe the problem was the school and not the topic? Otherwise I feel sad for them disliking the topic they chose as a career path :(
I feel like there's so much interesting stuff out there, there must be something useful that they find at least interesting.
Educational institutions are mostly there either to make money or as a public necessity that the rich underfund to have a malleable electorate. The institutions are therefor often understaffed, incompletely equipped, or spending money on things of no benefit to education. The majority of lecturers are thus often quite underpaid, overworked, and unmotivated, which leads to many students being unimpressed.
There are very few institutions and staff that really can show up to work with a smile and be satisfied with their employment.
It's at times baffling and yet understandable why people do not vote for people or parties that want to treat education as a priority. They are a product of the influence of the rich and powerful on our institutions. That this dude is unsatisfied is no surprise to me.
Dang, I did not have the same experience in education! I'm thankful that the situation seems less dire where I'm from. Professors are quite well paid, definitely upper class; while tuition costs are less than 1k€ per year (with financial help available). As they are public institutions, Universities in Belgium do lack funds and their equipment/infrastructure is sometimes in a worse state than American or UK Unis. But still not too shabby!
Do they not do the Iron Ring ceremony?
They might not be American - I don't think anywhere else does the iron ring thing....
At my university in the US it was optional and cost money. I was broke so I just didn’t do it. It was also framed as a Canadian thing we were starting to offer
Good job anon. Now take a long break and get back to it when you have your long term goals sorted.
Imagine being privileged enough to take a long break and have long term goals.
Oh yeah, it's an absolute thrill to crash on your friends couches and work menial jobs to buy weed.
Sure he can jump right into the workforce but the guy said he feels like getting released from prison. I'm suggesting he just bum around for a bit.
Til 22-year-olds have long term goals
That's what the long break is for.
Yes, schools are prisons. Their purpose is not education at all but rather indoctrination, filtering, privilege, control, etc.
Are you struggling with your maths homework, sweetpie?
As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.