7 Reasons Why Schools Are Not Needed In Our Days

[Anonymous]

First of all, I'm going to ask these questions. What have you actually learned from school? And, among those things you learned there, which actually came helpful, later in your life?

My personal answer is, only the basic things we learned during the first grades. Apart from those, nothing was helpful.

Anyway, let's examine the reasons why schools are not important.

1) Being book-smart is not important

Being book-smart might help you academically, and help you with your career as well, but it won't help you in more realistic things in your daily life. Urban dictionary here gives some great sentences as examples:

Sure she's book smart, but she can't cook a potato!

A book smart professor was hit by a bus. Brilliant on paper, dull in life.

People who say stuff like Do your homework, so you can succeed in your life make me feel disappointed about humanity. No you don't need a homework in order to succeed, and even get punished if you don't. Just ridiculous. In fact it'll make you school even more.

Also from my personal experience, people who have finished universities and all those awesome things, are often snobbish and less down to earth.

2) Being taught needless stuff

As I said in my prologue, how many of those things we got taught in school, came in handy later? Why on earth someone should learn all those complicated Physics and Math terms? Unless they want to study Physics or Math, I don't see how on earth they'll come in handy if you want to cook a potato or do the laundry.

3) Internet exists

That's why I said in our days on my title. And perhaps this is the most important reason of the present MyTake. Internet is more or less an unlimited library. And most of all a FREE one. You can find anything you want, and you can learn anything you want with just a few clicks. Does a single teacher have the same amount of knowledge? I don't think so.

4) Less Bullying

Well, for many kids school isn't always pleasant because of bullying (which has its roots in bad parenting, usually). Bullying isn't uncommon. If you've been bullied in school then you'll know how hard it was for you, to go there every morning, to meet the kids who were making your school life a living hell.

5) Loss of time for many

Like, why should a kid go there every morning, without his/her will in order to be taught stuff he/she won't need later in his/her life (see #2). And not only. See #5 as well. Being bullied and being taught things you don't like on an almost daily basis? An easy way for someone to be driven insane, at a young age.

6) School won't help you to socialize

If you are the loner type, school won't help you to socialize. You'll just hang around in the corner, far away from the other kids. Many people say Your best friends, are those you met in school. It's definitely far from true.

7) Teaching you how to be a pawn of society

This is something that schools are basically teaching you. Being sent to a school at a young age, and obeying and following orders that you don't even agree with. Have you ever actually met any teachers without the kind of behavior I'm the man/woman who knows everything, and you're not allowed to defy me.? Personally not.

And here's where the "Book-smart" trait comes in. Try to achieve good grades, then go to a university and then kiss your job's boss shoes (I'd say something else here, but it won't be proper.). Congratulations, you are now nothing more than a pawn of society.

I know I will receive lots of hate, from school-freaks and people who accepted to became pawns of society, but no problem go on. Hope you'll open your eyes one day, and realize that school has very VERY little importance, and perhaps you might be a better person if you never went there. And by the way, I should also add I'm not an angry teenager who hates school for whatever reasons. I'll turn 25 this year, and I've realized school taught almost nothing to me apart from the basics.

Just 3 words that sum up this myTake: School is overrated.

[Mustachekitteh]

I hate how schools don't help stupids with mental disorders. They only help the extreme cases that are below average with intelligence. Now if you have a learning disorder but smart as well. You end up too smart for special ED classes but not smart enough for normal classes. Which they teachers don't care and can't meet your needs on that.

Schools are only friendly to the extremely disabled and normal people.

[myTake Owner]

Nice point.

[Waffles731]

Thats why I went to privaate school, the school system paid for it too

[FallOutBoy2001]

I do have to say it also falls apart for highly intelligent kids. It's hell if you have to go through that, you're way too smart to be in the grade you're in but too immature to be on the grade you could work in

[beautifulangel76]

We do need schools but the system needs to be better. I honestly don't need to know the unit circle to become a doctor or whatever. They teach us all these useless math problems when all we need to know is how to divide, add, multiply, and subtract. I think that by high school they should start putting us in classes that have more to do with what we want to do in the future which would really help.

[fueledbythc]

Schools are meant to prevent free thinkers and leaders to rise up from the common population. It's a form of brainwashing

[myTake Owner]

Very good comment, most school-freaks would never understand.

[sixnineanon]

I agree with everything you just wrote. School is pointless.

