The monotony of daily routine
I was reading Melanie's post from last tuesday, and it got me thinking more about this world I'm living in. I realized that so much of the world was scheduled. Every weekday for a lot of people, its sleep, school, sport, procrastinate(im/facebook), homework, sleep. Rinse and repeat. every day. for 180ish odd days of the year. Almost half of our young life consists of repeating the same bland schedule for days at a time. In most jobs, its work from like 9-5 every day, come home, eat dinner/deal with kids, sleep, repeat. Life has become overly structured and rigid. Schedules hinder us in our pursuits of knowledge, or at least those of us who like to work in less restrictive environments. For some people, this method of rigid monotony works great and makes them work better and more than they would/could otherwise. I know, though, that a lot of people hate this monotony, and would do much better if it was structured differently and allowed more freedom. A big reason why a lot of people love Ms. Creed and Crawford's classes is due to the discussions, in which we are granted much more of a freedom than we are in other classes. Band has much more freedoms as well, and Music Tech, and both classes are in general loved. Strict, rigid classes, such as Math, Chem and Gov(somewhat) aren't as liked by people. One teacher told me that back in the old times, around the 70s, classes were given a packet to work on for the week, and were allowed to do whatever they wanted, to a degree, and just turn in the packet at the end of the week. They said this is kinda what college is like. I'm not sure when the teaching went on, but this seemed so appealing to me. One thing that might restrict this is the standardized testing, which teachers need to teach there students the information on, or suffer consequences to themselves and the school. This makes some teachers "teach to the test", not really having us get interested in the subject, merely cramming down our throats all that we need to know for the test. We don't go off and examine other, more interesting topic or aspect of the same topic. THIS SUCKS. I want to learn, but i want to learn stuff that seems interesting, not just bland formulas and government positions/eras. It seems to me that a big part of this is the innate human desire for freedom. If something is being denied to you, commonly this is what you want the most.