when did education become a burden?

Learning is something to be valued and enjoyed yet I feel like at some point in my life I just learned to dread school. Was it something I learned from friends or siblings or the media? School is supposed to be fun, right?

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SW-User

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.

Stilltryinghard

@SW-User Here's what I remember from school (and preparation 4 work was the last thing I ever got)

Little snatches of memory just like in the rest of life. The little memory snatches pointed out the absurdity and poignancy and stress and the inevitably-feeling of being in school. And some amazing pieces in choir too.

I never learned anything until I was close to old age.

SW-User

@Stilltryinghard Sadly, this is what most students nowadays feel.

Stilltryinghard

@SW-User I also remember with oversized poignancy two specific teachers who knew stuff and wanted to communicate it. And can't find anyone who was in those classes, don't wanna remember who they were and none of them ever looked 4 me either...

Too much competition prevented real friendships there.

lka2802 · 26-30, F

@SW-User "learning is to survive"..really well-put. The sad reality of our time.