[meowcow]

You say you have no desire to learn things you won't need. As a child, how do you know exactly what you require in life, considering many people in their 20's still have no clue what career they want?

We are consistently reminded through the large and growing gap between rich and poor that school and education is a vital part of a person's life. Those without education, or the most basic education often find themselves in minimum wage jobs for the better part of their life. I made $250,000 last year, and I doubt I'd be anywhere near that without a high level of education. Of course, some people without a good education succeed, but that's 0.00001% of the population. The remaining 99.9999% with high school education or less, end up going nowhere in life. Don't take Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates as an example, unless you are as accomplished as them.

The internet is a poor substitute for education. Also, where do you think the information comes from? If everyone was unlearned, there would be nobody to build and update the technology which you think is so important. The internet is a great source of information, but there is more garbage and misinformation than useful, accurate information. You wouldn't have any reliable way of confirming whether the information you find is correct. For example, you want to build a shed? Watch a youtube video on how to construct one. Who's to say that person is following the correct safety standards, or whether your shed is built to the local city codes (if it's not, you'll be fined and ordered to remove it).

[myTake Owner]

About wage thing... do you think it's fair those with higher school education (book-smarts), get paid more?

[meowcow]

Yes, because they have skills that are required for high paying jobs that a person with high school education cannot ever hope to achieve.

If you have high school education and flip burgers for a living, lets say you flip 20 burgers per hour. If the restaurant makes a profit of $1 per burger after expenses, overhead and wages, that person only generates $20/hour for the restaurant.

Jobs that require physical technical skills (electrician, plumber, construction worker), or immense liability (lawyers, doctors, engineers) have skills that less than 1% of the population possesses. The value of the work is much greater. Nobody's stupid enough to let a high school graduate build their house or install their home electrical system or be defend them in court, or perform medical surgery on them.

While you can definitely get through life with a high school education or less, that often means living a low income minimalist lifestyle. If that is your choice, then so be it.

[myTake Owner]

I have no idea about flipping burgers and $20 dollars per hour sounds fine. Well they use Euros where I live and I've heard cases about people who get 3-4 Euros per hour which's way less than $20.

[meowcow]

No dumbass, $20/hour for flipping burgers is the profit made. You're not going to get paid $20/hour for flipping burgers. That means the restaurant, which takes on all the risk running a business would earn nothing. A burger flipper generates $20/hour of profit. They get paid minimum wage for their efforts... somewhere in the range of $8/hour. A fair deal since they have no useful skills. Otherwise, they are welcome to quit and try to make a living running their own business and taking on the business risk themselves.

[myTake Owner]

Dumbass? It's not a school here, show some respect.

And $8 per hour is fine for such a job and without having a degree. I know people who earn 4 Euros per hour, which's like around $5... and guess what? Those people have degrees, diplomas and all those shit, dunno how they called, and they ended up in a shitty job because of high unemployment.

[meowcow]

People are not all the same, and a degree is not a GUARANTEE that you'll get a good job. A degree only gives a person the OPPORTUNITY to get a good job.

There are lots of very stupid, socially incompetent people with degrees in whatever subject you want to name. Earning a degree only shows you have the raw intelligence. Many people in their mid-20's with degrees are still afraid of speaking in front of a crowd, or they're too timid or socially awkward. They completely fall apart in a job interview and show no confidence or assertiveness.

Although in a thriving economy, everyone can get a job, even those with degrees who are overall poor quality workers. In a poor economy, employers aren't going to waste their time paying poor quality workers. You either get your shit together, or end up in a minimum wage job.

If you don't think this is true, pretend you're a business owner in a bad economy and ask yourself how long you're willing to keep shitty employees.

[myTake Owner]

Well were I live economy's not thriving... so...

But anyway why should I give a shit? This MyTake is about school flaws.

[myTake Owner]

*where

[bcromartie]

1. Being "book smart" in our day was equivalent to a college education a few centuries ago. The ability to read alone is astounding for most of the population. The ability to count and transact business? Overwhelming! You are not wrong by today's standards but the very fact that you can formulate a sentence is, in and of itself, a result of said "book smarts".

2. It turns out that humans actually use knowledge more of than they realize. Or what I should say is that when you learned that "useless" Calculus you also learned how to look for specific patterns. The more patterns you can look for (and math / logic / scientific method is nothing but looking for, assessing, and managing patterns in events ) the quicker you are in general. It is why philosophy ( essentially the art of thinking ) and mathematics ( the study of patterns ) students are so well versed and able to do many, many things in multiple fields far outside their own including business and technology. Never underestimate the power of knowing something because you may learn to see things differently because of it.

