Still haven't finished reading this and all the painful memories came back from middle school. Not math (although it too wasn't a fun experience) but art. For f

Still haven't finished reading this and all the painful memories came back from middle school. Not math (although it too wasn't a fun experience) but art. For four years we had a teacher that thought music and visual arts by dictating. For 45 minutes we would write down everything word for word. Then after a few weeks she would ask us broad questions and we'd have to recite everything back to her. I still remember (I'm almost 30 now) rote learning from my notebook, walking around the house, repeating those stupid sentences in my head, memorising descriptions of works of art I've never seen, painting techniques I've never witnessed, music I've never heard. Wow, just talking about it makes me angry, makes me want to to choke the bitch's neck. Sadly, that's the state of schools in Croatia, people equate schools with rote learning and memorising. You have to do it to get into a good university and get a good job. Who will create those jobs? No wonder the country is in the shitter.