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The thing is: school is nothing like the real world. It teaches you how to deal with school. School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the w
by ef4 15y ago
The thing is: school is nothing like the real world. It teaches you how to deal with school.
School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the work has any real point, there's no source of purpose other than pure social approval, and everybody is either the same age or an authority figure.
The strategies you use for dealing with difficult people in the real world are completely different from what you have to do in school. Same goes for how to find friends, or how to decide what to do.
That's precisely why everyone is always saying "it will get better after you get out of high school". Because the conditions in school are not at all representative of the rest of your life.
- eru 15y ago> [...] and everybody is either the same age or an authority figure. At least nominally. Plenty of teachers turn into laughing stock.
- vacri 15y agoJust because high school is unpleasant for some and it will get better for them afterwards, does not mean none of the work has any real point, or that you learn nothing.
- base698 15y ago"School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the work has any real point" Of course it has a point: learning. Whether it is successful in that end is up for debate :)
- xixi77 15y agoThis is so very true.