3. Being autodidact is great but it means nothing if you aren't actually exposed to the material. For instance our person who can't "cook a potato" may have never had to before. The internet, and really any media containing information, can only give you so much value since if you've no idea how to cook a potato choosing how to cook the potato to best suite your needs may simply be impossible. This is more apparent with practical labor such as repairing and installing electrical wiring.

4. True.

5. See #1 and #2. Trust me being an adult who cannot read is not the way to go just because you thought it was a waste of time. Teaching yourself to read via the internet is equivalent to literally learning a new language so unless you hunker down it's relatively impossible and that takes far more time than the natural discourse of school exposure.

6. Bullocks.

7. While social order is taught in schools, no doubt, rarely does this result in one being a "pawn". I presume you managed to figure this out on your own without having to endure teaching yourself how to read and having gone to school yourself. The thing about rebellion is that you have to be educated enough to even rebel. The irony of this all is that you can't be both educated and despise the system that educates you enough to be able to disown it.

It is the parent who got the vaccine but refuses to vaccinate!

[myTake Owner]

1) Centuries ago, people were less smarter to begin with.
3) Still cooking a potato is kinda... essential. At least in my opinion. You cannot always eat out, right?
5) Well, personally at least, although I learned how to read in first grades, I learned more things from the internet.

[lumos]

Well I, for one, found my school experience massively useful. Even for the stuff I don't use in my day-to-day life. I want to know how things work, and why they work that way. I want to know how humanity got to this point. It's not always about finding things useful in a practical sense. Sometimes it's just about having and understanding for where we come from (history/geography), what humans are (biology), how things work (math/science/physics/biology) etc. Have I excelled in all of these subjects? Absolutely not. Have I had practical use of all of them in my day-to-day life? Not necessarily. Am I happy that I still learned what I learned? Yes. I value general education. I've always had a personal interest in knowing as much about as many things as possible because it interests me, and it's nice to be able to hold a conversation with someone on a special topic. That doesn't make me a pawn of society. That's me taking responsibility and making use of the things I learn, instead of whining about how unnecessary it is.
I used to be like you once. I also used to whine to my friends about how unnecessary some things in school are and that we'll never make use of any of it. But then I changed my way of thinking and now I make use of the knowledge I have when the opportunity arises (which is fairly often, mind you) instead of throwing my hands in the air and saying "I don't care".
Knowledge is power. A sheeple is a person who has no understanding of their own surroundings, their existence, of how things work. A sheeple is someone who hasn't been taught critical thinking, thinking outside of the box, both of which are taught at schools over and over again, every time a teacher asks you to write an analysis/essay of something.
I know for damn sure that I'd be a dumbass if it wasn't for my education.

[myTake Owner]

Well, personally I have no desire to learn things that won't be needed. So in other words we think differently.

[lumos]

But that's a matter of perspective. It will only not be needed if you don't make use of that knowledge.

[OlderAndWiser]

1. "Being book-smart is not important." If you are sick, do you want to see a doctor who quit school in 7th grade? Do you want an auto mechanic who quit school in 3rd grade?

2. "Being taught needless stuff." Some people think any knowledge they can't use in the next 24 hours is needless. Why should people study history? To learn from our history so we don't repeat our mistakes, so we understand why our society looks as it does today.

3. "Internet exists." Tell kids they don't need to go to school and they will all go home and use the internet to study addition and subtraction, right?

4. "Less Bullying." Yes, bullying is a prpoblem in many schools. The solution is not to close the schools. There are trolls on this site; the solution is not to close the site.

5. "Loss of time for many." In western societies, we believe that school-age children should not be forced to work, so kids have plenty of time for school.

6. "School won't help you to socialize." Maybe that was your experience but I don't think that statement is true for most people.

7. "Teaching you how to be a pawn of society." I think that schools should not indoctrinate kids in political beliefs and this is a problem which needs to be addressed. There are independent thinkers who are products of our education system. I don't know many brilliant people who did not have formal education.

It sounds like you had a bad experience with schools and that is unfortunate. Perhaps the schools you attended share some of the responsibility for that but it is not a reason to condemn the education system en masse.

[myTake Owner]

1) Oh well, I hardly get sick to be honest. But we have a family doctor more or less if something happens, and I always go on him.

