Far before and after school [I Am a Believer In Education]

I personally dropped out of school at age 13, due to circumstances outside of my control at the time. However I continued to educate myself as best I could and continue to do so, and will always. I have several writing-books dedicated to various subjects.

I also hold the belief that learning should be much more ingrained into the everyday lives of children and adults alike, but especially when it comes to children it is structured where a child does nearly all of their learning within school walls, and it is seen as a reward to finish and get to go home and play, etc (Even homework is being phased out)
Instead, I wish people would realize learning is and should be an all day, everyday thing. I don't mean strictly book wise, as all things must be within moderation, but learning can be done in numerous ways.

I do happen to also think children of today are held to far, far lower expectations than they shouls be, but even then we shouldn't expect people to learn in the same ways.

Overall I take my personal education seriously though I have received no formal education passed middle school, and have no desire to change that.
I do wish I could find suitable teachers in certain sacred subjects I cannot learn on my own.

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33person · 26-30, M

I completely, completely agree with you on this... for this part of the world. In many African and Asian countries, young students are held to very high expectations, and homework there is far from being phased out. But I fully agree with you that education should not stop when the bell rings. Also, as someone who teaches lower-level math courses in college, I know that many students have not had enough practice with almost any of their math skills, so that either means they weren't given enough homework or they didn't do the homework they were given, or both.

Honestly, reading a great variety of books and watching documentaries and educational movies can be an excellent way to learn informally. In fact, it can be the most important part of anyone's education.

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AKLRising · 31-35, F

@33person Thank you kindly

33person · 26-30, M

@AKLRising I want to clarify something I said about Africa and Asia. I did not mean that their education systems are good. I meant that they have the opposite problem of having excessive expectations or, to be more honest, infinite expectations, of their students. That makes the students feel they can never be adequate. So, if they feel inadequate no matter what they do, that's no way to inspire them to have any interest in learning. I don't think I made that point adequately before.

AKLRising · 31-35, F

@33person Oh, thank you for clarifying. I wasn't aware of that, so I'm glad to know.
And I agree, positive encouragement and setting achievable goals is important, aswell as igniting interest and a desire to learn and put in the effort.

SW-User

You do come across as very intelligent on here. I dropped out at 15 because I was being bullied and I kept getting into fights all the time with them. I couldn’t cope with stress from exams and I was in hospital for weeks too. I was homeschooled which I hated and I hardly learnt anything. I went to college when I was 17 I didn’t learn much there either.

AKLRising · 31-35, F

@SW-User Thank you kindly.
I also dropped out due to bullying, I was being abused at home and school so the stress was immense.
I am sorry you went through all that, I'm glad you fought with the bullies though, and defended yourself.
You also seem intelligent and we are proof that intelligence and knowledge doesn't have to come from institutionalized learning :)

ABCDEF7 · M

Which subjects you are learning

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AKLRising · 31-35, F

@ABCDEF7 I prefer to do most of my writing by hand actually, nothing compares to a fountain pen and quality paper. However I do have my book projects on my devices, to preserve the energy of my hands.
I taught myself to become ambidextrous so I could do more writing, divided between both hands.

ABCDEF7 · M

@AKLRising That's good. Best Wishes 🙂

AKLRising · 31-35, F

@ABCDEF7 Thank you kindly, to you aswell

mainvane · 61-69, M

Interesting post and thinking

AKLRising · 31-35, F

@mainvane Indeed

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