when did education become a burden?

It becomes a burden since we become dependent on schooling to define our future and overall image of our life. Society becomes obsessed with the idea of 'education = jobs = future'. The plan for our life had been set up since the day we born, to follow what society expects us to do. The idea of 'learning is to enjoy' gradually turns into 'learning is to survive'.

People start to view education is just a tool to help them get a job, not something to enjoys during the process. Most of them learn for their job, not for their desire for knowledge. And education is losing its value of knowledge since people start to use it as a short-term benefit. Once they get what they want, they will abandon it like it has never existed in their life.

Aged 30 after having served my time as an apprentice engineer I suddenly found myself being made redundant and went back to college full time to re-train in computers. I was a complete computer nut and enrolled for 6 different classes in the subject but was told that I [b]had[/b] to substitute one of the classes for a non-computing one.

I chose Environmental Science and discovered for the very first time what a difference a truly inspired tutor could make. Phil Lasan, the head of the environmental dept, lead the classes and was every bit as passionate about his subject as I was mine. And he changed my life for ever, and gave me a passion for learning that has never deserted me.

So few teachers it seems are capable of doing.

Schooling is a bad system.. as you are stuffed with all sorts of information before you need it .. its like you being forced to take all medicines before you fall ill ..

Similarly its like expecting a 6 year old to lift 50 kgs .. when the same can be lifted easily when the person is 15 ..

I am not sure what you consider "fun". When I started school, it was - but until I hit high school , I had various teachers who seemed to like to pick on me for some ungodly reason. With the exception of raising my hand in class to answer a teacher's question during a lesson, or ask a question, I kept to myself and behaved as I should do and my parents instructed me. But I had a fifth grade teacher who wrote down everytime you "spoke out of turn" - and she wrote me up when the person in back of me poked me in my back and whispered something I didn't catch; all I did was turn and say, "What?" She didn't catch the kid who did the whispering, but she targeted me.

In the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, most of the teachers conducting a lesson would be going through "the motions", but their minds were elsewhere for certain. I had a teacher who spaced out during the recitation of a history lesson. I was going along when I saw the teacher close her eyes and shake her head; I stopped and said, "No?" Then she apologized for it and the lesson resumed. The thing is, she DID it. I never figured out where he mind was that day, but she never did it again.

School's been changed in many years. In the United States it is a broken system. What's the point of buying new update books that won't help you much? Universities and colleges is just a monopoly. The government's most important system and shoving propagandas in most classes. You spend that much money just to create a reputation when you can actually get one from online when they're cheap and some are free

It depends on what kind of a teacher you get and whether he or she makes your life miserable or not. I had fun in kindergarten, then got accused of something in first grade and got punished (unjustly) for it. I hated her for the rest of the year. Second and third were okay, then our class jumped from 3rd to 5th, I ended up with the crabbiest teacher in creation. She picked on me for everything imaginable, and her favorite phrase was, "How you got to fifth grade, I'll never know!"

Oh, how I longed to tell that old bat, "By double promotion." But I had the feeling such an answer wouldn't be welcome, so I never did.

About the time when it became rote memorization and forced. Most schools won't teach actual life skills anymore, instead going over broad concepts that may or may not apply to the student's life. Is the history of the Soviet's Union economy interesting? Yes. Is talking about obscure authors neat? Of course. Are they necessary for everyday life? No.

Kids have always celebrated recess, holidays, closures, and the end of the school year.

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I like school.
I Just hate the people there.

It's because of the obligation to do so and the pressure to perform at it. You aren't learning out of interest, you are being coerced to do so. That tends to build resentment and rebellion over time.

I'm not sure most people think school is supposed to be fun. It is hard work to do well in school so I think most people just want to get through it.

I didn't enjoy being harassed for being at school for the learning, but I always loved school, and I even learned from poor teachers, but I have been a voracious learner.

no, its still about the old factory-worker model and sobriety and duty...

not fun

Since your interests lies else where and you're forced to do so against your will...

It’s not supposed to be “fun” necessarily, it has a serious purpose. But it’s not supposed to be the worst time of one’s life, either. Unfortunately, the human element comes into play, and bullies, both in the classroom (behind the desk) and on the schoolyard can change one’s life and outlook as much as any curriculum. 😒