WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR?

Like seriously 🤔 What is school for?!

Feel free to call me whatever, but many people like you and I spent over ten or sixteen years to go to school and for me I still don't know. Many of us finish school, we do not even know how to do our own taxes, purchase a home or apply for a loan. We do not even know a thing about investments, building credit or getting a job. Many graduate at the top of their classes, some were average performers and what do they have? Fancy Degrees or diplomas just to sit at home with their parents or struggling on the streets. But luckily enough in school they did teach us some important skills like: the factoring trinomials and how mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. I'm so happy I can still remember the Pythagorean theorem cause it helped me a lot. Okay that's a lie let me stop.

Because all the stuff they taught us truthfully we've already forgotten - I know you can still remember when your parents used to ask you: " what did you learn in school today", obviously the reply would be " not that much" not just trying to be a modest, the truth about it is that we've already FORGOTTEN! Up until now millions of students sing the same song. How many of you guys used to avoid eye contact with a teacher to try not to get called upon? Afraid to raise your hands for fear of being wrong, which proves that school isn't an environment for learning or building up the intellect. It's a game you just play for grades and how many A's you can collect. But I guess what do you expect when the most commonly asked question in class is: " is this going to be on the test?" Huh.

See if school put learning first instead of test and memorizing as the top standard, then the letter F would not stand for FAILURE. It'd stand for FIND ANOTHER ANSWER! And if school was really interested in our personal and academic success, learners or students would wake up later have more freedom and homework a lot less. And that's not my opinion, this conclusion had been scientifically tested and proven. And any teacher that doesn't believe feel free to check out these work cited pages to inspect. Oh- some where it's done in an LMA format because they know that all you will accept. Like some say: students will get more benefits from an extra hour of sleep than putting them through the torture of an extra essay, reading over 150 pages, doing problems 1 to 60 on the worksheet, and having 3 projects due by the end of the week. Not only is it a pointless pain but it's also dim-witted. Cause we get so much work, but they don't teach you the time management skills to deal with it. See in school we are controlled by bells, we have to learn in rooms with the feng shui of a prison cell.

We have to ask permission to relieve bodily functions but not before the teacher asks a million questions like: " why didn't you go before class?" I'm sorry - my bladder is kinda on its own schedule and it's not always timely. See teachers always say: " use your time wisely" but... that never made sense to me. Cause this over six or eight hours of our lives we call SCHOOL might literally be the worst use of time management ever in history. Think about it: the traditional teaching method is foolish - it's USELESS multiply by the square root of STUPID. What they do is they cram information in your head, force-feeding you and then you throw it up on the test. That's not EDUCATION, that's BULIMIA. And the more bulimic you are, the better you will do in thier assessments, so it's no wonder why many students graduate mentally and emotionally anorexic. See school teaches you how to memorize dots. True Education should teach you how to connect them, true Education teaches you how to catch a fish. School teaches you: " Oh yes, you caught the fish but you didn't show your work, so it doesn't count. Throw it back!".

I'm just asking WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR? It's not Education - that's just not true. If you still think that, you might be sniffing glue. The word EDUCATION comes from the Latin root " Educe" meaning to drow forth or bring out - bring out i.e. bring the gifts out of a person and make them viable. But school doesn't bring out much, it just stuffs more facts inside of you. Now some of that stuff is justifiable. We need reading, writing and some arithmetic that's fair! But are you telling me metamorphic and igneous rocks are more important than self-care?! If suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death of ages 10-24 and Harvard studies suggest the biggest predictor for success is self-control and emotional health, then why the heck aren't we taught how to handle stress, bullies or rejection. How about anxiety or depression?! You know- skills we need for our entire lives?! Like I don't even know how to cook but I'm honestly surprised I'm still alive. But hey, at least I can mention all the names of our Presidents since we gained independence from the Britts. Seriously what is school for? Some say you need it to be successful and that's something we cannot doubt, but do you own a Mac Book or an iPhone? Did you know they both were created by a dropout?! You ever watched videos on Facebook or YouTube it doesn't matter what you chose - they both were created by dropouts! How about WhatsApp or Snapchat? Well thank a dropout! Some people have home furnitures from IKEA, okay don't get the wrong idea - he wasn't a dropout don't be a fool like seriously how could he dropout?! Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA never even went to school. He just picking and choosing millions of people who didn't go to school that aren't successful?  and you're right.

But open your history books and start perusing, you'll find that many people that are idolize in school never really had formal and or Secondary schooling, good examples: America's Best presidents like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison etc they had zero schooling between them. I'm not saying that you dropout - cause some schools are great and many teachers are rare treasures. I'm saying there's a difference between people who are SMART and people who SCORE better. Your future is something that no TEST will ever measure. Even if that test begins in 3 letters like SAT, ACT or BS as they say those determines your LIFE. No, your destiny is in your hands. You must shape it to be great, so don't expect school to OPEN doors cause it's more likely to SLAM them in your face. Sometimes I wonder about all the dreams LOST in school and how much potential goes to waste. If it wasn't for writing, training my self to reprogram my mindset about life, real estate business plan then I would be another lost case.

Everybody reading this please: close your eyes and imagine a child sitting in the back of some teacher's class some where in some town. He never raises his hands; he fails most of his classes. But inside of him their is a passion and if nurtured and brought out will lead him to discover the cure for cancer or HIV/AIDS. But you see, I'm afraid that child's gift will never come out. He will never win the Nobel prize award because in class he was ignored and his worth was judged only by his scores. So teachers, principals, advisors, parents, stakeholders and students I ask one more time: " WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR?"

Big shout to my boy Prince EA. Stay woke my brother and sisters - if not they'll blindside you!