2) History can be learned from many sources except school. In school you learn only a small part of it

3) I was like that pretty much.

4) So what do you suggest?

5) Do they want though?

6) Still there are not only a few who don't socialize.

7) My school sucked indeed. They didn't even have a soap in the toilets. Really.

[oddwaffle]

You need to learn basic science and not fail at writing. Math, physics, chemistry and biology are extremely important in not getting cheated. I watched perfectly smart people who didn't get basic education in these fields getting their asses scammed and failed at almost everything.

Without math, you can't run your own business. The basic functions helped me a lot in cooking. What? Math in cooking? Yeah, it have to use it for ratio and creating new recipes.

Physics and chemistry are basic in getting your food right. Again, I run my own business and without a basic understanding I would have to be a genius to figure out a lot of my recipes. People share their home cooking recipes on the internet but never a commercial one. It took me a while to figure out that the same flour will be different depending on the date it is kept in the producers storage tank.

Biology is pretty obvious. You need it to have an idea of how to cook property and not kill people in the process (in accidents).

Finally, knowing how to write property and understand what people are writing will need you to learn a fair bit of language. Ever try to learn a second language? Imagine you only had the internet and have to read technical manuals in a different language.

[myTake Owner]

Math in cooking? Never heard that chefs should have some degree at math as well.

And yeah I get your point about second language, although you can study online if you want. No?

[oddwaffle]

Yeah try it and see. I have my fair share dealing with people who didn't get a highschool education and fail at their English. It's really really hard to learn a second language when you 1st language isn't English. Even if it is, how long will it take for you to learn it? Wouldn't it be better to just take a class and learn faster?

For the cook, if the guy can't do math then you are screwed when you try to fix ratio, measure time and temperature, adjust weight to final product, estimate lost in waste, doing payroll, calculating proft and lost, manage cash flow and finally develop your recipe from home cooking into commercial.

You don't want to hand over the 20k oven to a guy who can not read the manual, has no formal electrical training and has no clue how some simple physics work. I watched that uneducated guy struggled for 2 hours in front of the oven before his college graduate master came and fixed the thing in minutes.

[Anonymous]

"Have you ever actually met any teachers without the kind of behavior I'm the man/woman who knows everything, and you're not allowed to defy me? Personally not."
I'm so sorry. You must have gone to a really shit school.

Y'know, the more I think about this, the angrier I get. And I'm a really easygoing person. Also, this obviously doesn't apply to you, but did you ever think that some people actually like learning something new? Some people have fallen in love with understanding how different degrees of contact and burial metamorphism affect shale, or how companion cells use proton pumps, hydrogen ions and selective carrier proteins to load sucrose into the phloem. It's the rush of understanding how the world around us works and without it, there would be no innovation. So please don't give people like that the two fingered salute, because they're the ones that'll be ending wars, taking care of you when you're old and sick, and solving world hunger, whilst you just sit there and watch, not giving thanks for them or wondering at the complexity of our world, but seeing everything only at face value.

[myTake Owner]

Sounds like you're a bookworm kid.

And no I have no desire to be old. 70 years are enough. Don't want to look like a relic.

[Opinion Owner]

Maybe I am a bookworm, but I just found your take really offensive. I don't understand how someone can just waltz through their life, not even wondering how the world around them works.

So you're just going to pop your head off after you turn 70? I'm not going to stop you or anything, just wondering.

[myTake Owner]

Actually it would be a miracle if I reach 70, honestly. I like to indulge in the sweet things in life... if you know what I mean.

[Opinion Owner]

I can take a guess.

[Redshift]

No offense but this is a 12-year-old's logic. "Where could I possibly need this". I'll tell you where - in the university. Good luck with basic statistics if you were too lazy to learn high-school level math. Same with virtually every other subject. There is a base level EVERYONE should know, regardless of whether they'll use it later in life. High school cannot be adapted to every kid's dream career. Therefore everyone learns the basic level of every science and has a chance too choose to study later on whatever he desires. Not to mention having rich common knowledge can be invaluable. To not study means for every generation to become progressively dumber until we reach "Idiocracy" level of ignorance.

[myTake Owner]

""Where could I possibly need this". I'll tell you where - in the university. "

You know what? University doesn't make you smart.

[Redshift]

And I don't really understand the term "society's pawn". Education is nothing if help in forming your own opinion. Just because there are some assholes doesn't mean you need to be their pawn. Ignorance and lack of understanding of the world around you is what creates puppets. Not knowledge and information.

