5 Things They DON'T Teach in School

1. They don't teach how the society works.

• Though teachers may share a bit about how it worked out for them, they are still just a part of the bigger picture of the society where opportunities and risks go hand in hand. Especially in a society like ours, the experience of one is never true to the general. Example: "finding an employment is necessary to survive" is not true to all anymore in this time and age when people can already earn income freelancing online while they are masters of their own time.
2. They don't teach students how to study.

• Correct me if I'm wrong, but studying is defined as 'memorizing' by most people already by memorizing their lessons in order to pass the exams/quizzes/tests presented before them. If the students a decade ago were already memorizing their lessons then the present students can never really learn how to study if the teachers themselves don't know how to themselves. Do you know how to study without memorizing?
3. They don't teach students how to manage or raise money.

• In this day and age, many people are "finally" looking for ways to get an extra income. It seems that they have already opened their eyes to the saying "having a job makes you secure in society" is not true anymore. And because of this, stress levels begin to rise. Why? Because most people do not know anymore how to acquire money/income without getting an employment. Because they depended on what they learned in school and believed the common saying that "if you have a good education then you'll have a good future ahead of you". And school does not really tell you the ABCs and the steps on how to earn money but they teach you how to be an employee.
4. They don't teach students' their talents, creativity and imagination.

• Contrary to traditional beliefs of school giving great talents to it's students due to its instructions, these skills began within the students themselves. However, these talents are never free to run their own accord in its own course and time as it is already molded at such an early stage, trained and limited by instructions and teachers' preference, thus we really will never know the extent of these abilities of students who could have limitless capabilities. Example: Students are only instructed to draw under a certain theme/category set by moderator/s under a specific time. So, does school destroy our imagination and creativity?
5. They don't teach students where they will be 10 or 20 years from now.

• Of course not, because the school is not a seer or a magician. But that is not what I meant. Have you ever asked yourself, when you were still in school, what and where would you be in 10 or 20 years time? I know I have. And I had thought that I would be employed in a very rich company yet that made me feel so sad and I wondered why. And it's only now that I realized that it's because I will never really live my life different from others, who will graduate and get a job. Yet, we have different rankings from one to the other based on how we did well in school; but that is not a permanent basis for a person's way of living.

Why is it a need to go to school?

I know my title is my way of whining. But "what is school supposed to be?"
"What does the school teaches that studying by yourself cannot give?"
Why do I go to school? So far from twenty years of going to school, I would say, 'I still am going to school to get my diploma.' I guess you could say, I'm tired of going to school. But it is a must for me to go because I need to learn what I must in my field. That's only during college where subjects are, at least, more focused to ones chosen profession. In high school and below, subjects are generalized from minor to major subjects. Students even take up subjects without any relevance to their chosen career path. (Poor kids and thank you, God, I'm done with them.)
But what does the school educate it's students? (Most of the time...to memorize?)
From what I know, school is supposed to be a place where knowledge are passed to the students or the younger generation. It is supposed to be a place where the youth acquire the knowledge and discoveries of the previous generations and acquire the skills they need for their chosen careers. But why is it students are, most of the time than not, forced to memorize their notes or what the teachers "teaches" them. The purpose of acquiring knowledge is now destroyed by this method of 'studying', if studying means memorizing.
I know how to memorize, thank you, but I don't know how to study. And I almost forgot the purpose of it since I only memorized its meaning. If I were to ask you, do you know how to study? Would you be able to answer without giving me the process of memorization?

Lately, I've come to know the term mnemonic. It is a technique people uses to remember things from names and faces to words spoken by people talking in front of them. It was discovered centuries ago, used by famous people, and yet only few remembers how to use it nowadays. It was then that I discovered how futile it was for teachers 'teaching' their students to study when they themselves only know how to memorize. What's my basis for this? I asked one of my teachers how he remembers the things listed in the book and his answer made the cold hands of dread creep up on my spine during that time, "I just memorize them. And you should too since it'll be showing up in the quiz next meeting". And I never even got half of them right despite I crammed to remember it all. I just stumbled a bit and everything just dropped to the ground. On another teacher, whose teaching style I very much like, would repeat the same questions everyday, during her oral recitation time, just to stick those technical terms in the students' heads at the same time stick the answers to those questions that tends to show up in her exams. She would always ask those questions everyday, just for her students to register, recall and remember the words. But despite her effort only few pays much attention, unfortunately. And it was only later then that I realized that she was letting us memorize the term but understand the meaning behind it. Because when I asked a fellow classmate,about some things related to that teacher's lesson, who was my classmate too under that subject, he can still remember the meaning but not the term used.

All in all, I do not say that going to school only stresses students and kills their brain cells thus it is bad for them. Nor do I say that one should never go to school because teachers are incompetent. No. I only wish to convey to teachers,especially the grade school and high school faculty, what I've learned so far and my wish that they should pass down the correct technique of studying to their students and using those techniques to give them the ability to remember their lessons and and the ability to never forget them for the next decade or  more and to the students, to also take the initiative to even use their imagination to remember, and not memorize, everything they've learned. Because despite the teachers' efforts to let you remember, if you yourself do not wish to remember, nothing will happen and you'll forget it all. And as my last message for this day, to the teacher who told me, and insisted, humans are using 100% of their brain already when I asked 'how many percent does an average human use in the current generation?', Ma'am, how wrong you are. lol

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