Aki's assesment of modern education with a little help from his comrade Albert Einstein
Mr. Einstein once said, “The most important motive for work in the school and in life is the pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.” If this were true, as I believe it is, Scarsdale high school does not deserve to be acknowledged as one of the top-level high school in the U.S. I know absolutely no one in our school who finds pleasure in the academic activity they’re engaged in, and this applies to me as well. The only reason I do work is because I do not want to upset my parents, which is clearly not the right reason. But my parents are drastically polluted by the universal yet untrue sense that academic performance defines the true value of human being, which to be honest disturbs me strongly. So for now, I choose to obey them only in the most tentative sense.
From my view, school causes not only fatigue, but also, I dare say, that it also causes indolence as well. When information is provided as boughten material, it hardly fulfills my intellectual satisfaction. I look for ways to avoid such ineffectual fruitless work, and in most of the case this is sleeping, because sleeping is one of the only few things that tranquilizes me in both physical and mental means. If there is no such pointless work, I guarantee that I’d be thirsty for knowledge and spend my time studying where my true interests belong. Since I say such thing, it is evident that education nowadays is not accomplishing its duty. It was even better in England in the 18th century because apparently people studied literature, picture and music in the way they genuinely wanted to. Although the true purpose of education is to arouse the most honest curiosity and provide accurate and unbiased information for a new intellectual generation, modern purpose of American education today seems to be having success in financial ends. This causes competition. Now what does competition do to us students? Mr. Einstein once again clearly states that competitive spirit, “destroying all feelings of human fraternity and cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear of rejection.” How true.
In conclusion, school is not only failing to accomplish its primary duty, but is also being significantly corruptive to our youth. I assess the validity of such organization while I do not plan to abandon it. So basically this is only a immature complaint from a lazy-ass teenager and thanks for reading and wasting your time. Holy cow! it’s already 10:30 I haven’t done any work yet.
Ultimate conclusion: DIE SCHOOL, DIE