[Redshift]

Actually it does. Any form of studying makes you just a little bit smarter. Whether you want to learn or just pass the tests and move on is entirely up to you.

[myTake Owner]

Has this been proven?

[Redshift]

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[myTake Owner]

Come again?

[Josht11]

Well I'll continue to be a sheeple, please tell me how your not a pawn, do you have a job, have to pay bills etc.

Anyway education is important because if you can remember and apply the things you learn in lessons like maths/biology and then do well it tells an employer your a hardworker and smarter and a better worker so maybe what you learnt isn't important but it is important to do well. Secondly the better your education the more money you make there's a clear correlation. The information might not always be the important part but how you remember and apply that information shows employers good skills.

[myTake Owner]

Do you understand there's a word called "interest". I have ZERO interest towards math and biology. So to sit and learn those useless stuff (for me and for many others who're not into those) is just PATHETIC.

And education my ass. You are just thinking in a booksmartish way. I feel sorry for your views.

[Anpu23]

Without public education a country falls behind as far as quality of life. Basic skills as far as math, reading, writing, etc are not only necessary for survival they are so required that you don't even know when you use them. Such as reading these words now, do you really think that most parents have the skills patience and time to really teach their children to read? If you don't have basic math skills how would you ever know if you got cheated by the local store? Science how about lethal chemical reactions (leach and chlorine anyone?) Further school teaches critical THINKING, how to reason and make good decisions based on your given set of information. and lastly there is history those who do not know history are bound to repeat it.

[FallOutBoy2001]

He might not know about bleach and chlorine. It causes *wink* anything you pour it on to be instantly clean. No harmful reactions or chemical fumes at all

[Unit1]

100% agreed. High school was a 5-6-days-per-week battlefield for me and I didn't need it. What an inevitable waste of time and torture that was!

We'd only need the universities and colleges but high schools no freaking way!
I graduated school with inner joy because it's all over!

[Unit1]

I saw all them comments and I could not resist posting this.

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Embrace it :)

[myTake Owner]

True that.

[YourMonkeyDoes]

I do not agree with you, school opens up opportunities for you later in life, it helps with socializing (not for everyone, but for most people). And sure, it makes you book smart rather than street smart, but the book smart is what you need if you want to into academics.
Also, everyone is a pawn of society. You can either just accept that, or decide to not be part of it. Either is fine by me, but if you don't want to be part of it I suggest you throw away what society has given you and go live on your own separated from the rest of us.

[myTake Owner]

" but the book smart is what you need if you want to into academics."

Do you REALLY agree with this?

[YourMonkeyDoes]

Yes I do. But instead of just denying that I'm right, give me some arguments please, that creates actual possibillity for conversation.

[myTake Owner]

I will say it in just a few words.

You're totally delusional, and you were that type of student in school who was just chasing grades in order to get a career. Yes you are book-smart and in my opinion that's a really bad thing.

And don't forget to kiss your boss' ass in the job you're gonna get like a good boy eh?

Now block me for saying all those things that you don't want to hear. Or shall I go first?

[electrikrainb0w]

So... being a jerk is easier than having a rhetoric, right? Yeah... no school = less bullies. You're being a bully to someone simply because they have a slightly different view from you EVEN THOUGH they aren't trying to argue. You need to reevaluate what you are doing right now as you are walking straight into contradiction and hypocrisy.

[electrikrainb0w]

Talking to the OP not @YourMonkeyDoes

[myTake Owner]

@electrikrainb0w How am I a bully? Did I grab him and pin him against a wall?

[YourMonkeyDoes]

Hahaha OP you are a funny guy! This time you attack me personally instead of giving actual arguments!
I don't block anyone for not agreeing with me, even if they like to attack me as a person. So I will be right here if you decide to have an actual conversation about this subject, which I doubt to be honest. But I dare you to prove me wrong though!

@electrikrainb0w I figured as much ;)

[myTake Owner]

I can't have a discussion with someone who believes that being booksmart is "OK"

[YourMonkeyDoes]

I think it's such a shame when somebody has an interesting opinion but does not want to elaborate on it because they have some false sense of superiority. If you want you can stick to beating around the bush, but if you want to be taken seriously you should come up with reasons why you have an opinion and not just insult people.

[electrikrainb0w]

Soo.. Real fast, OP. Before I decide how to respond to you. What is your opinion on global warming?

