~spyderraver

I was deviating with ~3rdtech a few months ago and writing about the lack of compatibility in American school systems, why standardization limits a student in the end, and why this is also a little socialist. These last few semesters have been a test on how to tolerate just that. Don’t get me wrong: I want everyone to remember that education is the result of one’s hard work through lecture. But with time, the concept of a lecture has certainly ‘evolved.’ In Miami, you’ll get teachers who encourage students to reflect on a professor’s thoughts or commentary about a work, and with that, you’ll get people who like to relate the course material to a story about their own personal lives. Teachers will surprisingly only smile and encourage these stupid asides. Let it be known that I don’t give a shit about someone’s trip to Venice or hearing about a West Palm Beach fortune teller, and this is not what I went to class for – wasting others’ time by saying these things aloud is wrong.

As a prime example, this is something I want to call an ‘unendurable instance.’ I first wonder about why someone would want to make private events a public matter to begin with, and as a result, I become disturbed. Most of the time, this type of remark has little relevance to the material anyway. So why is there a need to comment in the first place? I’m captivated by why a person would want to vocalize their campfire tales to another classmate. Who really gives a shit? That’s why it’s impossible for people who exercise this mentality to be critical thinkers in the long run: they’ve proven to rely over and over again on this oddball approach, misunderstanding what it really means to achieve a standard through literary reflection. In other words, it’s easy to see how stupid people give intellectual homogeny a reason to exist.

The most important way to show a teacher that you understand and are responsive to course material is by doing well on the essays or tests. In the real world, people don’t expose themselves to understand a Renaissance text.