Frustrated with my learning situation

Why do I have to fill my head with the answers to everyone else’s questions? What about my questions? It’s my brain, shouldn’t I be able to fill it with whatever I want? Why do I have to learn stupid things I don’t care about and will never use and why do they give me tests to make sure I am properly conforming to the ideas of other people? Why do we all have to know the same things?  I want to learn things for myself and form my own opinions and know from experience. Why can’t learning be like this?

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Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

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[In society] you trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel and in exchange, put on a mask.
Morrison
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When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. … The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
Jim Morrison
theburiedlife: Life’s Little Instructions. (Given by a 95 year old friend named William Snell) Sing in the shower. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.Watch a sunrise at least once a year.Leave the toilet seat in the down position.Never refuse homemade brownies.Strive for excellence, not perfection.Plant a tree on your birthday.Learn 3 clean jokes.Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full.Compliment 3 people every day.Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.Leave everything a little better than you found it.Keep it simple.Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.Floss your teeth.Ask for a raise when you think you’ve earned it.Overtip breakfast waitresses.Be forgiving of yourself and others.Say, “Thank you” a lot.Say, “Please” a lot.Avoid negative people.Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yards.Wear polished shoes.Remember other people’s birthdays.Commit yourself to constant improvement.Carry jumper cables in your truck.Have a firm handshake.Send lots of Valentine cards.Sign them, “Someone who thinks you’re terrific.”Look people in the eye.Be the first to say hello.Use the good silver.Return all things you borrow.Make new friends, but cherish the old ones.Keep a few secrets.Sing in a choir.Plant flowers every spring.Have a dog. <Or cat :)>Always accept an outstretched hand.Stop blaming others.Take responsibility for every area of your life.Wave at kids on school busses.Be there when people need you.Feed a stranger’s expired parking meter.Don’t expect life to be fair.Never underestimate the power of love.Drink champagne for no reason at all.Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.Don’t be afraid to say, “I made a mistake.”Don’t be afraid to say, “I don’t know.”Compliment even small improvements.Keep your promises no matter what.Marry for love.Rekindle old friendships.Count your blessings.Call your mother. by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

theburiedlife:

Life’s Little Instructions. (Given by a 95 year old friend named William Snell)

Sing in the shower.

Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
Leave the toilet seat in the down position.
Never refuse homemade brownies.
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
Plant a tree on your birthday.
Learn 3 clean jokes.
Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full.
Compliment 3 people every day.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
Leave everything a little better than you found it.
Keep it simple.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Floss your teeth.
Ask for a raise when you think you’ve earned it.
Overtip breakfast waitresses.
Be forgiving of yourself and others.
Say, “Thank you” a lot.
Say, “Please” a lot.
Avoid negative people.
Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yards.
Wear polished shoes.
Remember other people’s birthdays.
Commit yourself to constant improvement.
Carry jumper cables in your truck.
Have a firm handshake.
Send lots of Valentine cards.
Sign them, “Someone who thinks you’re terrific.”
Look people in the eye.
Be the first to say hello.
Use the good silver.
Return all things you borrow.
Make new friends, but cherish the old ones.
Keep a few secrets.
Sing in a choir.
Plant flowers every spring.
Have a dog. <Or cat :)>
Always accept an outstretched hand.
Stop blaming others.
Take responsibility for every area of your life.
Wave at kids on school busses.
Be there when people need you.
Feed a stranger’s expired parking meter.
Don’t expect life to be fair.
Never underestimate the power of love.
Drink champagne for no reason at all.
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Don’t be afraid to say, “I made a mistake.”
Don’t be afraid to say, “I don’t know.”
Compliment even small improvements.
Keep your promises no matter what.
Marry for love.
Rekindle old friendships.
Count your blessings.
Call your mother.

by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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ebonyeyes1984:

School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic…then teach you reading, writing, arithmetic again. Then again, then again, just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy. And that’s where I think they messed up. There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education. No, REAL sex education class, not just pictures and illogical terms…There should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there not, their class is on…gym….Their class is like Algebra. we have yet to go a store and said, “Can I have X Y + 2 and give me my Y change back, thank you.” You know?…Like foreign languages. I think that they are important, but I don’t think it should be required. Actually, they should be teaching you English, and then teach you how to understand double talk, politician’s double talk. Not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and GERMAN. When am I going to Germany? I can’t afford to pay my rent in America! How am I going to Germany?

—Tupac, Age 17 On the Topic of Education, 1988.

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With a wooden panel, nails, and one single piece of thread Kumi Yamashita made amazingly realistic portraits. View high resolution

With a wooden panel, nails, and one single piece of thread Kumi Yamashita made amazingly realistic portraits.

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Glowing Underground Village Pays Tribute to Buried Communities

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