[myTake Owner]

@electrikrainb0w I just don't give a shit about this issue. Never bothered me.

[myTake Owner]

For what I care mostly, is that schools and fucking cops exist.

[YourMonkeyDoes]

Right, because education and law enforcement will destroy the planet but not global warming.
You become more and more interesting by the minute.

[myTake Owner]

And a police fanboy as well eh? Well I'm not surprised actually. Most bookworms like you love police.

Frankly, the ONLY people who love police are either bookwormish nerds or gym freaks. The latter are often security guards as well, who're basically failed cops, and even dumber than the cops who work for the police actually.

Those kind of people plainly disgust me. Now go on wear your big square glasses and study in order to be an "A" student with dozens of degrees. What do you want here in GAG?

[YourMonkeyDoes]

And once again, only personal attacks and no ACTUAL conversation! As much as I find you interesting, I don't think this "conversation" is going anywhere. So good day to you, sir.

[myTake Owner]

Take nice day back please. One thing I hate when I'm having an argument with someone is when they wish me a "nice day" after it's over. Totally hypocritical and fake.

Tell me to fuck off better, because that's what I want to tell you as well but it's against the rules here (well I respect a few guys from the administration team here, and I consider one of them a friend, so I respect their rules!)

[YourMonkeyDoes]

Dude, there is no argument at all! You just make personal attacks and nothing you said had any real value to the subject we were talking about! But unlike you probably want me to be: I'm not mad at you, I just think your way of doing things is very amusing.
So once again, have a nice day and let's never "speak" again.

[Skadouchebag]

First, your internet argument. you do realize how much misinformation there is on the internet, right?

also, as for the "useless" stuff, how early do you think a person actually know what they want to be? If you didn't know the things you had learned in school, how would you be *able* to make that decision?

also, famously, Sarah Palin was a very uneducated woman. she thought that Africa was all one country, or so I've heard.

lastly, when you take people out of school, you get trump supporters.

[myTake Owner]

And books have much misinformation as well.

[Skadouchebag]

not as much as the internet. there's probably a reason teachers let you use books but don't let you use wikipedia

[myTake Owner]

Let me guess... A everywhere eh?

[Skadouchebag]

Huh? you asking about my grades? Oh lord no.

[myTake Owner]

But you sound like such a guy.

[AleDeEurope]

So here you are, complaining about how schools aren't needed anymore, and kids in Africa and Asia walk miles and miles to go to a school with 100 kids per class, almost no books, not enough chairs, not enough teachers...

I hated school, but it is absolutely necessary.

[myTake Owner]

Where it is in your opinion, except for getting grades?

[EllieLexis513]

You must have done poorly in school. I'm a teacher and I can tell you almost everything you listed on here is either not true or is complete nonsense. You don't have any real support. In fact, most of this myTake sounds like a student who resents school and hated having to go.

[myTake Owner]

Hahaha student? We're almost the same age chick. I'm 1-1.5 year younger than you, If you're hot stuff I'd not mind repeating some classes together. Hehe.

[EllieLexis513]

Us being the same age doesn't mean anything. "You must have done poorly in school" and "Hated having to go" are past tense. So I see I was right, you didn't do very well in school. That explains this take a lot. Also, you can be a student at any age. There are people going back to get their GED's in their 40's and 50's.

[myTake Owner]

I have no idea what GED is, since we live in separate countries, but I'd not mind going to a college (well the equivalent of a college where I live, I mean.) for... well you know what. It won't be forced this time, so it'd be just for fun.

[EllieLexis513]

It's the high school diploma version for someone who dropped out and returned to school.

[myTake Owner]

Aha. Well I wasn't a dropout, I finished high-school (actually I wanted to stop at 15, but I was a minor so it wasn't up to me.) and I have a diploma. But it has proven to be as useful as a toilet paper to me.

[myTake Owner]

In fact toilet papers are more useful. I can wipe my ass after I shit with them.

[kavyareddy2]

Tell Malala, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school, that schools are not important.

None of your 'reasons' sound reasonable. Many children don't even get an opportunity to get an education.

#1st World problems

[myTake Owner]

1st world really? Do you have any idea where I live actually? In one of the shittiest countries of the world. I don't want to say where exactly but it's somewhere in the Balkan region. So you can guess more or less what we are talking about.

It's 3rd world in my opinion.

