talking these ideas out

What has struck me more about My Ishmael was how the tribes before lived better than we do now, and that people just for power took over and changed everything. Especially with the school system. Everything that Ishmael says is a totally different perspective than how I have seen things. I don't exactly agree or disagree with anything I just think it's a really good way of seeing things, because I don't really know. Even though many things he says are very true and I understand where he gets it from. I guess it could be applied to the real world by seeing things in a different way and maybe try to change in what we think would be better for us. When I told my mom about Ishmael's thoughts about the school system, she didn't think that way at all, she likes the schools and thinks that everything we learn is very important.

Dialectic Jornal

School daze II
quote: Kids will learn anything they want to learn, anything they have a use for. But to make them learn things they don't have any use for, you have to send them to school. That's why we need schools. We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.
----> This is so true. I have not known a person my whole life who has complained about what we learn at school isn't going to be useful at all for the rest of our lives. I personally don't really remember what I was taught last year, I probably couldn't really explain what I was taught last semester. I had never really thought we were right in a way, that most of the things we learn aren't going to be useful because it doesn't make sense. Every thing has a purpose or should have a purpose. Maybe school does have a purpose, it makes us more mature and we go through many experiences that are going to help us in the real world. Many of us at school go through the motions and do what we have to do to get a good grade on a test but after the test it totally disappears from our minds because we have no use for it anymore. I still don't understand why would they make us do this for so many years?