So a few weeks ago I started the first term of this year. Yeah, I've loads of things to do and I haven't even started. But that's not the problem, it's actually something else...
I found myself having to stay in a classroom, again. That was not the issue at all, but the teacher was. Partly because, as everyone assumes, the words that came out of his mouth where full of boredom, which is "completely normal"; however I was upset because of how he was teaching us, students. You see, I took a class with him last year and tried to give the best of me, even if I didn't agree with his way of making us "learn". I used quotation marks whitin the word learn given that he wasn't making things better for us. We weren't learning, we were just writing -textually- what he told us and then memorized it to do well in our exams. And that my friends, I don't believe is learning. I think that's not like it. Learning is being able to understand, to reason for yourself.
Back on track, I thought this year might be different, but how could I be so stupid to buy that bullshit?
The subject my professor's currently teaching us is Politics; which it can be fascinating, to say the least; not with him before our class, though. I get that in every subject you first need to know the theory to understand the practic part. However, I don't see how this can apply to Politics when all he does is to dictate us useless definitions from a square-minded textbook. Hell, I wouldn't even bother to write things down, I'd just photocopy them if I could, after all, he just reads his own notes outloud and our "deed" is to hold onto them. Hate to break it to you: I'm sorry but that's not happening.
So all of this made me wonder... why would someone want to teach like that? I mean, if you consider that a lesson, please, I'd rather I stood up and went to the front myself. Unfortunately -and luckily for my shyness- that can't be possible. How do we make things better then? I've no fucking idea. Although relating your subject with important nowadays matters is definitely a start. Awaken our interest for knowledge!
We all are lazy sometimes, but don't let that lazyness beat you and make an ignorant out of you. Standing up for our beliefs is a way of doing the latter and growing up. We're suppossed to be the "next-great-generation" but how are we gonna reach this if we aren't properly educated? And more importantly, if we don't notice what's better than what's not?
Make a choice. Make a difference. To think or to play dumb. It's up to you...