[FallOutBoy2001]

School is not worthless, many people do use things taught to them in school. I'd bet you were the drunk kid in the back of the class, but one of my friend's IS the drunk kid in the back of class and he does so well he got accepted to West Point.

[myTake Owner]

Guess what? If your mother is a teacher and is a friend with many of your teachers, you pass the classes easily without much reading. As it happened in my case.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Well, that shows how little you worked then. The drunk I mentioned doesn't have that going for him, how does it feel to know a drunk guy is doing better than you?

[myTake Owner]

I don't give a shit. Simply.

[FallOutBoy2001]

To be fair people like you don't give a shit.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah because I live a carefree life, unlike some others who live under the constant threat to get fired.

[FallOutBoy2001]

How do you plan on supporting yourself?

[myTake Owner]

I know very well. Don't worry.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I want to know what it is

[myTake Owner]

It's personal.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Ok that makes me think of prostitution, and I don't care if you do that.

[myTake Owner]

Haha no. But think whatever you want.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Yeah no I didn't think you were a prostitute, just threw that out to ask

[nog6422]

"It's personal."

So you're advocating not going to school and not even giving an example of a way you could make money?

[myTake Owner]

@nog642 Why should I share my personal issues here?

[FallOutBoy2001]

So I'm suspecting it's a mental illness/physical disability and you're living of of the government?

[myTake Owner]

No.

But what do you want from me anyway? I see you come and go here continuously.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Because you're pretty stupid and I don't really want to debate with you

[myTake Owner]

Then why you are here?

[FallOutBoy2001]

Because I think you're wrong and I want to show others that your viewpoint isn't a very good one

[nog6422]

You're claiming you don't even need a job to live. Then I'm asking why and you don't want to give an answer because "it's personal". You can't say school is useless because you don't need a job if you can't explain how you're supposed to live without a job.

[myTake Owner]

@nog642 Personally I don't accept being criticized by people who are a decade younger than me. It looks ridiculous.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Then don't say things that will get you criticized by people a decade younger than you

[myTake Owner]

Just learn one thing. School doesn't teach you the truth. Got it?

[FallOutBoy2001]

Im not talking advice from someone who doesn't do anything with his life.

[myTake Owner]

That's your problem. I'm trying to make you avoid being a society pawn.

[FallOutBoy2001]

No thanks. I'd rather be a "society pawn", enjoy my job, make good money, marry the guy (or girl) I love, and be part of society than be some loser who lives with his mom and drinks all day.

[myTake Owner]

I don't live with my mom idiot. Didn't school taught you to read?

[FallOutBoy2001]

"I live on my family home" so it would appear you still live with your mother. Even if you hadn't said that, if you're unemployed and drink, I'd guess you wouldn't be able to pay for rent, cause, y'know, rent costs money

[myTake Owner]

"I live on my family home, and my mother is remarried and she lives in her new home as well. She gives me money every month. I don't have to pay rents and shit because the house I live in is my family home as I said. "

You like school and you don't even know how to read. I dislike school but I know. What they teach you there? I think I was clear saying I live with my mom separately.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Hey, your English isn't the world's best and everyone misunderstands some things.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Also, that was not the message I had based that off of

[Dim_121]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

[Anonymous]

It doesn't seem useful when you're there, but a few years later you'll realize. It teaches you a little responsibility, a little discipline and a little accountability. I mean how would you learn to read, write, do basic math.
Also school does help you socialize, big time. I grew up in rural Kentucky with no neighbors, if it weren't for school I wouldn't have had a single friend.

[myTake Owner]

Doesn't help everyone you should say.

[Opinion Owner]

does*

[myTake Owner]

So you say. Personally it didn't help. Don't judge from yourself and people you know.

[Opinion Owner]

How did it ruin your life?

[myTake Owner]

I lost so much time for nothing. And on top of that I've been bullied as well.

[Anonymous]

So many of your points are incredibly flawed. The way you come across is as a kid who simply is done with school and wants to talk badly about it. Like it or not school is necessary. In the U. S. the education system is screwed up royally, I won't deny that. However, it is important to be educated and intelligent. It takes both book smarts and street smarts to functino in life.

[AssJacket]

People like scientists and engineers don't make that much money comparatively, but make the world go around. It's ironic that you listed the existence of the Internet as one reason why school isn't needed, yet the vast majority of the folks that worked so hard to build the Internet were/are very highly educated.

[nog6422]

Well they don't exactly make minimum wage either...