School

   

    "I never said I hated learning, I hate school," Is usually the direct response after some teen is asked his/her opinion on school. It is true, almost all humans love learning. We've come here today because we asked question, we adventured, we explored. It's the best way to learn. So why don't we just have field trips everyday and no homework? Then kids will love school and there would be no problem!

    It isn't viable. Field trips every day? Please. Much more work would have to go into lesson plans and it just wouldn't always work. How do you teach integral calculus in a fun way? It doesn't work like that unless you find math fun. And let's be honest, if stuff wasn't taught to us the way it is, it would never get taught. I assure you I would never learn English, Chemistry, or advanced Maths without school. Sure, I would learn cool facts about them, but never how to really apply or understand them.

    Second is money. Making all science lessons experiments and all English lessons in video-game format is expensive. And would that really stick either? Straight teaching actually works, because with tests you have to study, and the general ideas will stick when you leave the class. With this kind of teaching, life lessons are taught. So stop whining. We know when you say you don't like school but you like learning, you are just being lazy.